How We YAYA
Urban Heroes
Leadership development is a huge part of YAYA's training: Our artists lead custom workshops in schools, during field trips to our teaching studio, and at community events across New Orleans. Through the URBAN HEROES program, YAYA artists give back to their communities, reaching some 800 young New Orleanians each year and helping them to use art as a positive form of self-expression.
YAYA's presence often constitutes the primary or only artistic instruction students receive. With this in mind, we design workshops that complement school curriculums and follow Louisiana Department of Education Standards. All Urban Heroes workshops develop skills in creative brainstorming, geometry and measuring, visualization, team-work, fine motor coordination, and problem-solving.
To learn more or to bring Urban Heroes to your school or event, contact Timeka Junius (YA '93) at 504.343.6230 or timeka@yayainc.com.
Urban Heroes Partners and Supporters
Kids Rethink New Orleans Schools
Hope Academy
New Orleans Science & Math Charter School
Booker T. Washington High School
Miller-McCoy Academy
McDonogh 42 High School
Walter L. Cohen High School
James M. Singleton Charter School
Sophie B. Wright Middle School
Good Shepherd School
Isidore Newman School
Samuel J. Green Charter School
Drew Elementary School
Daughters of Charity
2013 Super Bowl Host Committee
Harmony Oaks/NONDC
Jericho Road
SilenceIsViolence
Louisiana Office of the Lieutenant Governor
YA/YA Urban Heroes worked with 200 schoolchildren at the Lieutenant Governor's tent at the 2010 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival.
Our in-school Urban Heroes workshops bring YAYA artist-mentors into classrooms around the city to design and lead artistic projects.