• Who and What is Young Arts Arizona?
  
  
• YA helps kids feel good about themselves by publicly exhibiting their art

• YA makes it possible for challenged children to express their difficult feelings through art

• The artwork created by at-risk children is annually seen by tens of thousands of people in Metro Phoenix

• YA collaborates with many schools and agencies (group homes for developmentally disabled people, The Wellness Community which serves kids with cancer, Boys and Girls Clubs all over the Valley, to name a few)

• YA works with children and youth who have cancer, arthritis, diabetes, are homeless, orphans, pregnant teens, mentally disabled, poor, learning challenged, or in some other way at risk.
•  
• YA collaborates with  33 venues, which serve as our publicly accessible galleries. 19 of these are permanent galleries in which YA exhibits year round.
•  
• YA has its own gallery – Purple Space – in the downtown Phoenix Art District.
•  
• YA has exhibited over 9000 pieces of children’s art since 1999.
•  
• Over 4 Million people have seen artwork by at-risk children through YA.
•  
• Art heals; art helps kids make sense of their world; active participation in an art project can facilitate recovery processes.
•  
• Through art, the children tell stories, share their deepest feelings and gain self-esteem in a time when they feel weak and different.

Send donations to:
Young Arts Arizona Ltd.
2009 North 7th Street Phoenix, AZ 85006
Phone: (602) 852-3605  Fax: (602) 508-0010