Arts for Learning the Indiana Affiliate of Young Audiences

Programs: Consolidated programming - provides professional arts education programs to children. Our programs strive to improve students' ability to understand the arts, increase interest in the arts, improve integration of the arts into a school's curriculum and increase the opportunity for learning through the arts. 74,881 students served in the 2013-2014 year.

early childhood programming - programs designed to provide kids from infant through kindergarten with educational experiences in music, dance, theater, and visual arts. 8,554 children reached throughout the year.

summer arts for youth/arts for summer learning - summer arts for youth took place in july & august of this fiscal year. It was replaced on june of this fiscal year with arts for summer learning. Arts for summer learning is a rigorous reading program that blends the creativity and discipline of the arts with learning science to raise student achievement in reading through a4l lessons. This all-day camp also includes an array or unique enrichment presentations and performances that support the units of study. 9,119 students participated in the 2013-2014 year.

arts for learning is indiana's affiliate of young audiences and the largest and oldest provider of professional arts education programs for children. It reaches some 300,000 children each year with in-school performances, workshops, and residency-type programs, and it augments this activity with an array of professional development opportunities designed to help teachers and artists bring the arts into the school environment more effectively. Part of a national consortium of young audience programs - there are 32 chapters serving some 8. 1 million students each year around the country - indiana's chapter is generally seen as ranking among the top tier of all chapters. Other significant programs offered include after school care, where professional teaching artists deliver workshops to children k-12 during extended learning hours after school, and the inside arts program, delivering workshops to residents of juvenile detention centers in marion, hamilton, and bartholomew counties. 4,645 students participated in the after school program and 1,230 in the inside arts program. This fiscal year, young audiences also introduced two new services, arts for healing and inspiring scholars. Arts for healing is a program in which professional artists bring live arts to young patients, their families, and healthcare professionals at health care facilities. The goal is to make the arts an integral part of healing. 536 patients were served. Inspiring scholars is a 4 week academic, mentoring and cultural enrichment summer program that aims to increase children's knowledge and mastery of the basic skills of reading, writing and math. The organization aims to raise children's self-esteem and creative potential, to empower parents and to support effective mentoring relationships between children and positive adult role models. 1,200 children participated.