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 Abington Art Center –
Fostering Creativity
is an after-school program serving Philadelphia counties that brings
at-risk foster care children, ages 7-18, together with an art
therapist for a hands-on art experience. The Art Center provides a
neutral, safe
environment where the children are encouraged to express
themselves--often addressing unspoken concerns and struggles with
identity and abandonment issues.Academy of Community Music – Crescendo Music Program provides at least 1,200 at-risk pre-school children in Pennsylvania with 30 weekly music classes and provides their families with parental involvement materials and activities. Art in the School – The After School Art Program is a 12-week program that serves 50 at-risk children, grades K-5. The pilot program will be at an elementary school in Albuquerque.  The program
will use Art in the School's successful curriculum encompassing art
history, aesthetics, criticism, and art making. The program is free
to the students. ArtsQuest – The at-risk youths at the Northampton County Juvenile Justice Center (NJJC) in Pennsylvania are working on Phase 3 of their Video/Mural Project. The youths will create a video and mural featuring prominent people in their community who have overcome adversity. The program combines traditional art, video technology and teamwork to help transform the lives of youths at the NCJJC. 
The B-smart program provides quality instruction in the traditional
arts of pottery and painting and the high tech arts of digital
photography, graphic design, and videography to 135 at-risk teens. Arts Street – Arts Street's Summer Program Youth Environmental Artists offers a comprehensive arts program teaching at-risk youths artistic building practices using renewable resources, as well as sharing their arts knowledge with others through media communication and classroom educational process. Students will gain knowledge and critical-thinking skills related to scientific research, the arts, environmental issues and creative problem solving. The seven-week summer program will serve up to 34 at-risk youths in the Denver area.  Asian Arts Initiative – Youth Arts Workshop is an after-school education program for at least 300 at-risk Asian American teenagers in Philadelphia that engages in art-making courses in mural painting, video-making, writing, performance, and public presentations to share their newly created artwork with the general public. Aspen Film – The Latino Youth Documentary Project is a three-week summer workshop for at-risk Latino youths in the Colorado Roaring Fork Valley. The workshop ran for 15 full days in July and recruited 15-20 teens, ages 12-18, to attend the workshop free of charge. The youths produced short personal films based on their experiences in the Valley. Many of the films are showcased in festivals, making them available for programs through other youth-service 
organizations in the Valley, and entering them in student film
festivals.The Bauen Camp's summer program was attended by 12 Denver area at-risk youths. The campers took part in a range of art-based leadership development and problem-solving activities, as well as intensive workshops in artistic disciplines that included painting, drawing, dance, theater, creative writing, poetry, puppetry, book making, film making, music and storytelling. The Big Picture Alliance – partners with Murrell Dobbins High School to provide 25-30 at-risk students from Philadelphia an academic year long and summer internship program of intensive film apprenticeship activities and workshops. The students create film diaries of their inner lives. 
The creation of each of these films involves the youths in all
aspects of production including storyline and dialogue creation,
camera operation, lighting design, sound engineering, set design,
wardrobe design, theatrical make-up, and computer editing.Boyer College of Music & Dance – Temple University’s Community Music Scholars Program provides a comprehensive program of jazz and classical music instruction for at-risk Philadelphia school children. A Modern Dance class was recently created, providing an additional avenue for arts interaction to 100 at-risk youths. Broad Horizons – The Summer Intensive Dance Workshop will provide six weeks of dance classes followed by a repertory performance at the end of the workshop. At least 25 at-risk students from the Gary, Indiana area will attend the classes. Classes will include Ballet, Modern, Jazz, Tap, and West African dance.  Butterfly Hope – Summer Enrichment Program serves 85-100 low income at-risk students from the Denver area. Butterfly Hope helps children, grades K-5, reach their potential by encouraging them to respectfully explore the natural world, and the creativity that lives within each of them. Calliope! Inc. – is a 5-week workshop in all aspects of musical theater for children, ages 6-18, in the Salida, Colorado area. Calliope! recently added a program enabling them to include at-risk children in their workshops. The Children's Museum of Indianapolis – The Neighbor's Starpoint Program serves more than 60 at-risk youths and families in the low-income neighborhoods that surround the museum. Programs are designed for youths, ages 6-12, and special opportunities are developed to involve the entire family. The program includes the arts, humanities and science experiences at the museum. Colorado Children's Chorale offers chorale training and performances to 800-1,000 at-risk youths in inner-city schools and community organizations in Denver through the Conservatory outreach program.  Community
Arts Center – The Chester Youth
Mural Project began in 2005 at Chester High School.
