Grantee Database
Alliance For Youth Achievement
Grant Year
2017-18
Grant Program
Artists in Communities
Award Amount
$5,625.00
Project Description
With support from the California Arts Council, Alliance For Youth Achievement will implement Fountain Alley Shadow Casting/ Living Murals: A month-long series of Friday night public art pop-up workshops, informal dance lessons, and collaborative community performances. This project activates a currently uninviting public space, and addresses the need to create a safer downtown with more free public art activities that engage, connect and inform a diverse range of people.
Organization Summary
We operate a STEAM program at Renaissance at Fisher Middle School. The STEAM program includes Summer and School Break Art & Design Thinking Camps and the After School STEAM program for youth in East San Jose. Our Youth Leader program engages teens in developing leadership and pre-employment skills, while also building creative confidence as they lead activities at STEAM Workshops implemented throughout San Jose and act as near-peer mentors in our STEAM programs. We engage a variety of local artists/arts educators to facilitate our workshops to ensure our youth are exposed to a wide variety of artistic mediums and styles.
Our goal is to provide high quality educational enrichn=ment programs, public workshops, and arts education opportunities at little or no cost to the high risk, low income and under-served communities in East San Jose.
Organization
Alliance for Youth Achievement
Address
PO Box 56178
San Jose
95156
County
Santa Clara
Region
Bay Area – Other
Phone
(408) 509-1168
Congressional District
California's 18th congressional district
State Assembly District
District CA-25
State Senate District
District CA-15
