Youth Art Team

Thursday, January 1, 2015

We moved!

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Our team designed a logo and created a website together!

Check them out here: youthartteam.com

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For the most recent updates: facebook.com/YouthArtTeam

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Wednesday, December 10, 2014

Give a gift to support Youth Art Team!

For the first time, you can make a gift for the holidays in support of the Youth Art Team!

Youth Art Team is hosted by Link Christian Community Development. Link was formed through a partnership between two local churches: Orchard Hill Church (Cedar Falls) and Harvest Vineyard Church (Waterloo).

You may give one of two ways this season!

To give through Link:

Give online here through Link's website (PayPal).
Write a check payable to Link CCD with "Youth Art Team" in the memo and mail to: 715 East 4th Street; Waterloo, IA 50703.

To give through Orchard:

Give online here through Orchard (PushPay). Please be sure to type "Link / Youth Art Team" in the memo!
Write a check payable to Orchard Hill Church with "Link / Youth Art Team" in the memo and mail to: 3900 Orchard Hill Drive; Cedar Falls, IA 50613.

Both options are tax-deductible.

If you are giving to Youth Art Team in someone's honor this Christmas, you can download and print this card to sign and give. Just print and fold into fourths. (Tip: Prints best at actual size, not scale to print.)

Merry Christmas from the Youth Art Team!

Tuesday, November 18, 2014

Final weeks of The Viewfinder Project

Don't miss your chance to check out Youth Art Team's photography exhibition, The Viewfinder Project, in its final weeks at the Waterloo Center for the Arts.

Youth Art Team used photography to help people of all ages see life differently, challenging them to use creative thinking in becoming community change makers. Addressing questions such as “What is Ugly?” and “What is Beautiful?” members learned elements of photography including shape, line, shadow, and others. After 16 meetings, the team documented Waterloo’s historic Walnut Neighborhood where they meet.

Learn more about how your group can participate in The Viewfinder Project, a project that reaches young people nationally and internationally. The Viewfinder Project grants free access to the curriculum when you agree to their licensing terms, and they were fantastic to work with.

Youth Art Team photographs are available for purchase!
We can even ship them as Christmas gifts for you. See ordering deadlines below.

To purchase:

View the exhibition at the Waterloo Center for the Arts and choose from 50 photographs – framed prints and prints on canvas – by 25 artists ages 5-18. Admission is free. See the front desk to order. All profits directly support the Youth Art Team's ongoing work!

Waterloo Center for the Arts is located at 225 Commercial St, Waterloo (map). Gallery hours are Tue-Sat (10am-5pm), Sun (1-5pm), closed Mon.

Ordering deadlines:

Friday, Dec. 5 (orders requiring shipping by Christmas)

Friday, Dec. 12* (for local pickup by Sunday, Dec. 21)

*Last chance to order photographs! The Viewfinder Project is only on display through the end of the year.

(Thank you to Matt of Rafferty Productions for creating this video for Youth Art Team!)

Friday, April 4, 2014

The Viewfinder Project - on display now!

The Youth Art Team's photographs are now on display at the Waterloo Center for the Arts! Free and open to the public.

Regular gallery hours: Tue-Sat 10am-5pm // Sun 1-5pm // Closed Mon

Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Opening Thu. April 3!

www.waterloocenterforthearts.org

Thursday, February 27, 2014

Exciting announcement!

The Youth Art Team reassembled for the first time in 2014 to celebrate big news! After the team canvassed the same neighborhood with cameras for 16 weeks in 2013, the Waterloo Center for the Arts will soon display 50 of their finest photographs in a public exhibition.

Students worked hard after celebrating that day. They had a lot to prepare...

Stay tuned, details will be announced soon!

Thursday, October 24, 2013

Carving pumpkins at Visual Logic!

The Youth Art Team's friends at Visual Logic invited everyone over to carve pumpkins today. It was a nice little break from photography.

Visual Logic supported the Youth Art Team's work as they prepared for their play in 2011-12. They also helped send the team to Chicago in the summer of 2013.

We had so much fun today, thank you!

Monday, October 14, 2013

Week Fourteen: Storybook

This week students received an introduction to photojournalism. First, the Youth Art Team took a look at how photographers at the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier made decisions about how to tell the Youth Art Team's story in 2010, 2011, and 2012. Then as photojournalists, people who tell a story primarily through photographs, the Youth Art Team needed an experience to document with their cameras!

Students grouped into teams of two or three. The first group drew and/or painted a piece of artwork about what it means to be a peacemaker. While the second group photographed the process, students finished their artwork and walked with grownups to the homes of neighbors in the Walnut Neighborhood surrounding Harvest Vineyard Church, giving their artwork as gifts. Then they came back and switched, so each student had a chance to create and give a piece of artwork and to photograph the event.

"Blessed are the peacemakers..." (Matthew 5:9)

Above photo © Diontus (age 10) 2013

Above artwork © Jaxon (age 9) 2013

Above photo © Diontus (age 10) 2013

Above photo © Jaxon (age 9) 2013

Above artwork © Diontus (age 10) 2013

Above photo © Jaxon (age 9) 2013

Above photo © Niara (age 5) 2013

Above artwork © Aerz (age 6) 2013

Above photo © Niara (age 5) 2013

Above photo © Aerz (age 6) 2013

Above artwork © Niara (age 5) 2013

Above photo © Aerz (age 6) 2013

Above photo © Dayton (age 8) 2013

Above artwork © Corin (age 7) 2013

Above photo © Dayton (age 8) 2013
*This good neighbor helped the Youth Art Team in 2011. Click here and scroll to the bottom.

Above photo © Corin (age 7) 2013

Above artwork © Dayon (age 8) 2013

Above photo © Corin (age 7) 2013

Above artwork © Jayda T. (age 10) 2013

Above photo © Emma (age 9) 2013
* Emma's camera malfunctioned and only saved this one photo. She plans to paint Jayda's experience instead. Watch this space.

Above photo © Jayda T. (age 10) 2013

Above artwork © Emma (age 9) 2013

Above photo © Jayda T. (age 10) 2013

Above photo © Austin (age 5) 2013

Above artwork © Joshua (age 17) 2013

Above photo © Kasius (age 11) 2013

Above photo © Austin (age 5) 2013

Above photo © Kasius (age 11) 2013

Above photo © Tajian (age 5) 2013

When the group reassembled back at Harvest, students shared a little bit about the people they met and considered how the Youth Art Team acted as peacemakers that day.

Next week students will sort through their prints and add captions to tell the story of their day before moving onto the next lesson!