Community Projects

Strengthening our community through the arts.

Journey Home
Journey Home is an arts residency program designed to enable incarcerated women to discover a personal sense of constructive identity through performance, visual arts, creative writing and storytelling. Journey Home allows participants to develop tools that will help them make positive choices and encourages them to break the negative patterns that lead to incarceration.

The program culminates in a performance where the women perform their own choreography, display their visual arts and creative writing projects and tell their stories to community members and prison administration. Journey Home uses art to build personal skills and self-esteem for female inmates from diverse racial and socio-economic backgrounds.

Art of Me
A partnership between ASU Gammage and Greater Phoenix Youth at Risk (PYAR), Art of Me is a series of visual and performing arts workshops that inspire self-esteem and confidence in participating youth. They become the composers of their own destinies and gain positive tools of expression to deter violence, substance abuse and gang-related behaviors.

Art Awakenings
ASU Gammage Exhibition - December 2008
ASU Kerr Cultural Center Exhibition - March 2009

ASU Gammage and PSA Art Awakenings are partnering to provide exhibition opportunities for very special artists of Central Arizona. Art Awakenings provides safe and supportive environments that foster exploration and development of artistic skills for individuals who are challenged by mental illness. ASU Gammage and the Cultural Participation department are very pleased to team with PSA Art Awakenings.