With support from the California Arts Council, City Hearts: Kids Say Yes to the Arts will offer FRESH FOCUS PHOTOGRAPHY: a direct learning, culturally relevant, literacy-based course. Beginning & Advanced classes are held 2x/week, 1.5 hrs. each over the school year at Emerson & Roosevelt Elementary, and Whaley Middle Schools, Title 1 schools in Compton. Taught by a professional artist, highly experienced in working with public school youth, the program will serve 59, 3rd–8th grade students.
City Hearts offers year-round, weekly in-school and afterschool arts programs in Dance, Guitar & Songwriting, Acting, Drawing & Mixed Media Arts, Photography, and 2D Design & Printmaking. These classes are held on the campuses of Title I schools and at local community resource centers, all at no cost to students and their families.