Youth. Creative. agency.
WHAT WE DO.
Youth Design Center is a youth creative agency and innovation hub providing a gateway for young people to learn marketable hard skills in STEAM, access post-secondary education, achieve economic mobility, and engage in place-based community revitalization.
HOW WE DO IT
Modeled as a creative service agency, our projects teach design thinking, art, multimedia, tech and communication skills to give young people the technical and leadership tools they need to compete in the innovation economy and to be leaders in their community. YDC offers studios and mentorship in printmaking, fine arts, spatial and product design, fabrication, photography, coding, graphic design, video and animation. Design mentors collaborate with youth on projects that add value to their community as well as client commissioned creative projects.
QUARDEAN LEWIS-ALLEN
FOUNDER AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
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Muhammad Floyd
DIGITAL MEDIA MENTOR
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OUR VILLAGE
PAST Contributing Practitioners
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Current Alumni Freelancers
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Past Teaching Artists
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Artist-in-Residence
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Past Interns
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Our Board
Steven Clunis
Former Senior Manager, at The Walt Disney Studios
Jerry Blaine
Chief Executive Officer, LDI Color ToolBox
Rasmia Kirmani
Consultant | Board Chair
Julie Torres Moskovitz
Principal, FNA Studio
Ana Frink
Creative/Design Consultant | Founder of Cre8ve Studio | Alumni Board Member
Darian Dawkins
Alumni Board Member
