Youth Design Center

Youth Design Center is a youth creative agency and innovation hub providing a gateway for young people to learn marketable hard skills in STEAM, access postsecondary education, achieve economic mobility, and engage in place-based community revitalization. Additional information on Youth Design Center can be found by visiting youthdesigncenter.org.

Modeled as a creative service enterprise, our projects teach design thinking, art, multimedia and communication skills to give young people the technical and leadership tools needed to advocate for themselves and their community. YDC offers studios and mentorship in urban, landscape, and architectural design, printmaking, murals, 3D modeling and fabrication, photography, web design, graphic design and video. Design mentors collaborate with youth on projects that impact the vitality of the community as well as client commissioned creative projects.