Yeah, Art! is a Black-founded, Oakland-based nonprofit making arts education more equitable.
This Black History Month, our org is aiming to raise $25,000 to develop and teach our “Dream City” lesson plan, an intro to extended reality that allows our students to animate their dreams into a collaborative 3D world.
This amount will enable Yeah, Art! to carry out our curriculum in Oakland public schools; and provide a radically ethical wage for our diverse team of Teaching Artists. A suggested donation of $125 provides (1) hour of arts instruction for 30 students.
Yeah, Art! acknowledges that teachers — especially arts teachers — are drastically underpaid. For this reason, we pay our Teaching Artists the radically ethical wage of $125 per hour. This ensures our Teaching Artists are compensated for not only their time in the classroom, but their hours of preparation and travel to and from, as well as the years of training and experience that contribute to their artistic excellence. This wage enables Yeah, Art! to support our students with the best arts instruction AND financially empower the most talented artists right here in our community.
Yeah, Art! is based in Oakland — a rich, artistic community where creative legends blossom. Your donation could plant the seed for Oakland’s next creative legend to start growing towards their purpose. Your support is crucial to our mission and beyond appreciated.
With gratitude,
Ja Ronn Thompson and Mike Blankenship
Yeah, Art! Co-Founders
All proceeds go toward arts education programming in Bay Area schools and supporting our team of teaching artists. Visit our website www.yeahart.org to see what we've been up to.
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