Youth Enrichment Partnerships
Through partnerships with local high schools and youth and arts organizations, the Steel Yard offers classes in blacksmithing, bronze casting, welding, ceramics, and other industrial arts to local students aged 13-18. Based in the Steel Yard's industrial shop and taught by working artists, these free classes enable students to gain hands-on instruction in art forms unavailable through public school curricula. Students graduate from YEP classes with a piece of work that they have made with their own hands, and command of new skills that have both fine arts and vocational applications. Whether a student wants to learn a new craft, gain access to otherwise unavailable instruction in the fine arts, or jumpstart a career in the industrial arts, YEP classes broaden their horizons. Current YEP partners include AS220's Broad Street Studio, the Met School, and New Urban Arts. The program is funded by grants from the Rhode Island Foundation, David Rockefeller Fund, and Providence Department of Arts, Culture and Tourism.
Partners
Partners
 AS220's mission is to provide an uncensored and unjuried forum for Rhode Island artists. This means that any artist living in the state of Rhode Island will get an opportunity to perform or exhibit at AS220.
Witness an ever-changing host of programs that provide artists with a context and community for their work. access info here www.as220.org |
 New Urban Arts is an interdisciplinary arts studio in Providence, RI where high school students and emerging artists practice powerful mentoring relationships.
Among fifty premiere arts and youth development models in the country! Voted best non-profit in Rhode Island! Voted best role model in Rhode Island! For more info, click on www.newurbanarts.org |
 The MET (The Metropolitan Regional Career and Technical Center) is a small public high school open to all students in Rhode Island. We educate one student at a time, so each student's curriculum is determined by his or her unique interests, background, and learning styles. All students work on projects in real-world settings related to their interests and develop strong relationships with teachers and project mentors. The Met enrolls families, not just students. We have a very diverse student body, and every Met graduate has been accepted to college. Learn more from the Met Portfolio, the book One Kid at a Time, and the video Learning Journeys here www.metcenter.org
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 The Textron Chambers Academy is a Providence Public Charter School. The School helps illuminate the path to a career for economically and socially disadvantaged urban youth. Through intensive mentoring, an expectation of success and a high dose of opportunity the result is successful young adults with a hopeful future.
http://www.chamberschool.com/ |
The Steel Yard is a program of the Woonasquatucket Valley Community Build, a 501(c)3 © 2004