YBCA YOUNG ARTISTS AT WORK
From 2011 to 2014, Laurel was the Youth Arts Manager and Education/Engagement Specialist at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. She coordinated and supervised the Young Artists at Work paid, multidisciplinary art-as-activism program for high school teens, developing and implementing a rigorous year-long art-as-social-justice curriculum in conjunction with YBCA's curatorial vision and teaching weekly classes in contemporary performance practices, critical aesthetic theory, and community activism. During her tenure as Program Manager, Laurel:
Laurel's article about the YAAW program, Something Larger than Ourselves: Redefining the Young Artists at Work Program as an Art-as-Activism Residency for Teens was published in the Fall 2014 issue of the Journal of Museum Education.
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ARTIVISM AS POWER
A presentation about the Young Artists At Work Community-Based Project Model
Allied Media Conference Transformative Arts Practice Space
Detroit MI, June 2013.
A presentation about the Young Artists At Work Community-Based Project Model
Allied Media Conference Transformative Arts Practice Space
Detroit MI, June 2013.
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TRUTH BE TOLD
Collaboratively created by the men of the Resolve to Stop the Violence program at San Francisco Jail #5 and the YBCA Young Artists at Work Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Forum Theater San Francisco CA, April 2014 |
URBANIAN
Devised and performed by the YBCA Young Artists at Work Yerba Buena Center for the Arts San Francisco CA, 2012 |
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NO PHONE
A performance workshop devised by Laurel for the YBCA Young Artist's at Work 50 Cent Tabernacle program
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater
January, 2014
A performance workshop devised by Laurel for the YBCA Young Artist's at Work 50 Cent Tabernacle program
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater
January, 2014