Angelean Johnson

Using Our Voices: Young Girls in Architecture

In 2022, while in third grade, nine girls participated in the architecture residency at Laurel Dell Elementary School in San Rafael. Working with mentors from UC Berkeley’s Y-PLAN and Youth in Arts, their class learned about design, scale, and structure while taking on challenges posed to them by community leaders. Over three years the children

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Creators, Innovators, and Civic Leaders—Now and in the Future

Creators, Innovators, and Civic Leaders —Now and in the Future Author: Shirl Buss Each year—in collaboration with Dominican University’s Center for Community Engagement our Youth in Arts / Y-PLAN team co-creates an imaginative curriculum designed to encourage fourth graders at Laurel Dell Elementary to explore pathways to higher education while cultivating their creativity and capacity

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Arts Unite Us Outside the Lines Showcase

Collaborative artwork by students participating in YIA’s Arts Unite Us program. For more than 25 years, Youth in Arts has been the only consistent arts education provider in Marin County’s Special Day Classrooms (SDCs). Through our Arts Unite Us program, we provide Teaching Artists in visual arts, music and dance to nearly 30 self-contained classrooms.

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Artist Orin Carpenter

C Street: Untitled – Summer Visual Arts Intensive for Marin Teens on Social Justice

Are you a teen who is passionate about equity and raising awareness in your community? Join Youth in Arts’ summer mentorship program for emerging high school artists!  Participants will work with Mentor Artist Orin Carpenter to create a collaborative public artwork to be placed in San Rafael’s Terra Linda community. The five-week project will center

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