Y ARTS
PRIVATE VIOLIN LESSONS
Join Emily Sue Barker for private violin lessons. Learning to play a musical instrument is incredibly beneficial to a child’s developing brain. Students will be taught using the Suzuki method, which trains the ear and helps develop appropriate technique, rhythm, pitch, and a general love of music. To sign up, contact Emily Sue Barker at
ebarker@ brymca.org
PRIVATE VOICE LESSONS
Join Arts & Humanities Director, Emily Mirabile, for private voice lessons. Students will build a unique repertoire and learn the proper techniques including: proper breathing, posture, vocal diction, song expression, and lyrical interpretation. Contact to sign up.
GLASS FUSION
Participants will explore the basics of glass fusion with glass safety, glass cutting, sketching ideas as a template, and creating a Fall plate or Christmas plate, wind chimes, and Christmas ornaments.
MIXED MEDIA
Participants will start by exploring the basics of drawing through various techniques such as still lifes, shading, and perspective drawing. From there, those drawing skills will be used to create art through watercolor, acrylic painting, printmaking, and glass fusion.
CONGRATULATIONS Y ARTS THEATRE PARTICIPANTS
Students from the YMCA Y-Arts won a national Freddie G Excellence in Ensemble Work award and earned other recognition at the 2020 Junior Theater Festival Atlanta, which happened Jan. 17-19 at The Cobb Galleria Centre in Atlanta. The Junior Theater Festival Atlanta united 7,000 students and educators from 128 educational musical theater groups representing 31 states, as well as Australia, New Zealand, and the U.K.