D.C. exhibition asks, what is it like to be a teen right now?

What is it like to be a teen right now? That question is at the heart of an exhibition by the Museum of Contemporary American Teenagers in partnership with American University in Washington D.C.

Some of the artists affiliated with the museum were also invited to create during the recent Smithsonian Folklife Festival, where the theme was youth and the future of culture. But what they learned there is that some people don’t want to see the full picture.

NPR’s Elizabeth Blair reports.