Intensive Arts Mentorship
Each Emerging Artist will receive a $15/hr stipend for their selection and participation.
Apply for an intensive young artist mentorship!
For any questions contact Program Manager, Barbara Yupit Gomez, at barbara@youthinarts.org or call (415)457-4878.
Youth in Arts is passionate about and dedicated to providing access, equal opportunity and reasonable accommodation for young artists experiencing disabilities in our programs. Our building is ADA compliant, and we encourage interested students to reach out to Program Manager, Barbara Yupit Gomez at barbara@youthinarts.org to inquire after or request reasonable accommodation.
Meet the I AM 2025 Mentor Artists
Fred Alvarado
Fredericko Alvarado is a project based artist working through drawing, painting, public art, video, and curatorial practices. Their work revolves building with communities in the creations of site specific works. Alvarado engages sites through observation, research, and connection to local centers, organizations, and individuals who negotiate given spaces. This allows them the ability to experience, learn, and decipher differences and commonalities between the diverse personalities and cultures of this beautiful world.
Keena Azania Romano
Keena Azania Romano exercises her creative mind through the
exploration of diverse artistic mediums as a way to engage and
understand individual and collective purpose. Romano received her
BFA from Pomona College then returned to her native Bay Area to
pursue a career in the Arts. Her Murals can be spotted from
Sacramento, California, to Richmond, Virginia to Oaxaca, Mexico.
Inspired by cultural practices, Romano combines spirituality with
urban experience to produce work that draws upon the quest for a
greater understanding of intersectional beauty in this world. She fuses
traditional native arts with contemporary inner-city techniques to
reflect a new language that encourages the healing and
empowerment process between community members and their
environments. Her style is described as “vibrant and insightful”.
She aspires to travel and create a colorful trail of art by exploring the
modern Diaspora based on her multi-ethnic experience.
