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YAYA Alumni in the News

2022

Jourdan Barnes: I Know a Place at Antenna Gallery

Lionel Milton in Salon

Lionel Milton: NOLA.com

Various Alumni: St Charles Avenue - Just Say YAYA: Art is Essential to Benefitting YAYA

Derroles Taylor: Preservation Hall features hand-painted Carnival gown

Various Alumni: Gambit - Better Together NOLA

Rontherin Ratliff: Level Artist Collective exhibits at Octavia Gallery

2021

Nik Richard: National Performance Network Take Notice Fund Award

Gerard Caliste: Culture Map Houston

Rondell Crier, Rontherin Ratliff & Monica Tyran: Duality at Stove Works

Sharika Mahdi: 4WWL - St. Charles art teacher gives inspiration to new 'The Princess and the Frog' Disney ride

Sharika Mahdi in The Disney Blog

Paul Michael Wright: Arts Thread

Joseph Brandon Thomas: Fummer Sun at Rorey Divine Fine Art

Rontherin Ratliff: #3DMISSISSIPPI Sculpture Exhibit

Rondell Crier: The Champion - Murals tell stories, reflect pride in Chatanooga

Rontherin Ratliff & LEVEL Artist Collective: Public Artwork unveiled at Juneteenth Celebration

Rondell Crier: The Chatanoogan - EPB Unveils 10th Street Mural Artists Project

Paul Michael Wright: Scholarship Announcement

Paul Michael Wright: The One Club

Nik Richard: A new mural project highlights arts, community, Black voices in New Orleans

Jourdan Barnes: Joan Mitchell Foundation - In the Studio

Jourdan Barnes & Kara Crowley: Deep South by Suroeste at Stella Jones Gallery

Various Alumni: New Orleans - Just Say YAYA at Home

Jourdan Barnes: The Bakery Atlanta - Something's Missing

2020

Rontherin Ratliff: Radical Freedom Dream at Studio Be

Kara Crowley & Jourdan Barnes: Join Joan Mitchell Center Residency

Jourdan Barnes: Joan Mitchell Center Residency

Kara Crowley: Joan Mitchell Center Residency

Lionel Milton in Very Local

Rontherin Ratliff: Stove Works Studio Visit (watch the video)

Gerard Caliste: Culture Map Houston

Rontherin Ratliff: Arts New Orleans - Meet the Artists

Nik Richard & collaborator Monica Rose Kelly: The Spirit of Lower Mid-City

2019

Rondell Crier, Jourdan Barnes, Kawayne Powell, Paul Michael Wright: Peter & the Wolf at the CAC

Rontherin Ratliff: LEVEL Exhibit

Derroles Taylor on Fox 8 News 

Rontherin Ratliff: Finding Way Exhibit

Gerard Caliste: The Houston Chronicle

Paul Michael Wright: Scholarship Announcement

Jourdan Barnes, Kara Crowley, Paul Michael Wright & Rontherin Ratliff: Luna Fine Art Gallery

Rontherin Ratliff: Grant Announcement

Gerard Caliste & Rontherin Ratliff: Historic New Orleans Collection

Gerard Caliste: Houston Independent School District Blog

2018

YAYA's 30th Anniversary on Nola.com

Timeka Junius & Jana Napoli in St. Charles Avenue Magazine

Gerard Caliste: Fresh Milk Barbados Podcast

Rondell Crier in the New York Times 

2017

Kara Crowley: Group Exhibit in the New Orleans Advocate

Rondell Crier: WDEF - Meet August “Do the Right Thing” Winner

Gerard Caliste in Sugarcane Magazine

Rondell Crier: Chattanooga Maker Faire

2016

Rondell Crier: Award Announcement

2015

YAYA & Timeka Junius in Gambit

YAYA & Timeka Junius in Tulane News

Rontherin Ratliff: National Performance Network

YAYA & Julia Irons in My New Orleans

NOLA.com - Alumni of YAYA design program get grants

2014

Julia Irons & Lester Bloom: NOLA.com - YAYA Gala celebrates arts group's future

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