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

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Media Contact:Virginia L. HamptonYoung Audiences of Louisiana 504-276-9218 virginia at ya4la.org                                                                                                                                        FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE     
Young Audiences of Louisiana hosts live painting fundraiser: YALA Art Live
 NEW ORLEANS, LA, March 21, 2025 –Young Audiences of Louisiana (YALA) is holding its fifth annual YALA ArtLive fundraiser. YALA Art Live centers around a unique type of visual performance art: live painting. Watch artstudents from Young Audiences Charter Schools, Lincoln Elementary School for the Arts, and West JeffersonHigh School pair up with professional New Orleans artists Ceaux, Alison Cline, Emre Karaoglu, and HeatherMattingly. 
Art lovers of all ages are welcome to join the festivities, scheduled to take place on Saturday, April 5from 12:00 pm to 4:00 pm at Urban South Brewery, 1645 Tchoupitoulas Street. The local brewery has graciouslycommitted to supporting YALA’s arts in education programming, by donating a portion of every pint sold duringthe free community event. The festivities will include the Urban Smash Food Truck, Kendra Scott Pop-up, KidsArt Table, a DJ, face painter, a raffle, and a Baby ArtsPlay! workshop demo at 2pm 
“YALA Art Live creates a reciprocal relationship wherein students are able to interact with our broader communitythrough the arts, and the community becomes aware of the talent and potential that exists in our New Orleansyouth,” said Jenny James, Executive Director of YALA.
 
“We strive to help students realize the many opportunities that arts education affords them. Pairing them up witha professional artist shows them they have the tools to work with an artist of that caliber, and gives them theconfidence to know that art is an option for the future, whether they want to practice professionally or as ahobby.”
 
Paintings created at the event will be auctioned at YALA’s Winter fundraiser, YALA Fa La La to support YALA'searly learning and afterschool arts education programs. YALA’s afterschool programs currently operate at tenlocations across the Greater New Orleans Area. The programs combine academics, arts and culture in order todevelop students intellectually and socially.
 
Sponsors for the event include First Horizon Bank, Krewe of Rolling Elvi, Marguerite Moisio, and McCormick. Thisis the fifth 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 towitness the collaboration between the artists and the children. I'm also excited to see the art and how it allcomes together.”
 
For more information on YALA Art Live and the arts education programs it will help fund, visitwww.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 thestate of Louisiana. Founded in 1962 to bring chamber musicians into local classrooms, YALA has adapted andevolved 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 acomprehensive and creative approach to educating young minds. Fortified with years of experience, YALA drawsupon 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 communityworkshops YALA not only impacts the children of New Orleans, but makes intentional contact with the influentialadults in their lives.
     


     


     
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