Youth Programs

Through multidisciplinary arts programs, including poetry, music, and visual arts, students build trust with one another, explore their identity and aspirations, and build literacy skills, communication, and self-expression.

The Art of Growing Leaders

Through engaging in multidisciplinary art projects, students build communities of trust with one another while exploring their identity and aspirations. Students take inventory to find their unique strengths as leaders, build a sense of belonging within the classroom, and work together on a social action project utilizing art for advocacy and activism.

Curriculum Themes: building community and sanctuary, exploring identity and personal vision, redefining leadership, collective visioning, and social action

We the Poets

The We the Poets® program, ArtWell’s longest running program, uses the mediums of reading, discussing, and writing poetry as a vehicle to nurture students’ ability to communicate and express themselves emotionally while also enhancing their literacy skills and reading levels. Through teaching students poetic devices, forms and more contemporary works by Black, Latinx, and Indigenous writers, We the Poets® makes the art form of poetry accessible for all.

Curriculum Themes: self-empowerment, identity, self-expression, collaboration, reflection, establishing a creative voice

EcoArts

EcoArts uses a combination of art, poetry, and reflection to engage youth in exploring and redefining what the environment means to them. Participants study and discuss how they can impact and care for the environment as well as how it directly impacts their lives and well-being. Through a combination of art forms and garden projects, students imagine the world they want to live in and advocate for environmental justice and sustainability.

Summer Programs

Throughout the summer, ArtWell partners with schools and community organizations to provide supplemental multidisciplinary arts programs.

Partner organizations have included Play on Philly, Horizons Cristo-Rey, and CB Community Schools.

ArtWell Youth Programs and Workshops are available as a fee-for-service for youth development agencies outside of our core partner network.

Inquiring agencies may be eligible for grant-sponsored workshops when available. To request a youth program or workshop, please fill out our form below!