Arts for Learning Northwest In-School Arts Programs

Arts for Learning Northwest In-School Programs offers Arts for Learning Northwest Performances, Arts for Learning Northwest Residencies, workshops, and Family Arts Night workshops in school settings. An Arts for Learning Northwest Performance introduces students to an art form or culture through demonstration, entertainment, education, and audience participation. An Arts for Learning Northwest Residency is a sequential series of at least three visits by an individual artist with a classroom and is structured to immerse students in a long-term creative experience in a particular art form. Through workshops, artists provide an introductory encounter with an art form for students, teachers, and families.

• Schedule: In-school performances, residencies, workshops, and Family Arts Night workshops

Arts for Learning Northwest offers educational arts programming in multiple disciplines to Portland area schools and is described as the only arts organization in the region to offer a full range of educational arts programming in multiple disciplines and cultures. The organization’s mission is connecting young people with diverse arts and creative experiences, and making the arts abundantly accessible in schools and communities. Arts for Learning Northwest was founded in 1958 under the name Young Audiences of Oregon as a local chapter of a national arts-in-education organization, and in 1989 it merged with a smaller chapter in Vancouver to become Young Audiences of Oregon & SW Washington. The Right Brain Initiative is described as a partnership between school districts and the cultural community to integrate arts programming into Portland area schools. Young Audiences of Oregon Inc receives support from the Oregon Arts Commission, a state agency funded by the State of Oregon.

Last updated June 28, 2026.