We are excited to offer arts programming that supports students’ mental health and wellness!

Arts Impact Initiative: Creativity, Joy & Wellness is an arts-based intervention model addressing student mental health in schools through the arts.

Young Audiences professional teaching artists delivering

  • Three (3) exciting performances
  • 12 days of engaging workshops
  • Transformational long-term residencies
  • Professional learning
  • Fun community and family arts events

The program aligns with CDC and WHO research showing that effective intervention models include measures that:

  • Foster a positive school climate
  • Increase students’ social and emotional safety
  • Engage families

Arts Impact Initiative: Creativity, Joy & Wellness is made possible by the generous support of our partner, Mental Health America.

Young Audiences Artists who are Inspiring Creativity, Joy, and Wellness

Performances

Musiquita

Music

Segunda Quimbamba Folkloric Center

Afro-Puerto Rican Folkloric Music, Songs, and Dance

Soul Steps

Dance & Movement

Queen Nur Telling a Story

Karen “Queen Nur” Abdul-Malik

Literary Arts

Bobby Beetcut

Bobby Beetcut

Music

TAHIRA - Folktale Fun

Yearing to Learn

Theater

Queen Nur Telling a Story

Hip Hop Fundamentals

Dance

Bobby Beetcut

Jeannine Osayande and Dunya Performing Arts Company,

West African Drum, Dance, Song, Storytelling, and Masquerade Traditions

TAHIRA - Folktale Fun

TAHIRA

Theater

Queen Nur Telling a Story

Junk Jam Band

Music

Workshops

Bobby Beetcut

Bobby Beetcut

Music

Marck 'Flaco' Best Image

Marck "Flaco" Best

Latin Dance

laura-marchese

Laura Marchese

Dance & Movement

Erik James Montgomery

Erik James Montgomery

Media and Visual Arts

A white woman with brown curly hair wearing a red bucket hat and a red shirt.

Kate Marie Sclavi

Multi-Arts & Visual Arts

April Zay

Visual Arts

Bobby Beetcut

Maurice Chestnut

Tap Dance

A white woman with brown curly hair wearing a red bucket hat and a red shirt.

Summer Dawn

Literary Arts & Theater

Queen Nur Telling a Story

Hip Hop Fundamentals

Dance

Soul Steps

Maxine Lyle

Dance & movement

A white woman with brown curly hair wearing a red bucket hat and a red shirt.

Molly Gaston Johnson

Visual Arts

Queen Nur Telling a Story

Junk Jam Band

Music

Bobby Beetcut

Carl Brister

Music

A white woman with brown curly hair wearing a red bucket hat and a red shirt.

Hector Morales

Music

Queen Nur Telling a Story

Tasha Grant

Theatre

Bobby Beetcut

Jeannine Osayande and Dunya Performing Arts Company

West African Drum, Dance, Song, Storytelling, and Masquerade Traditions

Professional Learning

Queen Nur Telling a Story

Karen “Queen Nur” Abdul-Malik

Literary Arts

laura-marchese

Laura Marchese

Dance & Movement

Soul Steps

Dance & Movement

Bobby Beetcut

Erik James Montgomery

Media and Visual Arts

A white woman with brown curly hair wearing a red bucket hat and a red shirt.

Kate Marie Sclavi

Multi-Arts & Visual Arts

A white woman with brown curly hair wearing a red bucket hat and a red shirt.

Molly Gaston Johnson

Visual Arts

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