Our Mission for a Youth Cultural Arts Center is to “collaborate with non-profit organizations to create a safe, accessible place for youth to self-express through art that reflects the diversity of our community.” We plan to accomplish this through continued renovations of our building and by making our flexible spaces free to art organizations that make the arts accessible to youth. We are already hosting winter/spring programming and a summer camp led by Djapo Cultural Arts Institute. This summer, we will again welcome an arts internship program (Art Works) led by the Center for Art Inspired Learning. We are currently partnering with Case Western Reserve University’s service learning classes from The Weather Head School of Business and the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, to collect community data and create a model for sustainable arts programming. We are also hosting a Baldwin Wallace University Art Management and Entrepreneurship intern, and engaging with a number of area youth arts organizations on further collaborations. If you are an art organization, a local artist, or someone from the community that is interested in learning more about potential partnership or volunteering with us, we invite you to reach out!
