135 W Wells Street, Suite 226 • Milwaukee,
WI 53203 • (414) 272-3498 •
exymil@sbcglobal.net
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.