Youth Arts Collective (YAC)

YAC is a thriving nonprofit art studio and sanctuary for high school and college artists from the Monterey Bay Area. Each artist is individually mentored in art, job, and life skills. They generate work from their own voice in a collective of peers, mentored by professional artists. YACsters go on to the arts, business, medicine, education, journalism knowing how to take risk. YAC is a life changing (sometimes life saving) escort to their best creative selves. It's also the most entertaining place to be in Monterey in the afternoon, because YACsters don't hold back in work or conversation.

Here's where we get to share what it's like in the studios—YACsters deep in their art making zones, and of good times, also our crazy 24hr Artathon and LiveArt. We'll share recent docs, interviews with the founders, and our new series of visits with YAC art collectors. Welcome to Youth Arts Collective!