Jennifer Carroll Abssy
MORE THAN A FEELING: What Our Creative Youth Programs Are Really About
Posted by Sep 16, 2014
Jennifer Carroll Abssy
Inner-City Arts is now in its 25th year of offering high quality arts experiences to youth. Our programs include professional development for teachers, schools and university programs, school day arts programming for K-8, and out of school programming for grades 6th grade and above. These Middle and High School Institute programs have grown from offering 5 art forms for 120 students in 2009 to today offering 15 to 22 workshops three times a year, to 600-800 urban youth. Here is what some of our Institute youth say about our programming:
“They don’t judge you here… I can be my own person.” Angelica G.
“I can count on so many people here.” Sandy A.
“These people can benefit me a lot.” Gabriel U.
“I feel loved…” Michael M.
Youth in our Institutes engage in high quality arts experiences in multiple forms such as Graphic Design, Visual Arts, Ceramics, Dance and Choreography, Acting, Spoken Word, Stand-up Comedy, Animation, Digital Photography, Guitar and Documentary Film - all located on our state of the art campus in downtown Los Angeles, near Skid Row.
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