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The Arts
Commission Announces 2014 YAAWTM
Program Open House Event
Special to The Truth
The Arts Commission is pleased to announce that the 2014
Young Artists At Work (YAAW) Program is currently underway.
Our organization is very thankful to hold our program in the
University of Toledo’s Center for Visual Arts facility,
located in the Frank Gehry Building attached to the Toledo
Museum of Art, again for a fifth year. We are very grateful
for our continued partnership with the University of Toledo,
specifically the College of Communications and Arts and the
Department of Art.
Since 1994, The Arts Commission has presented the award
winning Young Artists at Work (YAAW) program. This six-week
summer employment opportunity enables diverse and at-risk
youth to benefit from an intense exposure to the arts.
Student apprentices between the ages of 14 and 18 were
selected in a competitive process for six weeks of summer
employment as working artists.
The objective of YAAW is to provide an intensive arts
experience that fosters artistic self-expression and a
quality work ethic that can impact the youth throughout
adulthood. The program encourages expression, refinement,
cross-cultural sharing, and the exchange of ideas. The
opportunity provides exposure to the concept of art as a
business, as well as the creation of public art for the
greater Toledo community.
The apprentices in this year’s program include 50 youth
representing more than 30 area high schools, including
private, parochial, charter, and public schools. The 2014
YAAW apprentices are working on a number of projects this
summer under the mentorship of talented local artists and
art educators.
The larger and more community-oriented projects include the
painting of a public mural on the exterior wall of the
Professional Building housing the offices of The Arts
Commission and the Toledo Symphony Orchestra. This mural
incorporates themes of youth, creativity and play as
requested by clients and partners for the project – one
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The other 33 apprentices are creating muraled park benches
to be placed as beautiful, functional public art in various
neighborhoods where many of them live, immediately
surrounding the downtown core. These apprentices have been
meeting with various neighborhood partners to gain insight
as to appropriate imagery to be incorporated into their
bench artwork specific to the character of each
neighborhood.
The public is invited to join us for the YAAW Open House on
Wednesday, July 30, 5-7pm at the YAAW Worksite (UT’s Center
for the Visual Arts, 620 Grove Place) to celebrate the
creative accomplishments of the apprentices with brief
remarks, artwork for sale and light refreshments.
Program support for the 2014 YAAW program is provided by:
OmniSource, Lucas County Job and Family Services, Ohio Arts
Council, Frederick S. Upton Foundation, Community Foundation
for Southeast Michigan, Toledo Department of Neighborhoods,
The Andersons, TMACOG, Owens-Illinois Inc, GEM Industrial,
Kiwanis Youth Foundation, Toledo Community Foundation, Fifth
Third Bank, University of Toledo, TARTA, Toledo Museum of
Art, Jim Zaleski, John Haskins Design, Marc Brown and Molly
Zraik, Thomas Zraik, Dorothy M. Price, Hannah Lehmann, Gwen
Betts, Cynthia and Wes Bunch, Matthew Wikander and Christine
Child, Barbara Eikost, Sharon Goldner, Jesse Heider, Robert
and Patricia Levey, Debra Nicholson, Doug Reinhart, Keithley
B. Sparrow, Peter S. Ujvagi, Joel Washing- Above the Shop
Studios, Marcia Helman, Caroline Jardine, Julie Jardine,
Sharon A. Kerstetter, Nicole Brandstrup and Dennis Norman,
II, Sarah K. Skow, Robert A. and Gail Zimmerman, Suzanne
Hargrove and John Barfield, Shirley J. Kirshner, James M.
and Pat Appold, Shakil Khan, Cathleen Heidelberg, Michelle
Kinney, Howard S. Madigan, Scott and Margy Trumbull, David
and Judy Weinberg, Marvin Schonbrun, Margaret Hiett, Denis
Dreher, Marcelle M. Dupay, Patricia T. McConnell, James H.
Morris, Mary L. Weiss, Morton and Sue Bobowick, Patrice C.
Spitzer, Jim Brower, James G. Ravin, Robert Folk, Walter
Churchill Jr, Lou McLove and Beverly Wolcott, Sara Jane
DeHoff , Gerald-David Runkle, Julie Beckert, Jim Moore and
Tim Valko, Matthew Junod & WavFlow Media.
To learn more about the YAAW program, please visit
www.theartscommission.org
The Arts Commission of Greater Toledo is the longest
standing arts commission in the state of Ohio that develops
and promotes the arts in the community, serving northwest
Ohio since 1959.
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