Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts will make its adult education and engagement program, "YBCA:YOU,", much more robust so that it can serve an increasing number of participants. "YBCA:YOU" is a series of activities that include an onsite participation phase involving attendance at a self-curated series of arts events and participatory activities. In this phase, the center aims to increase participants' level of aesthetic awareness, capability, and appreciation of contemporary art and offer at least 50 YBCA:YOU exclusive events each year—from artist lectures and discussion groups to the center's signature Art Savvy and Smart Night Out workshops. This program will help to establish a framework for creating a community of engaged, creative citizens who gain experiential learning, critical knowledge, and aesthetic development from the art, the artists, and the programs of the center, and from each other.