Looking for ways to engage your children? Visit the free Youth in Arts Mobile Art Lab on Thursday evenings near the San Rafael Farmers Market. The Mobile Art Lab will be open from 5:15 to 6:15 p.m. Look for the red and white stand on 4th street between A and B streets. The […]
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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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Despite the challenges of the pandemic, Laurel Dell Elementary School students successfully used YIArts.COR (our digital learning platform) to create self portraits, build bridges, design library entrances and make other art from their homes and classrooms. Laurel Dell Imagines Friendship and Community runs June 10 to Sept. 10. It can be viewed at the YIA
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What can a pair of headphones do with a bottle of hand sanitizer? How can a pencil help a math test? Why is that classroom light so lonely? These were some of the questions explored by second graders at Rancho Elementary School in Novato as part of Feelings, Friends and My World Through Visual Arts.
After more than a year apart, ´ Til Dawn is about to start rehearsing in person again – and is holding auditions this Saturday for coveted spots in the award-winning teen a cappella ensemble. It’s one more way that Youth in Arts is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. “People are really excited,” said
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Youth in Arts is thrilled to welcome new board members Lorenzo Jones and Sarita Patel. Jones and Patel are consultants and entrepreneurs who bring a wealth of creativity, experience and business acumen to the board. Both have seen the value that creative thinking plays in becoming a well-rounded person – or building a
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Youth in Arts is celebrating our 50th anniversary with an online gala on this Friday, April 16 – and we have a lot to celebrate! We have served more than 1 million children since our founding. Please join us for Paint it Gold! There’s still time to get tickets for this wonderful event, which
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Despite the challenges of the pandemic, more than 90 Marin high school artists submitted work for RISING STARS, the annual showcase at Youth in Arts. The exhibition features outstanding drawings, paintings, sculpture, mixed media, photography and other works from the best high school art students in Marin. It can be viewed virtually on our
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Our Creative Community is Youth in Arts’ newest youth exhibition, featured in both a 3-dimensional virtual format and as a window display with artwork created by TK through 5th grade students from San Rafael City Schools District. The exhibition is the culmination of a residency in which Youth in Arts reached more than 3,000 students
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We are thrilled to have community partners like Savoir Faire! Recently President Pierre-Yann Guidetti donated beautiful Italian Fabriano sketchbooks and Austrian CretaColor pencil sets for 250 young artists in our programs. Fabriano is an old Italian company that changed the world with its invention of modern cotton paper. It once served great artists like Michelangelo
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