[CharterSchools] Young Audiences of Louisiana hosts live painting fundraiser: YALA Art Live

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Media Contact:Virginia L. Hampton, Young Audiences of Louisiana504-523-3525 or virginia at ya4la.org 
Young Audiences of Louisiana hosts live painting fundraiser: 

YALA Art Live
 NEW ORLEANS, LA –Young Audiences of Louisiana (YALA) is holding its third annual YALA Art Live fundraiser. YALA Art Live centers around a unique type of visual performance art: live painting. Watch art students from Young Artist Charter Schools, Lincoln Elementary School for the Arts, and West Jefferson High School pair up with professional New Orleans artists Alina Allen, Max Bernardi, Jamar Pierre, and Kentrice Schexnayder. Art lovers of all ages are welcome to join the festivities, scheduled to take place on Saturday, April 22, 2023 from 4:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. at Urban South Brewery,1645 Tchoupitoulas Street. The local brewery has graciously committed to supporting YALA’s arts in education programming, by donating a portion of every pint sold during the free community event. Their food truck, Urban Smash will also be open and serving food. “YALA Art Live creates a reciprocal relationship wherein students are able to interact with our broader community through the arts, and the community becomes aware of the talent and potential that exists in our New Orleans youth,” said Jenny James, Executive Director of YALA. “We strive to help students realize the many opportunities that arts education affords them. Pairing them up with a professional artist shows them they have the tools to work with an artist of that caliber, and gives them the confidence to know that art is an option for the future, whether they want to practice professionally or as a hobby.” Paintings created at the event will be auctioned at YALA’s Winter fundraiser, YALA Fa La La to support YALA's early learning and afterschool arts education programs. YALA’s afterschool programs currently operate at ten locations across the Greater New Orleans Area. The programs combine academics, arts and culture in order to develop students intellectually and socially. Sponsors for the event include First Horizon Bank, Krewe of Rolling Elvi, Marguerite Moisio, McCormick, and Nadja Solerno Sonnenberg. This is the third time the event will be held at Urban South Brewery. Urban South Brewery Taproom Event Manager, Jen Bordenave said partnering with YALA for the event was a “no-brainer.” “At Urban South we support the community at every chance we can,” Bordenave said. “It will be amazing to witness the collaboration between the artists and the children. I'm also excited to see the art and how it all comes together.” For more information on YALA Art Live and the arts education programs it will help fund, visit www.ya4la.org/artlive. You can also follow YALA on Facebook and Instagram.  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 makes intentional contact with the influential adults in their lives.  # # # 
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