Inner-City Arts

Learning and achieving through the Arts (lata):foundational program offered at Inner-City Arts, providing elementary and middle school students learning in the visual and performing Arts over multi-week sessions in 2021-2022 facilitated remotely through distance learning and in the spring term returning back to in-person through our residency model on school campuses. The core objective focus is social and emotional learning competencies, 21st-century skills, art skills, and mental wellbeing.

Work of art:work of art taps into the strengths of the diverse and vibrant youth of los angeles and supports their journey to assume their rightful place as drivers of the creative economy of California, the nation, and the world. We support the development of an abundant supply of new talent in the creative industries. Youth are paid interns of Inner-City Arts and participate in mandatory year-round activities that develop them as future professional visual, media, and or performing artists. Work of art interns are paid to create content for Inner-City Arts in their respective disciplines. That content becomes part of the permanent collection. The pilot program with eight students began in 2013. Now established with year-round activities, work of art employed 19 students in fy 2021-2022, produced 16 graduates, with 99% of the graduates enrolling in a 4-year college or university or community college.

Out of school program: institutesout-of-school programs provide 6-10-week workshops in the visual and performing Arts to children and youth of area middle and high schools. Goals are to provide Arts instruction for youth to further their study in the Arts, leading to skill development, community development and parent, family and adult services: career and work force development. Programs are offered during after school hours and on weekends for 2-6 hours per week and include:(1) visual and performing Arts institutes: serving middle and high school students during the week after school hours and on the weekends with intensive year-long study in a chosen art form. Workshops offered: theater Arts, animation, dance choreogrphy & production, stand-upcomedy, graphic design, digital photography, visual Arts, film.program service accomplishments:opportunities for community-building, learning and fun. Workshopsengage parents, in exploring and creating art together

All other programs: -inner-city Arts continued to develop the social enterprise program. The social enterprise element of programs was piloted in 2020-21 as an extension of work of art to tap into the strengths of our graduates and support their journey to assume their rightful place as drivers of the creative economy of California, the nation, and the world. The young professionals provide creative services for hire, for outside clients, under the direction of Inner-City Arts mentors and teaching artists. While employed as "enterprisers," the emerging artists receive training and build skills that support the development of an abundant and diverse supply of new talent into the creative industries. In 2021-22, Inner-City Arts successfully employed and offered continued training to 13 woa alumni. In their post-secondary portfolio development, enterprisers completed 3 commissioned works for local corporations and community organizations engaging in over 400 work hours collectively. -the professional development institute provides training to in-service and pre-service teachers, educators, parents/guardians and served over 250 participants in a program significantly impacted by the transition back to school and competing priorities in schools to support recovery from the learning slides and decreased enrollments across all schools. Facilitation for professional development and adult education occurred via zoom and in-person when safely possible. The in-service components of the program serve teachers from primarily los angeles county. Professional development for educators demonstrates how it is to an educator's advantage to fully integrate the Arts into teaching and learning practices. We address social-emotional learning best practices and show how creative critical-thinking skills in the Arts are transferable to every learning area. Most importantly, professional development with Inner-City Arts demonstrates how the Arts can serve as a vehicle for increasing and sustaining learner engagement across the academic spectrum.