Young Arts’ concept is to make kids feel good about themselves

by displaying their artistic creations. Seeing their art professionally framed on a gallery wall is a powerful way to celebrate and validate children, particularly children who are troubled and challenged and therefore at risk.

Art making allows children to express their challenging situations and conditions and gives them a valuable outlet. During art sessions, children are free to express their difficult feelings and intense life experiences through art. Often, for the first time in their lives, they are able to succeed at something. By making art, children experience a situation in which they can do no wrong. Bringing children in touch with excellence in art influences their habits of mind and personal dispositions and helps them build the skills they need as balanced community members.

Young Arts works with kids who are poor, learning challenged, mentally disabled, survivors of disaster and war, autistic; kids who have cancer, arthritis, diabetes, are homeless, detained, orphans, pregnant, and many more. Through art advocacy and the public exhibition of children’s art the community becomes aware of the issues, hardships and conditions with which these kids live.

Young Arts is a community organization and collaborates with many schools and social agencies in Metro Phoenix and Tucson.

Click here to see a list of our collaborators.

Young Arts Arizona Ltd is a non-profit organization that has been active in Arizona community since 1998. Our work and service to the community is completely unique: We publicly exhibit children’s art!

Young Arts has its own gallery, Purple Space, in which we open exhibitions by holding a

reception to celebrate the artists along with their friends, family and the community. Purple Space is on the shuttle route for First Friday – the downtown Phoenix monthly gallery event.

Through Young Arts’ efforts, over 12,500 pieces of children’s art have been shown in over 452 exhibits in the last 10 years and has been seen by an audience of over 7.7 million. So many children have been able to develop a positive self-concept and identify themselves in a constructive way because they were free to express them selves creatively and were validated and acknowledged through the exhibition of their art.

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Our collaborating partners engage their kids in art making within

their curricula and programs, and Young Arts frames and exhibits the pieces. Young Arts also conducts art workshops where none are being offered. Local artists serve as teachers and facilitators for these classes.

Our children’s artwork is shown in public galleries all over the Metro Phoenix Area and in Tucson on a rotating basis.

Click here to see a list of our galleries

Click here for a current schedule