YAP RETURNS WITH ANCIENT ART

YAP, the Center for Community Arts Youth Arts Program for grades 5-8, resumes January 20 at 6:00 p.m. in Cape May, Wildwood and Lower Township. This free program provides a light supper and art activities led by professional artists. This semester’s theme is “Art of Ancient Cultures.” On January 20, participants will make an Ancient Roman mosaic clock.

YAP is in Lyle Hall (or a lower level classroom) at the Cape May United Methodist Church,

at Cape Assist’s Kare Center, 3819 New Jersey Avenue in Wildwood, and

at the Millman Center, 209 Bayshore Road in Villas.

It is led by Janet Payne and Laura McPherson in Cape May, Trish Fox and Amanda Vernon in Wildwood, and Cheryl Crews in Lower Township.

YAP continues with the same activity at all three sites: On January 27, decorate your own Chinese Ming Dynasty porcelain; February 3 create an Ancient Greek Cycladic Statue; February 24 Make a Canopic Jar to store your own treasures; March 3 create an ancient Aztec Mask. The program continues most Saturdays through April 28. For a detailed schedule call 884-7525 or see http://www.centerforcommunityarts.org/yap.htm and download the schedule in PDF.

There is a day trip to the King Tut Exhibit at the Franklin Institute on February 10. The trip is free for YAP participants, but an advance deposit and special permission slip are required.

Center for Community Arts is a multicultural educational nonprofit organization whose arts and humanities programs foster creativity, community building, and appreciation for the rich diversity of our world. CCA is rehabilitating the Franklin Street School, a Cape May African American Historic Site, to house a community cultural center, and recently launched WCFA 101.5 FM, a mostly-jazz community radio station. For further information, call 609-884-7525 or access CCA’s Web site at www.CenterforCommunityArts.org.

YAP is made possible by grants from the Lower Cape Alliance, the Byrne Fund for Wildwood, Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts, and many other businesses and individuals.