Young Audiences of Louisiana hosts live painting fundraiser: YALA Art Live

Young Audiences of Louisiana (YALA) is holding a second YALA Art Live fundraiser this year and permanently moving the event to October. YALA Art Live centers around a unique type of visual performance art: live painting.

Art students from Young Audiences Charter Schools Burmaster, Lincoln Elementary School for the Arts, and West Jefferson High School will pair up with professional New Orleans artists Heather Mattingly, Jessica Strahan, and Emre Karaoglu. Art lovers of all ages are welcome to join the festivities, scheduled to take place on Saturday, October 17 from 12:00 pm to 4:00 pm at Urban South Brewery, 1645 Tchoupitoulas Street.

The local brewery has committed once more to supporting YALA’s arts in education programming, with a Kendra Scott pop-up, a family artmaking station, balloon animals, face painting, the Urban Smash food truck, a raffle, and a Baby ArtsPlay!™ workshop demo at 2:00 pm. Now in its seventh year at Urban South Brewery, the event continues to grow as a community favorite.

YALA Art Live creates a reciprocal relationship wherein students are able to interact with our broader community through the arts, and the community becomes aware of the talent and potential that exists in our New Orleans youth. We strive to help students realize the many opportunities that arts education affords them. Pairing them up with a professional artist shows them they have a future, whether they want to practice professionally or as a hobby.

Jenny James, Executive Director, Young Audiences of Louisiana

Paintings created at the event will be auctioned at YALA’s winter fundraiser in January to support YALA’s early learning and afterschool arts education programs. YALA’s afterschool programs currently operate at five locations across the Greater New Orleans area, combining academics, arts, and culture in order to develop students intellectually and socially.

For more information on YALA Art Live and the arts education programs it will help fund, visit yala.org/artlive. You can also follow YALA on Facebook and Instagram.