Youth Spirit Artworks

Youth Spirit Artworks will be holding the next Bollard Mosaic Street Art Workshop on Saturday May 17th 9:30am to 2:30pm at the intersection of Harmon and California Streets in Berkeley's Lorin neighborhood. This is part of our Healthy South Berkeley Turn-A-Rounds, Benches and Bollards Campaign focusing on health education in South Berkeley. The City of Berkeley will again provide food and drinks. Youth worker leaders of the project from YSA will be passing out literature promoting health (compliments of the Dept. of Public Health) as they and the YSA staff encourage all participants to create designs on the theme of health and health care reform. Come join us for this super fun community event! For info. call Sally at: 510-282-0396.

Youth Spirit Artworks is now accepting applications for its 2008 summer intensive arts furniture painting jobs program which will be held from June 23, 2008 through August 8, 2008. Spaces are limited--Youth Spirit will accept 20 youth for the program. The summer program will be held from 9:30am to 2:30pm Monday through Friday at Berkeley Technology Academy, Art Studio/Room 126, 2701 Martin Luther King Jr. Way (at Derby), Berkeley, CA 94703. Free lunch is provided. All participating youth completing the program will receive stipends, as well as 50 percent of the proceeds of everything they sell. For information contact: Kscottbey@youthspiritartworks.org or call 510-282-0396.

 Download the application here.

Youth Spirit Artworks is holding an art competition for Berkeley youth, giving young people the opportunity to create art designs for wooden benches along the Adeline Street Corridor in South Berkeley. The bench designs chosen will be painted on nine local benches in 2008. The name of the artist/designer will be designated on each bench.  Be sure to learn more about the competition.

Here are a few Youth Spirit events happening in March 2008!

• March 1 through 31st 2008 Youth Spirit ArtWorks will be holding an exhibit of our artist's chairs and drawings at Sweet Adeline Bake Shop, 3350 Adeline Street, Berkeley, CA  94703 (cross street 63rd near Stanton). All art featured is for sale.

• Join us Saturday March 15, 2008 2pm to 5pm at Sweet Adeline for our Artists Reception and Tile Painting Workshop, part of our "Beautiful South Berkeley Bollards, Benches and Turn-A-Rounds" 2008 community art project focused on the topic of being our best selves/taking care of our health.

Be sure to check out February's Artist of the Month - Ryan McAllister!