Arts Resources For Youth Artists
and Audiences
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"You know that children are
growing up when they start asking questions that have answers." -
John J. Plomp
Cross Reference Pages
Empowering
Youth Through the Arts
Coming Up Taller -
The Coming Up Taller Initiative is a private sector patrons program with the
President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanties. This website offers a
nice collection of links to resources dealing with improving the lives of
children through arts education programs.
Youth Voice Collaborative
- The goals of this interesting Boston-Based organization include the: Strengthening
of the ability of youth to take leadership in their communities and the
enabling of young people to use media to amplify their voices. This is a very
informative website offering a plethora of information on their uniwue
programs and projects. 
Funding for
Young Artists
Princess Grace
Foundation - National in scope, The Foundation's
program is dedicated to identifying and assisting young talent in theater,
dance and film through grants in the form of scholarships, apprenticeships and
fellowships.
Providing Access to the
Arts for our Youth
Artreach
Philadelphia - nonprofit organization
which joins the arts and special audiences, including the physically and
mentally challenged and the economically disadvantaged in the Delaware Valley.
Enjoy the Arts - START
- Cincinnati program providing discount tickets to
students. Nice calendar provided.
Kaleidoscope Youth Arts
- Kaleidoscope bills itself as: "the fun, affordable
way for Boston's teens to discover the performing arts!"
Young Audiences A
network of 35 chapters and affiliated organizations creating community
collaborations for the arts and education. Great organization, less than
stellar website. Nevertheless links are provided to many chapters and there is
a nice collection of stories of projects which have had an impact on the lives
of children and their community.
PapaInk
- "PapaInk is an international children’s art archive. Our archival
work highlights the socially critical efforts of organizations and individuals
who sponsor and enable children’s artistic endeavors. PapaInk was born out
of three fundamental insights. First, children's art is largely devalued on a
socio-historical level (witness the lack of deep historical archives); second,
children’s artistic vision is a vital and redeeming element of the human
experience (witness the powerful responses evoked by children’s depictions
of the world as it is and as they wish it to be); and third, the act of
bringing together the collections and holdings of disparate organizations and
individuals greatly increases the historical, aesthetic and social value--and
standing--of children’s art."
Youth Arts Festivals
and
Organizations
Greenlight
Youth Festival of the Arts - The
Greenlight Youth Festival of the Arts Society is a non-profit charitable
Society in Canada, based in Vancouver, British Columbia. The Society was
founded for the purpose of developing new and youth talent in the media arts.
The website profiles a number of festivals sponsored by the society.
LOUD
Media Festival of Youth Culture and the Arts
- Loud is an Australian website offering a gallery of art created by
Australian youth in many disciplines from film to creative writing. The
site is particularly well designed from the graphic perspective.
The Ohio
Governor's Youth Art Exhibition -
The Ohio Governor's Youth Art Exhibition, is dedicated to the
educational and artistic advancement of talented young people in the
state of Ohio. The exhibition is open to all of Ohio's 1,105 high schools,
both public and private, chartered by the State of Ohio Department of
Education. This website provides a nice example of official state support for
achievement in arts education. The website is well designed and includes a
very nice gallery of the art of the competition winners.
YOUTH
IN ARTS - San Rafael,
California - Youth in Arts is a San Rafael, California - based non-profit
organization that provides visual and performing arts experiences and
instruction in the arts to schools throughout Marin County. Founded in 1970,
Youth in Arts serves more than 30,000 children each year through its five
educational programs. Their Youth in Arts Italian Street Painting Festival,
transforms the streets in front of Mission San Rafael Arcangel into a
color-splashed asphalt gallery. This is accomplished through the involvement
of hundreds of professional and student Madonnari (street painters).
Very attractive website.
Youth
Symphonies and Music Camps - Hosted
by the Metropolitan Youth Symphony, Portland, Oregon, this is a very
comprehensive link library of Youth Orchestras.
