California Institute of the Arts

The award-winning CalArts Community Arts Partnership, a co-curricular program of the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), offers free, after-school and school-based arts programs for youth ages 6-18 in every discipline taught at CalArts. Programs are offered at public schools, community centers and social service agencies, covering a thousand square mile radius across Los Angeles County. With classes led by a teaching corps of accomplished CalArts faculty, alumni and student instructors, CAP participants learn to create original works of art and to experiment with prevailing conventions of artistic expression. CAP’s success has served as a model for other arts education organizations locally and nationally, and the program has received numerous honors, including The President’s Committee on Arts and Humanities’ National Youth Program Award, which recognizes exemplary programs that foster the creative and intellectual development of America’s children.