New Website Coming!

We are soooo excited to share this news with you! This year we worked hard on launching a new website! We aimed to clarify our programming, share new content from students and staff, and provide new online resources. At a time when the digital space has never been more important, we are updating our online presence. Stay tuned for our release along with the 2020 Annual Report this month! 

Art Works in the Classroom and After School

This week, a group of highly motivated self-selecting students interested in developing their skills further signed up for Level 2: Residencies and Career Skills. Through after-school workshops, students will build new skills in Photography with artist SHAN Wallace and Poetry + Graphic Design with artist Sean Slaughter. In partnership with the Southern California Library, students are exploring archiving as activism, which will culminate in an online exhibition in December, Memory Work. In addition to arts residencies, students also participate in weekly career skills workshops, which introduce them to leadership and life skills in addition to résumé-writing, interview skills, and more.

Interested artworxLA students can still sign up for this program!

Congrats to Arts for Healing and Justice Network (FKA AIYN)!

News from the Arts for Healing and Justice Network!

"We are excited today to welcome a new name and new leadership reflective of the organization’s impact, growth, and future. Effective October 1, Associate Director Elida Ledesma will be promoted to Executive Director as the organization embraces the new name Arts for Healing and Justice Network.

The new name was the result of a deeply thoughtful, collaborative, and inclusive process – one that prioritized youth voices and their central relationship to the organization. The process also exemplified the organization’s networked approach with its member agencies, advisory council, and other valued community partners.

“Our success and evolution over the last five years has outpaced our original name,” said AIYN Board Chair Fabian Debora. “Arts for Healing and Justice Network better represents the organization’s significant growth and more accurately showcases who we are today, in this we continue to aspire and embrace the values that gave birth to this organization since day one.”"

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About Arts for Incarcerated Youth Network
The Arts for Incarcerated Youth Network (AIYN) is an interdisciplinary collaborative that provides exceptional arts programming in order to build resiliency and wellness, eliminate recidivism, and transform the juvenile justice system. Founded in 2015, AIYN is the only arts collaborative for incarcerated youth in the state of California, and provides structure, coordination, and support to arts organizations serving youth in the Los Angeles (LA) County juvenile justice system. Under AIYN, 13 member agencies serve youth in detention in LA County, providing high-quality arts education that includes creative writing, spoken word, visual arts, theater, digital media, dance, and music. This work now extends beyond the 22 Probation-run facilities AIYN serves throughout LA County, to include support for successful youth reentry and expanded community programs. For more information, visit https://www.aiynetwork.org/.

AIYN’s 13 member agencies are: Actors’ Gang, Armory Center for the Arts, artworxLA, Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles, InsideOUT Writers, Jail Guitar Doors, Rhythm Arts Alliance, Somos LA Arte, Street Poets Inc, Tia Chucha’s Centro Cultural/Young Warriors, Unusual Suspects Theatre Company, Versa-Style Dance, and WriteGirl/Bold Ink Writers.