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Photographer Bobbie Bush Captures Pure Kid Joy 📸
January 26, 2021
Express Yourself is thrilled to be back with our long– term collaborator, photographer Bobbie Bush again this year! Each year her photographs are the highlight of our annual performance. This year presents a scheduling challenge for our youth to be part of this exciting photo shoot. Bobbie’s artistry in capturing the youths individual expression is always an inspiration! Save the…
Serious Safety: A Covid-19 Public Service Announcement from the ExYo Mentors
January 19, 2021
The ExYo Mentors have been working on a special and timely project this year: creating original Public Service Announcements reflecting on the COVID-19 pandemic, how we can work together to stop the spread and keep each other safe. Mentors and ExYo Staff…
Kicking off the New Year with exciting energy!
January 12, 2021
We are kicking off the new year with exciting energy online, in studio and one to one sessions. This week we will be joined by International STOMP members currently off tour, Carlos Thomas and…
It’s A Wrap 🎁
December 15, 2020
The end of this challenging year has ExYo feeling grateful and hopeful. Grateful for our supportive, engaged community and resilient youth and hopeful as we look ahead to the new year. ExYo youth and…
Holiday Cheer and Generosity Abound!
December 8, 2020
Holiday cheer and the spirit of giving are certainly in the air this December! We extend a giant THANK YOU to everyone who took the time to donate to Express Yourself and our Art…
December 1: Giving Tuesday
November 23, 2020
In just one week we’ll launch our Giving Tuesday campaign, with a goal of raising $5,000 to send 200 Art Boxes to Go to our kids who are at home and in residential treatment…
Sun, Sand and Beach Mandalas
November 16, 2020
On a 72 degree sun filled day, Exyo artists sprung out with colored sand and materials to create a Covid friendly art project at Good Harbor Beach. Youth and staff were thrilled to be…
Jump back into the IMAGINE NATION with ExYo’s Fall Programming
September 11, 2020
ExYo remains dedicated to providing high-quality artistic programming to our youth this fall, bringing a variety of exciting multi-art programs in response to our youth’s unique needs and parent surveys, while balancing the requirements…
Summer Winding Down
August 24, 2020
Express Yourself continued to provide its highly successful arts programming throughout the summer. With art boxes to go both delivered and available for curbside pickup, the youth have had a weekly surprise that they…
Dancing Through Summer
July 27, 2020
ExYo teens have the fun opportunity to choose dance each week with ExYo choreographer James Runner. He motivates and inspires our teens to keep moving during this quarantine summer, integrating old school hip-hop moves…