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Youth Art Collaborative of Santa Ana (YACSA) <br />Staff, Board, and Artist Collaborative Partners Description <br />Santa Ana Undies is a free year round afterschool educational and arts resource center and boxing and <br />martial arts program to low-income/at-risk Santa Ana youth 12 -18 years old that uses art and cultural <br />arts to participate in gang intervention/prevention programs that empower youth to thrive and transition <br />to a healthy, happy, productive and economically viable adulthood. Jonathan Ryan Hernandez grew up in <br />Artesia Pilar and lives in Santa Ana. <br />Brian Peterson, Santa Ana resident and Faces of Santa Ana inspires others to see the beauty and uniqueness <br />inside those who feel invisible. Our art carries the power to love, humanize, share stories and financially support <br />our neighbors without homes. Faces of Santa Ana is a passion project that befriends and painst portraits of the <br />homeless community in Santa Ana, CA. Faces sell the artwork and use proceeds to help in rehabilitating our <br />newfound friends. The mission of Faces of Santa Ana is to locally help those in need in cities around the world <br />while also inspiring and activating creatives and supporters of the movement. We believe that the creativity <br />we've been given is meant for the outward pouring of love. Brian lives in the Santa Ana Artist Village. <br />Vicky Otero and Inspyr Arts is a creative arts studio and arts organization that provides high quality arts <br />programming in classical drawing and painting, creative art, and digital art while impacting the lives of <br />community members through art. Their mission is to use the visual arts to foster positive personal growth, by <br />combining creativity and step-by-step mentoring to giude oin students in creating wonderful masterpieces, and <br />having lots of fun along the way! Vicky work with Santa Ana youth through California Arts and Leadership 24 <br />project and OC Department of Education ACCESS. hispyr Arts is passionately dedicated to providing and <br />creating art, designing arts programs and curriculum that foster positive personal growth for youth. Inspyr Arts <br />serves an average of 3600 youth a year at its arts studio facility and other programs that implements a school <br />fine and modern arts education and helps develop art programs for various groups an non -profits. <br />Joey Linnert is an ecological earth artist/land steward with New Earth Life and with a mission to empower <br />through creative organic projects our community to live a self-reliant, healthy life. As a new earth artist, Joey <br />provides mentor -based arts, educational, and vocational programs that empower juvenile justice and system <br />involved youth ages 13-25 to transform their lives, move toward positive, healthier life choices, and realize their <br />full potential as contributing members of our community. Joey lives in Santa Ana and teaches the community to <br />develop community farms and change the local food system to prevent hunger and connect communities to <br />health nurturing lifestyles. Joey was one of the artists that participated in the Incarceration Crisis Project at the <br />Orange County Center for Contemporary Art (OCCCA) in February 2017. He was part of a panel during the <br />Boca de Oro: Art & Literature Festival Incarceration Crisis:"Overcoming Recidivism" and Fluent <br />Words of Love. Joey works with incarcerated youth and create organic art food sculptures and gardens. <br />Roles: <br />Santa Ana Unidos will be the lead agency and administrator for the collaborative. Unidos will assist in <br />coordinating outreach to community groups for participants. Unidos will focus on the Gala event and the public <br />display event. Unidos will coordinate press coverage with you. Unidos will administer and distribute the funds <br />and collect reports. Unidos with video and take photographers of the projects. The Collaborative Artists will <br />engage and work with neighborhood associations and the children and youth and their families from <br />neighborhoods in each ward. Community engagement mural events will be created on canvas at public and <br />private spaces. The six community events will culminate with a final presentation community event at Delhi <br />Community Center called Roses in Concrete. The entire project will be filmed and documented from beginning <br />