These are some of the values that we will strive to incorporate into every aspect of our programming.
We also believe in the power of artistic inquiry. In these posts, you can see how our project director, Todd Berman, uses his sketchnote drawings to focus, listen, and learn. We encourage all of our students to notice how art helps them think more deeply about any subject.
We will help young people express their own ideas about public art policies, and any issue they believe in.
Young people have a right to learn about Hip Hop arts and to learn from the creative resistance experts in their own communities.
In education, in Hip Hop culture, in health, in life, joy is essential. We want all of our classes to be full of joy.
In this post we reflect on what we learned about joy and Hip Hop from a panel organized by James Lick Middle School and a Teaching Artist Think Tank organized by the Arts Education Alliance of the Bay Area.
Making art can be a very powerful tool for overcoming trauma.
We have learned from experienced professionals and local experts in trauma-informed practices about how the Where Art Lives program can support healing.