The dA’s Artbridge outreach programs are shifting perceptions of art from exclusive to inclusive, prioritizing equitable art experiences for all, as well as inviting reflective and real-time connections.

The dA’s Artbridge outreach programs are inviting accessible conversations about visual arts, music, poetry, dance, theatre, and film that ignite transformational and essential lifelong learning.

The dA’s equitable Artbridge outreach programs motivate listening, encouraging, and empowering all ages to be understanding, empathic, inclusive, and creative citizens for a better future.

Ability Arts Lab

The Arts Lab offers children and adults with special needs access to experience visual and performing arts four days a week. Performing arts programs include expressive dance, music, and movement. The visual art classes offer a rich variety of painting using watercolors, acrylics, and watercolors as well as printmaking, clay, found object construction, fiber arts, photography, and crafts.

4th & 6th Grade | Locals & Legends

These programs serve over three-thousand students annually who are inspired to discover ways of seeing, learning, and problem-solving through the arts. The dA designed both programs so that students can connect to real artists living in their own community, understand their sense of place, and have pride in their own hometown of Pomona.

Locals and Legends provide 4th-grade students with experiences in watercolors, pastels, acrylic, and mixed media materials to create a landscape, portrait, still-life, and sculpture. The lessons feature a variety of genres with a spotlight on local Pomona artists and the famous artists who inspired them.

Locals and Legends’ 6th-grade program focuses on civic art through the examination of the “Magulandia in Pomona” Mural. In 2021, the “Magulandia in Pomona” Mural was created by East Los Streetscapers and is a memorial to Gilbert “Magu” Luján. Each week students will learn about this mural and tackle new activities to learn the drafting skills necessary to design a mural.

ArtWorks

Statistics evidence that when youth have access to all of the arts, the arts work to change, improve, and save lives. Young adults are living in stressful times and youth need access to all the arts to gain coping skills for now and for lifelong learning. dA works with experienced artists to invite a safe and shared art exchange to encourage exploring the arts and themselves. dA Artbridge Outreach Art Works for Young Adults program will provide fundamentals of yoga, meditation, poetry, drawing, painting, clay, photography, murals, and collage as well as a culminating exhibition designed by the participants for the public to view. This program includes the 678 Art Club on the PUSD school campuses.

6th Grade A.C.T. - Art & Civic Theatre producing PUSD Newshour

6th Grade students use art, writing, & theatre to deepen their learning of the subjects they are currently studying by creating a PUSD Newshour. Students will compare and contrast ancient and contemporary time periods in science, politics, and cultures. This program is designed to them skills to navigate the 21st Century in and out of the classroom. Through this project-based learning program, students grow individually and collectively as they are part of something bigger. They discover ideas, conflicts, creative solutions to educate and elevate each other.