Grantee Database
IMAGINE BUS PROJECT
Grant Year
2017-18
Grant Program
JUMP StArts - County and Community Facilities
Award Amount
$42,500.00
Project Description
With support from the California Arts Council, The Imagine Bus Project will deliver cross-cultural learning experiences to 300 incarcerated youth in the Bay Area, ages 14-18, using art as the tool for positive relationship building and problem solving as they reenter their communities. Of those youth, 15 will be matched with a staff case manager to set and achieve life-domain behavioral goals, AND a community-based artist mentor to coach the design and execution of socially-engaged art.
Organization Summary
TIBP delivers high-quality arts education and life-skill building through two programs: Youth Studio and Arts on the Outs.
Youth Studio provides weekly classes at five Bay Area juvenile detention facilities, using visual arts to build essential life-skills for justice-involved youth. Students are guided through evidence-based curriculum by trained Teaching Artists, focusing on using art to build empathy, problem-solving, communication, critical thinking, and refusal skills. They then engage in hands-on art-making that combines innovative techniques in mixed media designed to be completed in four sessions to optimize the sense of accomplishment to facilitate youth turnover.
Arts on the Outs (AOTO) is a continuation program that augments the spark created in Youth Studio and provides individualized case management and mentoring support upon release. Youth are matched with a Case Manager and Art Mentor who helps them ideate and execute their own work for community exhibition.
Organization
IMAGINE BUS PROJECT
Address
1012 TORNEY AVE
SAN FRANCISCO
94129-1704
County
San Francisco
Region
Bay Area – San Francisco
Phone
(415) 675-1104
Congressional District
California's 12th congressional district
State Assembly District
District 19
State Senate District
District 11
