YOUTH ART
Programs & Opportunities
Family stARTs Program
the Oak Park Art League offers Family stARTs, a free, drop in youth art making opportunity twice a month for families to create together. The sessions are scheduled on second and fourth Saturdays of each month from 10am - noon. We invite a variety of guest artists to bring different techniques and ideas to these sessions.
Teen Artist Assistant Opportunity
The Oak Park Art League offers Family stARTs, a free drop in youth art making opportunity twice a month for families to create together. We invite a variety of guest artists to bring different techniques and ideas to theses sessions. In addition to this we wanted to offer the guest artists some assistance and area teens with an interest in art, education and working with kids a paid leadership opportunity.
Art for ALL!
We offer our ongoing Family stARTs program but have also been partnering with St. Angela School in the Austin neighborhood of Chicago for three years. With generous sponsorship from the Mammel Family Foundation, OPAL is able to facilitate a visiting art instructor to provide art classes and activities to 190 underserved elementary and high school youth per week.