Who We Are
Youth Arts Alliance provides healing centered arts workshops to young people across Michigan. We consistently redefine what it means to invest in communities, by listening to and taking direction from the young people we serve. YAA’s cohort of teaching artists responds to the visions and creative aspirations of young people, meeting them where they are.
YAA has served over ten thousand youth and families across Michigan with the support of over a hundred dedicated local teaching artists. Youth Arts Alliance firmly believes that access to high-quality arts experiences and education is a human right. We’re committed to sharing healing-centered arts practices with youth artists, their families, and surrounding communities with local teaching artists’ dedicated support and expertise. YAA programming invites connection, dialogue, and empathy, bringing us towards healthier, more just, collaborative communities.
What We Do
Since 2013, we have served over 10,000 youth and families throughout the state of Michigan. Our ethos put arts and supportive relationships with skilled teaching artists at the center of individual healing, social and emotional growth and community connectedness.
YAA creates space young people need to explore their complex and shifting identities, interests and values through high quality arts programming that across a myriad of creative practices. Continued engagement in YAA programming highlights their expanding identities as artists, writers and performers. Well-vetted and emerging research indicates the far reaching benefits of experiences in the arts across the lifespan.
