Youth in arts
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Youth in Arts is a non-profit organization that provides visual and performing arts
instruction to public and private school students and enriches the community with cultural events. Youth in Arts has been providing arts education to students in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1970, with a concentration in Marin
and Sonoma
counties. It is based in San Rafael
, Ca. The Artists in Schools program offers schools supplies and help with integrating art into lesson plans. These lessons from different artists include many different asspects of arts education. One example is a dance professional teaching hip-hop to elementary school
kids as part of a physical education
program, or a musician teaching kindergarteners songs, or an artist teaching middle school
kids to draw the perfectly defined muscle in science class. It seems to be working.
An independent evaluation of the Artists in Schools program, funded by a grant from the California Arts Council
, found that three-quarters of the students participating showed a more positive attitude toward learning in an arts-inclusive classroom. Usually, schools pay what they can afford to, up to the full cost of $4,500 USD.
In addition to the Artists in Schools program, Youth in Arts operates a Youth in Arts Presents, a series that brings 25 performances to thousands of Marin and Sonoma county students; VSA arts, Vision Strength and Accessibility (formerly called Very Special Arts) a special-needs art education program that serves 500 students ages 3 to 21; 'Til Dawn, a teen a cappella
program, and the Italian Street Painting Festival, which celebrated its 14th anniversary this year http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/03/05/NBGGC58DOH1.DTL. For the Italian Street Painting Festival, which takes place in front of Mission San Rafael Arcangel
, hundreds of Madonnari (street painters) transform the streets of San Rafael into a color-splashed gallery for 60,000 visitors each year.http://www.youthinarts.org/pages/italian.htm It usually takes place the first or second weekend in June. It is one of the largest street painting festivals of its kind in the country.
Performing arts
The performing arts are those forms art which differ from the plastic arts insofar as the former uses the artist's own body, face, and presence as a medium, and the latter uses materials such as clay, metal or paint which can be molded or transformed to create some physical art object...
instruction to public and private school students and enriches the community with cultural events. Youth in Arts has been providing arts education to students in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1970, with a concentration in Marin
Marin County, California
Marin County is a county located in the North San Francisco Bay Area of the U.S. state of California, across the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco. As of 2010, the population was 252,409. The county seat is San Rafael and the largest employer is the county government. Marin County is well...
and Sonoma
Sonoma County, California
Sonoma County, located on the northern coast of the U.S. state of California, is the largest and northernmost of the nine San Francisco Bay Area counties. Its population at the 2010 census was 483,878. Its largest city and county seat is Santa Rosa....
counties. It is based in San Rafael
San Rafael, California
San Rafael is a city and the county seat of Marin County, California, United States. The city is located in the North Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area...
, Ca. The Artists in Schools program offers schools supplies and help with integrating art into lesson plans. These lessons from different artists include many different asspects of arts education. One example is a dance professional teaching hip-hop to elementary school
Elementary school
An elementary school or primary school is an institution where children receive the first stage of compulsory education known as elementary or primary education. Elementary school is the preferred term in some countries, particularly those in North America, where the terms grade school and grammar...
kids as part of a physical education
Physical education
Physical education or gymnastics is a course taken during primary and secondary education that encourages psychomotor learning in a play or movement exploration setting....
program, or a musician teaching kindergarteners songs, or an artist teaching middle school
Middle school
Middle School and Junior High School are levels of schooling between elementary and high schools. Most school systems use one term or the other, not both. The terms are not interchangeable...
kids to draw the perfectly defined muscle in science class. It seems to be working.
An independent evaluation of the Artists in Schools program, funded by a grant from the California Arts Council
California Arts Council
The California Arts Council is a state agency based in Sacramento. Its eleven council members are appointed by the Governor and the state Legislature...
, found that three-quarters of the students participating showed a more positive attitude toward learning in an arts-inclusive classroom. Usually, schools pay what they can afford to, up to the full cost of $4,500 USD.
In addition to the Artists in Schools program, Youth in Arts operates a Youth in Arts Presents, a series that brings 25 performances to thousands of Marin and Sonoma county students; VSA arts, Vision Strength and Accessibility (formerly called Very Special Arts) a special-needs art education program that serves 500 students ages 3 to 21; 'Til Dawn, a teen a cappella
A cappella
A cappella music is specifically solo or group singing without instrumental sound, or a piece intended to be performed in this way. It is the opposite of cantata, which is accompanied singing. A cappella was originally intended to differentiate between Renaissance polyphony and Baroque concertato...
program, and the Italian Street Painting Festival, which celebrated its 14th anniversary this year http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/03/05/NBGGC58DOH1.DTL. For the Italian Street Painting Festival, which takes place in front of Mission San Rafael Arcangel
Mission San Rafael Arcángel
Mission San Rafael Arcángel was founded in 1817 as a medical asistencia of the Mission San Francisco de Asís as a hospital to treat sick Native Americans of the Bay Area, making it Alta California's first sanitarium. The weather was much better in the North Bay than in San Francisco, and helped...
, hundreds of Madonnari (street painters) transform the streets of San Rafael into a color-splashed gallery for 60,000 visitors each year.http://www.youthinarts.org/pages/italian.htm It usually takes place the first or second weekend in June. It is one of the largest street painting festivals of its kind in the country.