Myac

At MYAC, young people develop their talents, form essential life skills, and build diversity through engaging in nationally recognized arts education. ​ MYAC is a collaborative space where youth build critical thinking and socio-emotional skills that lead to improved academic and life outcomes. It is where young people build social connections, reaching across differences to experience what inclusion and acceptance truly are. It’s where passion for the arts takes root, lifelong friendships begin, and next-generation leaders and innovators see a path to the future. It’s closing the opportunity gap, instilling citizenship, creating visionaries. Research shows youth who participate in the arts are more than twice as likely to volunteer in their communities, independent of education, age, gender, or ethnicity. MYAC is helping inspire community volunteers, the next creative class, and the 21st century workforce by actively nurturing leadership characteristics through the leading arts education programs that take place here. Taking the good that comes from investing in the arts to advance community priorities and bring about social change is another opportunity for MYAC to lead. The rebirth of Milwaukee neighborhoods that intersect MYAC — from Walnut Way to Schlitz Park to the Deer District — is richer when arts are part of the renaissance. MYAC helps bring arts and neighborhood together to foster new approaches that promote understanding and achieve solutions to complex communi...

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