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YA National Network

A nationwide initiative to bring the arts to education.

Arts for Learning is one of over 30 affiliates who are a part of a national organization called Young Audiences Arts for Learning. The organization serves as the nation’s largest arts in education learning network, serving over 5 million children and youth each year in 7,000 schools and community centers across the country.

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Quick facts:

  • Arts for Learning is more than 65 years old and was established in 1952.
  • A National Network: The nation’s largest arts in education learning network, serving over 5 million children and youth each year in 8,984 schools and community centers across the country through its diverse network of 30 local affiliates.
  • Arts for Learning is an association of affiliated organizations that are each dedicated to local education and community development. The YA network collectively works together to impact arts in education practices and policies on a national level.
  • Arts for Learning advocates for the YA network and the arts-in-education field, coordinating national advocacy efforts through a National Young Audiences Week every March.
  • Arts for Learning connects exceptional teaching artists with teachers to provide in-depth arts residencies that raise academic and artistic achievement, while enhancing and developing learning skills that translate across curriculums.

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Phone: 757-466-7555

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Arts for Learning
420 North Center Drive, Suite 239
Norfolk, Virginia 23502
Phone: 757-466-7555
Fax: 757-455-9859

Our Stories

Arts for Learning Delivers Creative Summer Camps at the Suffolk Center

We’re busy planning three exceptional summer camps in Musical Theater, Visual Art, and S.T.E.A.M. in partnership for the ninth year with the Suffolk Center For Cultural Arts. Campers in third to fifth grades will immerse themselves in each theme as they work with professional teaching artists Monday to Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. HURRY: […]

A Program that Makes a Real Impact

After two years of being shut down because of the pandemic, Strings Impact is up and running again in Portsmouth Public Schools! We’re celebrating a successful kickoff of this long-running residency that introduces fourth, fifth, and sixth graders to playing the violin, with instruments provided by the schools. The program is taking place after-school at […]

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