Atlas Programs

At Atlas, we provide a safe space for high school students to gain a better understanding of themselves through art. Our free programs meet 5:30-7:30 p.m. Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays during the school year, for eight weekly sessions. Give your high schooler the opportunity to let their creavity soar at Atlas!

Learn about our current teen program offerings. You can sign up for as many programs as you'd like, but we are looking for teens who can make a commitment to all nine weeks.
 

Spring 2019 Programs (April 8-June 3)

Fashion From The Ground Up
Mondays | 5:30-7:30 p.m.
Program Description: Calling all fashionistas! Learn how to create your own sustainable fashions using recycled materials.

Word of Art 
Tuesdays | 5:30-7:30 p.m.
Program Descriptions: Let your creativity soar! Design your own masterpiece through a variety of mediums and then use your art as inspiration to write poems and stories about identity, acceptance, and empathy. 

Self Portraits
Wednesdays | 5:30-7:30 p.m.
Program Descriptions: Express yourself! Create your own self portrait while learning different art and drawing techniques. See how you can create a true representation of yourself through art.

   

Winter 2019 Programs (January 28-March 25)

What Had Happened: The Art of Storytelling
Mondays | 5:30-7:30 p.m.
Program Description: A writing and storytelling performance program that uses paper, pen, our voices to tell stories like none other.

Comedy 
Tuesdays | 5:30-7:30 p.m.
Program Descriptions: Comedy gets you out of your head and is an invaluable skill in any writing or performance art form. Most importantly, it's super fun!

Digital Selfies 
Wednesdays | 5:30-7:30 p.m.
Program Descriptions: Using digital media and photography, students will create life size stencil portraits depicting their true selves.

 

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Teen Leadership Council
Our teen leaders are a special group of teens who are working on projects that develop their voice and leadership. For example, in 2016 the Teen Leadership Council participated in the 2016 RVA Street Art Festival working with Heide Trepanier on a mural arts program.  

We Believe in Young People

Each young person is a valuable part of our community. We promise to offer a supportive and nurturing environment, which allows our young people an opportunity to bring into being the beauty that exists within their creative spirits.

We Believe in Creative Expression

Everyone will be free to be an artist who can give birth to a masterpiece, because we recognize that innovation is the heartbeat of growth.

We Believe in Communication

We seek to provoke ideas and stimulate conversation that encourages self-awareness and expression of diverse perspectives, remove barriers of fear, create a better understanding of humanity, and illuminate hope.

We Believe in Compassion

We advocate kindness to heal division and resolve conflicts, because everyone has a right to be heard, to experience love, and to be treated with dignity and mutual respect.

We Believe in Community

We value the importance of collaborative relationships, which celebrate diversity. We recognize that by sharing together we're capable of making even greater creative contributions that can enhance the well-being and quality of life for the whole.

We Believe in Change

We embrace change as a gift that empowers young people to transform our world through creative expression. It provides opportunities to be passionately engaged in a natural process of learning, challenging complacency and discovering opportunities to live a meaningful life.