At-risk students from Chester High School and Wetherill
Middle School have worked to create a flagship mural to take the
program out of the high school and into the outdoor public sphere,
while staying connected to
the youths at the school and allowing their efforts and ideas to
drive the program.Excelsior Youth Center – is an independent residential treatment center for girls, ages 11 to 18, in Aurora, Colorado. The Music Education Program provides instruction in music history, composition, performance and technique for at least 175 at-risk girls. The girls will participate in at least two performances annually.  Fine Arts for Children & Teens – (FACT) teaches visual arts to at-risk youths who would not otherwise have access to high quality arts education programs. ARTcamp is a weekly or daily summer program that serves 530 at-risk youths from Santa Fe, ages 4-21, and takes place at public elementary schools in conjunction with other community agencies. The program takes place June thru August and offers visual-arts learning programs. Fleisher – The Community Partnership in the Arts (CPA) program provides approximately 500 at-risk youths from Philadelphia schools with access to high quality visual arts instruction taught by practicing artists. Teen Lounge is an after-school residency that provides approximately 20-30 at-risk high school youths a safe after school space to engage with one another in a positive and supportive environment.  Frequent Flyers Productions – Kids Who Fly offers classes in low-flying trapeze and aerial dance to help at-risk children, ages 10 and up from the Boulder/Longmont area, build healthy, risk-taking behavior, work constructively on self-esteem issues, and experience the unique joy of expressing themselves artistically. FrontRange Earth Force will train and provide on-going technical assistance to more than 80 teachers seeking to incorporate the arts - music, poetry, public speeches and presentations, creative design and painting - into projects that both educate at-risk students and serve the Denver communities in which the students live. The service learning program is offered to over 35 schools and 2,000 at-risk youths during the school year. The10 for 10 Challenge is a mural project for the summer of 2007. Ten youth groups from across the city will work with ten local artists to create ten murals. Indiana Repertory Theatre –  Summer Conservatory
for Youth is a four-week skill-building experience in theatre
arts for 70 at-risk children, ages 8 to 18. Classes include acting,
dance and movement, voice and diction, singing, playwriting, design,
and theatre management. The goal is to teach the children about the
processes involved in the performing arts, and to teach them how to
develop their performing and designing talent.Indianapolis Art Center – ArtReach serves at-risk children, ages 5-18, from urban neighborhoods through free after-school and Saturday  art classes.
Projects encourage the children to explore their inner selves by
developing self-expression and creativity, learning new art
techniques, and by participating in positive group interaction
through collaborative works of art.Kardon Institute of Arts Therapy – The Safe Expressions Program provides music, art and dance/movement therapy to 200 at-risk youths. Group sessions will occur at schools and community-based sites in Philadelphia for 30 weeks during the school year.  Keshet Dance Company – The Outreach Program with Incarcerated Youth provides approximately 250 at-risk youths, ages 12-18 from New Mexico, with in-school, after-school, weekend and intersession dance classes at the Youth Diagnostic and Development Center. The classes, taught by Keshet Dance Company's professional dance artists, provide youths with a rigorous fitness curriculum, and use dance as a vehicle to increase literacy, social, and problem-solving skills. Kids To The Country is a unique program which has been working to diffuse anger, violence and fear while encouraging talent in some of Nashville's most at-risk children. 
