Quick, Tell a Teen to 🏆 Access to the Arts with Arts Angle Vantage

2024 workshop deadline nears • Join our community. Stay in the know.

• A departure from my standard articles about regional arts and creativity. • 

By Elizabeth Kramer

Since 2018, my great 🥠 fortune has been collaborating with teens as part of Arts Angle Vantage, where teens see art, meet artists and write and report about what is happening in the Louisville area. Then, we work with a partner media outlet to publish articles reviews and photographs. And we maintain their work on our website. Much of this happens through free workshops and always with the guidance of adult mentors who are writers, photographers and journalists.

Giving Teens Access, Spotlighting Teen Voices

Through Arts Angle Vantage, teens have experienced a range of art including touring Broadway productions and works by local theater companies, a performance by The Dance Theatre of Harlem, and exhibits at the Speed Art Museum and KMAC Museum.

Here is just one teen’s reaction to experiencing art in the community and writing about it.

It will push you to be more involved and it will push you to be more aware of things in your community that you maybe weren't aware of before. — Jewel

Our Next Opportunity for Teens

January 2024 🎉 kicks off with our Art of the Profile workshop. (Jan. 6 to Feb. 10, Saturdays, 10 to noon.)

• 📣 • Let teens in your life know about this — or anyone you know who lives or works with teens.

• ⏳ Note that slots are limited and the registration deadline is Jan. 3.

The teen you know might very well have something 🌟 like this to say, as one participant did in 2022.

Not only did it help me become a better writer, it helped me become a better person. — Tia

Art of the Profile will start out giving teens the opportunity to see Kentucky Shakespeare’s “Sense and Sensibility” followed by a session with Amy Attaway, the play’s director and the company’s associate artistic director.

Additional activities and guest artists are part of this workshop to give participants deeper insights into our local arts community.

Connect with Us

Meantime, keep up with us and the teens in Arts Angle Vantage programs through our various community connections.

Many Ways to Get Involved

We are a small team of dedicated adults nurturing this growing and inventive enterprise that gives youth access to the arts and a voice in the community. There are several ways — such as donating time, ideas or dollars — that you can contribute to nurturing the youth voices of our community.

The program gave me a passion for writing again. And it’s been the coolest activity I can look back on when I graduate. — Halle

Elizabeth Kramer writes Louisville Arts Bureau. She is a multimedia journalist who has worked for newspapers and public radio. She was a leading voice on the arts as the fine arts reporter at Louisville’s Courier Journal from 2010 to 2017. Her work has aired on National Public Radio and appeared in national publications. She taught high school as a Peace Corps Volunteer and later was a college instructor in writing and journalism at several universities.