Armory Center for the Arts

Armory Center for the Arts will expand Art High to serve a broader demographic, emphasizing at-risk and in-crisis teens. The museum will deepen programming through mentoring, career guidance, portfolio development, and exhibition of teen artwork, while providing more than 700 teens with more than 1,000 hours of instruction yearly. It will build on partnerships with the Learning Works Charter School and Homeboy Industries to engage in-crisis teens, helping them gain 21st century skills and experience personal accomplishment in a supportive environment. The museum will create new evaluation techniques and tools to ensure that programming meets the needs of underserved teens and will conduct targeted outreach to diverse populations that have few opportunities for substantive arts education. The museum will share the initiative and its professional development and outreach techniques through the Teaching Artist State Collaborative and National Art Education Association Convention and will lead a 2014 regional conference.