Youth Arts Alliance’s Healing Centered Arts Education Enters The Muskegon Juvenile Transition Center
By: Christiana Castillo This summer, the Muskegon Juvenile Transition Center (MJTC) became a space for healing and transformation in collaboration with Youth Arts Alliance. For the first time ever, YAA facilitated their healing centered arts education to youth at the...
Experiments in Photography: Pinhole Cameras and Sun Prints
In June 2021, Youth Arts Alliance dove back into in person programming, beginning at the Monroe County Youth Center. We implemented a week long pinhole photography and cyanotype residency, with longtime teaching artist Isaac Wingfield and YAA's Creative Director, Lucy...
Maker Space: YAA Artists Make Miniature Worlds
https://youtu.be/0i-MkHJbBJ0 Skate Park, Ian Bradley, 2021 This spring, students at Western Career Prep, an alternative high school in Jackson, MI, participated in a workshop called “Maker Space.” In the workshop, they explored the medium of miniatures. The artists...
Staff Tribute: Director of Programming & Evaluation, Jasdeep Kler
This week Youth Arts Alliance is sending Jasdeep Kler, our invaluable Director of Programming and Evaluation off into the world. Jasdeep is a 2020 graduate of the University of Michigan School of Public Health where he earned his master’s in global health...
Art Was My Lifeline: Supporting Teens Through the Youth Arts Alliance
By Kyle Daniel-Bey I’ve been interested in art my entire life. My love for drawing began as a child, when I took art classes in elementary school. Later, I was introduced and devoted myself to creative writing, poetry and spoken word. It wasn’t until my...