Give Kids Art activities focus on the process and inner joy of creative self-expression, rather than on the final product. When we are given the freedom to be imperfect and to fearlessly explore ourselves through art, what comes forth unconditionally can be even more “beautiful.”

Our art programs and workshops are individually customized to our partner organization’s participants’ ages, needs, and abilities. Sessions can range 60-90 minutes (one-time or weekly) and will include a fun warm-up exercise, an art-making activity, the opportunity to present and share, as well as positive messages to reflect upon and carry long after our time together.

OUR PROGRAMS

Curriculum Partner Program

Give Kids Art’s Curriculum Partner Program equips organizations with a turnkey, seasonally adapted art curriculum that promotes social-emotional development and creative self-expression. We train your staff or volunteers to lead our 8–10-week modules, supply all art materials, and provide detailed lesson plans—enabling your team to focus on inspiring creativity in the children you serve.

We supply all materials, and our programs are provided at no cost to our partners.

What Our curriculum partners Receive each season:

• All Supplies
  Everything you need for 8–10 weeks of programming—organized by season and ready to go.

• Virtual Facilitator Training
  A live training session with a Give Kids Art staff member to walk you through the program and answer questions.

• Facilitator Guide & Tips
  A helpful reference document with best practices, tips, and reminders to support your sessions.

• Detailed Written Curriculum
  Easy-to-follow plans for one 1-hour activity each week, designed to run for 8–10 weeks.

• Activity Slideshows
  Visual slide decks to guide each activity and keep kids engaged.

Take a look at one of our case studies here and here.

Workshops

Our one-time workshops and workshop Series offer customizable art engagements that inspire self-expression and emotional well-being in just one or a few sessions. Give Kids Art manages the entire process—from program design and supply sourcing to on-site facilitation—allowing your team to host memorable art experiences that resonate with participants and align with your organizational goals. We work side-by-side with your organization to customize each session to address your community’s unique strengths and requirements, ensuring we provide the most meaningful, inspiring creative experiences for your audience.

Take a look at one of our workshop case studies here.

OUR PHILOSOPHY

The Art Process vs. The Art Product

Give Kids Art programs involve more than “just another art class.” We embrace a heart-warming narrative that focuses on the kids creative experiences and the entire art process rather than on their end product. This enables children to share and engage in a fun-filled, enlightening and unconditional process and outcome, where they can safely embrace and exercise creating freely, openly, and most importantly, fearlessly.

Why is this both necessary and important, more now than ever?

• Because our families and youth have enormous stress today and live in a fast-paced digital age consumed by physical inactivity and social media negativity.

• Because kids need a constructive, creative outlet for self-care and to use their minds and imaginations rather than their devices, or even worse, a negative escape, as most have been forced to go without the Arts due to school budget cuts.

• Because it has been well documented that experiencing and engaging in creative self-expression as a child can lead to a more joyful, meaningful, productive, successful and fulfilling independent adult life and positive relationships.

We invite our youth on a fun, creative journey of self- expression, self-love, self-respect, respect and compassion for others, independent thinking, risk taking, sensory exploration, spacial reasoning along with the exposure to a variety of art techniques, geometry, literature, poetry and art history.

Please help us in financing our programming for the underserved and underfunded kids of our Los Angeles communities, so they, too, can turn to a creative, productive outlet for joy, self-care and positive self-expression.

Our hope is to help children hold onto and grow their innate creativity instead of getting educated out of it.

At Give Kids Art, every child is a creative miracle.