Youth Arts Bursary Winners Announced
A young participant at the Klondike Institute of Art and Culture’s Youth Art Enrichment Program.
This year’s winners of the Canadian Art Youth Arts Bursary are the Southern Alberta Art Gallery in Lethbridge; the Klondike Institute of Art and Culture in Dawson City; and Art City in Toronto.
The Youth Arts Bursary program supports innovative youth-oriented visual arts education projects. Project grants are awarded to public galleries and artist-run centres from across Canada for youth education initiatives, which allow professional artists to mentor and share skills and knowledge with youths aged 5 to 18.
Over three months during the school year, the Southern Alberta Art Gallery will bring together groups of students from different backgrounds within Lethbridge through the use of digital media, smart phone technology and storytelling. Each group of three to four students will create narratives based in and about their community through audio, video, text and digital photographs. These narratives will gradually unfold as visitors use smart phones to decode the quick-response bar codes that will be printed onto posters and stickers and placed throughout the community.
The Klondike Institute of Art and Culture in Dawson City used the Youth Arts Bursary prize to accommodate more students in its Youth Art Enrichment Program. Each year, 36 high school students travel to Dawson to take part in four-day intensive workshops with professional artists, in which they focus on a discipline of their choice. Each year the works of two students are purchased for the KIAC’s youth art collection.
Art City in Toronto has created a new program called Art Link, which is designed to explore the link between art and play in a child’s life, and will include workshops for the youth of St. James Town aged 13 to 18 years. Five workshops will run over three weekends this fall, and have a different theme related to “play in the arts.” The themes are food and culinary arts, toys and games, sports, music and instruments, and drama and theatre. Once a month, participating youth will visit some of Toronto’s cultural venues.
For more information about the Canadian Art Youth Arts Bursary, please visit our related program site.
