Youth Spirit Artworks

Portrait of the late longtime Berkeley activist, Michael Diehl, by Inti (Sales/Street Spirit Leader) made using Photoshop. To check out more cool artwork from Inti, go to intigonzalez.com.

Shoutout to Ava Blu (Apprentice) who had a YSA shirt and some mugs with her design on them purchased last week. To buy YSA merchandise go to the Shop tab on our website, youthspiritartworks.org.

everything isn’t what it seems by Ava Blu (Apprentice) made using watercolor and rubbing alcohol during the REC Workshop for the Feels Comic project. The purpose of this workshop is for youth to learn about using art as an art therapy tool and build artistic style referencing various professional artists. For the Feels Comic project youth were prompted to create a comic that expresses a current thought or feeling they’re in. Her comic was about how everything isn’t what it... seems. All things have two sides to them, the good and bad. Join our YSA Studio Workshops that happen throughout the week! For more info go to our website (link in About section).

Day 1 of revamping our Art Lot with our youth led by Senior Artist & Art Director, Miss Z. We brainstormed what makes an outdoor space welcoming, engaging, and interesting. Afterwards we created our own ideal floor plan, removed weeds from the planter boxes, flipped and watered the already present soil in them, trimmed the rosemary plant, swept, organized the wooden benches, and picked weeds coming through the left side fence.

Tune in to the June edition of our monthly open mic poetry event, Asé this Saturday on Zoom! Go to the link below for more info including the Zoom link. Shoutout to Inti (Sales/Street Spirit Leader) for creating this flyer. Date & time June 26th (Saturday) 6:00pm to 7:30pm... Guest poets Jessica Loof Vincent Kovelt https://youthspiritartworks.org/events/

Here is more of our Tiny House Empowerment Village’s prayer & blessing murals fence.

(01/16) Alexandra and her son Henrie loved being apart of the volunteer build day at our village project and said they will be back

The January edition of our monthly open mic poetry event, Ase, is going down this Saturday from 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. on Zoom. Phillip Tnial and Allison Zheng will be our featured guests poets. Shoutout to our Sales/Street Spirit Leader, Inti Gonzalez, for making this flyer. Go to the link below more info including the Zoom link. https://youthspiritartworks.org/events/

If anyone is interested in volunteering at our Tiny House Empowerment Village, we hold volunteer build days every Saturday and Sunday, from 9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the village site (633 Hegenberger Rd. in Oakland). Show up, sign up, and get your hands dirty! Shoutout to our Sales/Street Spirit Leader, Inti Gonzalez, for making this flyer.

Art chair by our Apprentice Leader, Brandon Harris.