What the Department of Cultural Affairs Offers you

Today’s framework for youth art is shaped largely by our laws and social values. We have child labor laws, public school systems and social beliefs that value childhood. Yet as kids get older, they leave behind the colorful classrooms of elementary school for the more “serious” environments of junior high and high school. Whether they pursue their artistic inclinations or not depends on a number of factors.

Today’s framework for youth art is shaped largely by our laws and social values. How can SAIC students shape the art-making experience for kids?

The point of this art isn’t necessarily to see eye to eye, but to speak heart to heart.