Teaching artists aren’t just born, they are trained. YALA trains a dozen or so professional artists to become teaching artists each year in a 2 day workshop for their Teaching Artist Institute Training and Residency program.
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Following its original intention of providing meaningful activities for youth through the arts, in addition to theater productions, the Anthony Bean Community Theater continues since 2000 to train New Orleans actors for stage and film, including careers in set design and theater management.
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Open to professional artists of all teaching experience levels, the workshop will provide strategies to employ the artistic talents of participants in the instruction of core academic content alongside classroom teachers. After successfully completing an intensive two-day seminar conducted by arts integration and child development experts, each teaching artist will be placed in a classroom to conduct a five-day residency.
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This year’s theme for Black History Month is “African Americans in the Arts!” For this reason, YALA wishes to focus on some history of Black theater in New Orleans. It happens that due to its location and diverse performance talent, very early on New Orleans became a center for Black theater performance.
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Young Audiences of Louisiana ( Audiencias Jóvenes de Louisiana ) aprovechamos este momento para honrar el octavo Día Nacional de la Sanación Racial (NDoRH) el martes 16 de enero en toda la red de Escuelas de Young Audiences Charter Schools (YACS). En este día, miércoles 24 de enero, Young Audiences of Louisiana (YALA) organizará uno de sus primeros eventos anuales de Capacitación Comunitaria NDoRH.
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At YALA, we dream of an anti-racist world, especially in our schools and communities. We believe in the power of movement and creativity to bring people together, deepen relationships, fortify movements and collectively heal.
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Like all our teaching artists, Eddy Villalta Guillen and Nidia Morales are first and foremost artists who have also been trained to excel at teaching in a variety of ways. In two wonderful interviews I learned a whole lot to share about both these teaching artists and what they bring to YALA that’s unique. In the words of Nidia Morales, “I love kids and teaching, but I'm a better teacher if I do art myself.”
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Like all our teaching artists, Eddy Villalta Guillen and Nidia Morales are first and foremost artists who have also been trained to excel at teaching in a variety of ways. In two wonderful interviews I learned a whole lot to share about both these teaching artists and what they bring to YALA that’s unique. In the words of Nidia Morales, “I love kids and teaching, but I'm a better teacher if I do art myself.” In a similar way, Eddy Villalta, a professional ballet dancer, sees arts integration as a “tool for life” for the students he works with in the YACS network.
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Young Audiences of Louisiana (YALA) will hold the 2nd Annual YALA Fa La La festive on Thursday, November 30th from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m.
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Roscoe Reddix has a stillness about him. He thinks carefully before he speaks. And he speaks from a deep well of New Orleans culture, art, history, self determination and expertise. An HBCU-educated theater and dance professional, and current Director of Arts Integration at YACS Kate Middleton, Reddix was among the first Louisiana Wolf Trap trained Teaching Artists. In many ways, his story also offers an essential piece of YALA’s development as an organization. We wouldn’t be who we are without him.
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When combined with the unique benefits of having children engage with visual arts, music, dance, and poetry, the ways that homeschooling families integrate the arts into their curriculum offers ideas and strategies for achieving academic success as well as the social emotional learning so vital to education.
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As the Louisiana Affiliate of Wolf Trap, YALA supported one of the first Louisiana Wolf Trap trained educators in New Orleans, Ms. Giselle Scott, who is now the Education Supervisor at Educare New Orleans. In 2011, as a new early childhood educator, she noticed that many of her students struggled to recount the sequence of events in stories they read or were told.
When she realized one of the Louisiana Wolf Trap offerings included storytelling, she decided to participate as a teacher in the first Teaching Artist residency. She asked the Resident Teaching Artist Giselle Nakhid to help her integrate storytelling into her regular lessons. Ms. Scott was astonished by how art was used to teach all subjects. "We even had math stories! So not only did it help them with retelling the story, but it helped with simple math concepts."
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Young Audiences of Louisiana (YALA) received a combined award of $350,000 towards arts education programming to benefit children in the Greater New Orleans Area and beyond. The funding provided by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and The Price Fund, singer Lauren Daigle’s global foundation, will support YALA’s Louisiana Wolf Trap Early Learning and After School Arts Enrichment Programs. YALA, Louisiana’s largest provider of arts education programs, served 40,000 children in 2022 alone. The awards will help the organization continue providing quality arts education programming to children of all ages through partner schools, early learning centers, and community centers.
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Young Audiences of Louisiana (YALA) was founded in December of 1962 with one simple goal: bring chamber music to New Orleans children in order to expand access to the arts. Sixty years later, YALA is still working to increase student connection to the arts, but in a variety of ways and through multiple art forms.
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