SAN RAFAEL, Calif., June 2, 2026 — Youth in Arts, a leader in accessible arts education for youth throughout Marin County, today announced the return of the Here and Queer: LGBTQIA+ Pride Month Spotlight Show, an annual exhibition celebrating queer identity and creative expression. The show will be on view at the YIA Gallery in […]
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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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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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In the art room and on the dance floor, young artists are craving sensory rich experiences more than ever before. Youth in Arts is supporting students with programming that allows them to express themselves and share their voices through music, movement, and visual art. “We’ve known all along that students use art to process what
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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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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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