The Arts

For many kids, the Arts Core program provides an outlet to express themselves and be recognized. KayleFor Kaylee, the arts program provided an outlet to express herself and be recognized. The arts also hold the keys to learning, and through this program she is able to learn, achieve, and succeed. With the declining availability of art programs in schools, the Boys & Girls Club provides youth with an opportunity to express themselves freely, capturing their passions and emotions as well as allowing them to explore new ideas, subject matter, and cultures.

The Arts core program of the Boys & Girls Club enables youth to develop creativity and cultural awareness through knowledge and appreciation of visual and tactile arts and crafts, performing arts, and creative writing. Kids at all ten Clubs of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Metropolitan Phoenix can enjoy a diversity of art programs that include:

Fine Arts

Talen Show

Crafts

Performing Arts

Photography

Exhibits and more

Literary Arts

 

There are also special opportunities to empower those that are naturaly gifted to pursue a career in the arts. One of those opportunities is the:

Jemeille Ackourey Scholarship Fund

Through the generosity of Karl Polen and board members and friends of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Metropolitan Phoenix, the Jemeille Ackourey Scholarship had been established to provide support to artistically talented and deserving young men and women...more>>