The program offers urban youths, ages 6-12, the opportunity to get
out of the city and develop a connection to nature through direct,
hands-on experience. Mural Arts Program – The Big Picture is a visual arts and mural-making program in Philadelphia. For more than 250 at-risk youths, Big Picture provides a safe haven where they can rely on the support of a caring adult instructor and the comfort of a structured environment. Students create large-scale professional quality murals, as well as produce independent art works that are placed on display and offered for sale at gallery shows. Musicopia, Inc. – Immersion in Great Music and World Cultures includes multi-part residency programs in all of the schools in the Chester-Upland School District in Delaware County. The music education program is directed to 4,128 at-risk school-age children and several hundred families.  Naropa University – The Community Art Studio is a teen after-school project that serves approximately 25 at-risk high school students per semester in the Boulder area. The program provides a safe place for students to go after school to pursue creative, constructive and self-esteem enhancing activities. National Dance Institute of New Mexico – The Residency program serves 30 communities across New Mexico.  At
least 225 at-risk children attend daily in-school dance classes,
from one to three weeks, that blend movement, basic motor skill
development, and kinesthetic learning. At the end of the program,
the children celebrate their successes with a school assembly or
theater performance.National Institute of Flamenco – Flamenco Kids Camp is a two-week flamenco intensive camp where at-risk children, ages 3-14, study all aspects of flamenco. Camp members learn about and experience flamenco through dance, song, guitar, palmas (clapping rhythms), and Cajon (percussion). The Camp culminates in a performance where the children share what they have learned. The children also see two professional Flamenco performances free of charge. New Mexico CultureNet –  Poets-in-the-Schools is a
poetry program where poets work directly in classrooms in middle
schools and high schools in
Santa Fe, Espanola, Taos, Bernalillo, and Pojoaque. Students
experience increased self-confidence, skill development in writing,
public speaking, abstract thinking and problem solving. Poets also
provide one-on-one mentoring for especially motivated students.Opera Company of Philadelphia – The Sounds of Learning program provides a complete, immersive experience in one of their mainstage operas,  culminating with a trip to The Academy of Music to see the opera they have studied so thoroughly. The entire program, for 5,000 at-risk students in grades 5-12, is offered free of charge. Partners of Delta, Montrose and Ouray – Art Partners will match 30-50 at-risk youths, ages 12-17, with a screened and trained professional artist in a three-month mentoring apprenticeship. The program includes art exhibitions and workshops. Phoenix Youth Center – The Club Unified Art Program is an independent after-school and summer arts program that works with at-risk inner-city Indiana teens to teach them to make positive choices by offering educational opportunities to improve their lives.  The program includes poetry, dance, video and visual arts,
and music production.Point Breeze Performing Arts Center (PBPAC) offers high-quality performing arts training, community development, and cultural events to help improve the quality of life in the Point Breeze 
neighborhood and throughout Philadelphia. PBPAC serves over 1,000
at-risk youths from low-income neighborhoods. Project YES provides leadership opportunities to at least 240 at-risk youths, ages 11-19, through the arts and service learning. The Youth Center provides free regularly scheduled after-school and summer arts-based programs for local youths in the Lafayette area. Classes range from creative writing and digital arts to muraling and drama and help to empower young people and assist in the development of leadership, critical-thinking, community-building, problem-solving, and artistic skills. Art in the Community programs, through workshops at neighborhood schools and community-based agencies, empower youths to create high quality pieces of public art about social issues impacting their lives. Santa Fe Opera – The Student-Produced Opera program provides an enriching multi-disciplinary arts learning experience to approximately 1,089 at-risk public school students in Northern New  Mexico,
ages 5-18, through in-school, after school, and summer projects at
participating schools. The students create their own operas and
perform them at local theaters.Settlement Music School – The Kaleidoscope Preschool Art Enrichment Program is a tuition-free arts integrated preschool for inner-city, at-risk children ages 3-5, in Philadelphia. The program includes comprehensive education, music, art, dance, and nutrition. Thorne Ecological Institute – The Thorne Natural Science School program is designed to enhance  children's
awareness of nature by providing summer courses to at-risk children,
ages 3-15. Learning takes place through hands-on, science-based,
experiential activities as children explore local prairie
grasslands, evergreen forests, and other local ecosystems. Five art
classes were offered this summer in Boulder and Littleton.Urban Arts of Indianapolis – The Stars Of Urban Life (S.O.U.L.) program is a six-week project for 20 at-risk participants, ages 13-17, that allows selected participants to earn as they learn about the arts and art business. The participants will be paired with a professional artist mentor for a six-week session. Their goal will be to produce an original work of art. Each student will prepare an exhibit or demonstration of their project at the end of the program. Urban Peak – The Spot is an award-winning downtown Denver youth center, which attracts at-risk urban youths, ages 14-24. Their mission is to help urban adolescents enjoy their youth and mature into productive adults by providing a safe, supportive nighttime place that encourages respect, creativity, education, employment, and career development. The music program includes DJ classes and break dancing. Warehouse 21 has provided close to 10 years of stimulating artistic programming for over 40,000 teenagers in a drug, alcohol and violence free environment. Their mission,  "Empowering youths to
empower themselves through the arts" is demonstrated through
workshops and performances in a variety of subjects including music,
theater, photography,media literacy, comedy, silkscreen, fashion
design and poetry. The Youth Employment Services (YES) program
offers at-risk youths in Santa Fe creative mentorship employment and
training in marketable skills. They are expanding the silkscreen
studio to reach new teens interested in design, fashion and product
development.Young Audiences of Indiana – Arts Kids provides two nine-week after-school visual arts residencies for at-risk youths, grades 3-6 at one of the Indianapolis Public Schools. Inside Arts offers hands-on residencies for at least 200 at-risk youths at the Juvenile Detention Center, which include music, dance, storytelling, visual arts, literary arts and theatre. |