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 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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Mentor artists in our Visual Arts programs met at the Youth in Arts office recently to explore the incredible art materials donated by Pierre and Maureen Guidetti. We engaged in “plork,” a word invented by the artist Corita Kent who believed play and work belonged together. Experimenting as a group produced fresh ideas
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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.
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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