YALA’s Arts Education Workshops for Early Learners are in person at Ogden, Newcomb, and NOMA.
Father and infant daughter enjoy a colorful exhibit at Newcomb Art Museum after a YALA Baby Artsplay!™ workshop.
Young Audiences of Louisiana (YALA) will hold in-person YALA Baby Artsplay! and Artsplay workshops at at Ogden Museum of Southern Art, Newcomb Art Museum, and New Orleans Museum of Art, among other locations. The 30-minute arts education workshops use song and dance to promote cognitive development in preschoolers. Lessons are conducted by certified Louisiana Wolf Trap Teaching Artists, who have expertly crafted multi-sensory experiences that foster children’s natural curiosity for learning. As they travel to different locations, caregivers get to explore local cultural, arts, and history institutions while learning how they can use arts strategies to promote childhood development in their everyday life. After each workshop, caregivers can download our digital Connection Cards for tips on how workshop activities can be continued at home. Thanks to the generous support of The Helis Foundation, admission to the workshop and the partner museum is free for program participants. Attend one workshop or all six! Families can register at www.ya4la.org/events.
YALA Baby Artsplay!™ at Ogden Museum of Southern Art
YALA Artsplay!™ at Newcomb Art Museum
YALA Baby Artsplay!™ at New Orleans Museum of Art
Reactivate your arts experience by engaging in one of our online workshops on YouTube (@youngaudiencesla) or Facebook (@youngaudiences). Follow YALA for updates on additional workshop dates and partner museums.
About Young Audiences of Louisiana
Young Audiences of Louisiana (YALA) is the leading provider of arts education and integration programs in the state of Louisiana. Founded in 1962 to bring chamber musicians into local classrooms, YALA has adapted and evolved to meet the ever-changing needs of youth throughout the state through our mission of “inspiring, empowering, and uniting children and communities through education, arts, and culture.” YALA offers a comprehensive and creative approach to educating young minds. Fortified with years of experience, YALA draws upon New Orleans’s strong arts culture to provide young people with tools to impact their worlds using art. Through school performances, arts-integrated residencies, extended learning programs and community workshops YALA not only impacts the children of New Orleans, but make intentional contact with the influential adults in their lives.
About Wolf Trap
Wolf Trap Institute for Early Learning Through the Arts is a recognized leader in early childhood arts-integrated learning and instruction. Wolf Trap Institute is scaled nationally, with 17 affiliated organizations and numerous partners in 30 states that deliver arts-integrated education experiences to 60,000 teachers, parents/caregivers, and students annually. Young Audiences of Louisiana is the Louisiana Affiliate of Wolf Trap Institute for Early Learning Through the Arts.
About The Helis Foundation
The Helis Foundation is a Louisiana private foundation, established and funded by the William Helis Family. The Art Funds of The Helis Foundation advance access to the arts for the community through contributions that sustain operations for, provide free admission to, acquire works of art, and underwrite major exhibitions and projects of institutions within the Greater New Orleans area.