Inner-City Arts

Learning and achieving through the Arts (lata):program serving students include instructional day classes in the visual and performing Arts, provided over multi-week sessions. Lata is a sequential 7-8 week course of instruction in the visual and performing Arts for grades k-8 students of 26 low-performing schools for 2019. Through Arts learning, lata students demonstrate improved levels of art skills, english proficiency, and increase their learning potential in all subject areas. Project activities are also designed to build arts-infused communities where the Arts are integrated into the lives of all educational participants, including students, teachers, administrators and parents.2019 lata service: 4,952 students, 185 teachers

Parent, family and adult services:(1) parents/family workshops: families have the opportunity to participate in workshops that include specific instruction in art and other areas of learning that support their children's progress in school. Within this instruction, parents experience the possibilities for language development through the Arts and learn how to support their child's learning;(2) culminations: art sessions for both lata and out-of-school programs culminate with student performances, exhibitions and screenings taking place at school sites and including arts-learning workshops for teachers, staff and parents;(3) summer Arts workshops for parents: 2-hr workshops provide opportunities for community-building, learning and fun. Workshops engage parents, in exploring and creating art together. (4) audience for performances: throughout the year, families are brought to Inner-City Arts to experience perfromances in the rosenthal theater. Performances of student and professional artists engage familieis and the community in Arts learning and cultural sharting;2019 service for parent, family and adult services: 12,000 participants

Out-of-school programs:out-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 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-up comedy, graphic design, digital photography, visual Arts, film production and ceramics. (2) summer Arts in the middle program (aim) : middle school Arts summer program, m-f, 4 hours, 6 weeks. Classes offered are: drama, visual art, film production, game design, creativity lab, dance, guitar, singing, media Arts. (3) work of art (woa) : a college and career exploration program to prepare youth with skills, training, and real-world experience necessary for life beyond high school; workshops, classes, field trips and one-on-one counseling, offered during out-of-school hours and weekends.2019 out-of-school program service: 1,174 students