YAP YOUTH ARTS PROGRAM IN WILDWOOD

The free Center for Community Arts YAP-Saturday Night in Wildwood resumes 6:00 p.m., October 15 at Cape Assist’s Kare Center, 3819 New Jersey Avenue at Spicer. The Youth Arts Program provides free art workshops and pizza for youths in grades 5, 6, 7 and 8. Using the theme, “The Art of Games,” participants will explore different artistic media while learning about games from various cultures and periods in history, starting with Nine Man Morris, a game from ancient Egypt. The program is led by artist-teachers Steven Kean of Ocean City and Michelle Mason of Villas.

YAP is free, but parents must sign a permission slip in person the first time the youth attends. Prizes of day-passes to Morey’s Piers or Water Park will be given to youths who arrive on time and attend every fall session. The program is presented in cooperation with the Healthy Community Coalition.

The work of the Center’s summer YAP programs is on display this month at the Noyes Museum of Art in Oceanville, NJ. Fall YAP art works will be exhibited at a county-wide Youth Arts Fair in the spring.

Center for Community Arts YAP programs in Wildwood are made by possible by grants from the Byrne Fund for Wildwood, the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts, and many generous businesses and individuals. Day passes are donated by Morey’s Piers.

For a detailed schedule and further information, please call 884-7525.

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