MISSION STATEMENT

Express Yourself Milwaukee celebrates the power of creative arts to transform the lives of underserved urban youth in our community.

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

Express Yourself empowers at-risk youth through immersion into the world of music, dance and visual arts, yielding lasting, life-changing results. Throughout the year, the youth and artists of Express Yourself spend time creating visual art, performance pieces and set designs for their grand culminating performance.

Our organization celebrates cultural diversity and collaboration by forming long-term partnerships with local agencies serving this demographic, allowing the youth involved in our program to feel less isolated. Through the Express Yourself model, these marginalized young people learn to transform the pressures of their daily existence – poverty, violence, incarceration and drug addiction, to name a few – by learning powerful, creative coping strategies within the artistic process.