Inner-City Threads (ICT) programs teach YA/YA artists skills such as screen-printing, pattern design, hand- and machine-sewing, and other fabric application techniques for creating functional and wearable art.

ICT was started when YA/YA artists worked one summer designing and making their own unique outfits, which they later presented at YA/YA’s first fashion show, "The Final Fit," held at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art.

ICT offered its "Tremé Storytelling Quilt" project as an advanced fabric skill building program. Though the creation of a vibrant 11' x 9' foot quilt, the fabric told the story of New Orleans' historic Tremé neighborhood, the oldest urban African American community in the United States, also thought to be the birthplace of jazz.