Mint Artists Guild, a Detroit nonprofit that empowers Detroit’s creative youth, has opened its first exhibit at the Detroit Historical Museum.

In a popular Detroit neighborhood, one special nonprofit is teaching students how to make art a career.

The Mint Artists Guild is giving Detroit teens a platform to showcase their visual art skills. "Mint fills a hole in the Detroit arts and nonprofit scene, which has many youth organizations focused on dance, music, theater and writing. Until now, none concentrated on visual and digital arts, or on creative career paths," organizers write. Mint recruits in several Detroit Public Schools high schools and has artists who attend Cass Tech, Renaissance, Detroit School of Arts and Western International. Our teens attend those schools as well as Henry Ford Academy, Community High School in Ann Arbor, Ferndale High School and several private or charter schools.