Established in 2019, the AZ Youth Arts Council advises the Arts Commission on grant programs and initiatives that directly bear on immature people. As they exercise so over the side by side 9 months, they will review issues related to arts and civilization programs and services for young people and acquire about policy related to equal admission to the arts for all young people in Arizona.

AZ Youth Arts Council Members…

  • Acquire about policy to advocate for equal access to the arts for all immature people in Arizona
  • Propose the Arts Commission on grant programs and initiatives that straight affect immature people
  • Administer a Youth Engagement Grant in their community
  • Review issues related to arts and culture programs and services for young people
  • Create arts and media projects highlighting the arts in their communities
  • Receive a stipend of up to $800

2021-22 AZ Youth Arts Council Members

Alexis Archer (she/her)
Phoenix

My proper name is Alexis, I'm a junior at Horizon High Schoolhouse, and I am so happy to call myself a fellow member of this council! I am extremely passionate almost the arts and using information technology as a form of self-expression and vehicle for change. I took my first dance form when I was two years old and have since fallen in love with singing, interim, and everything musical theatre! I have acted in several productions at various theaters in the valley, am taking ballet, jazz, and phonation lessons weekly, have been an active fellow member in show choir for 4 years, and banana-taught musical theatre fall classes ii years in a row. I have too worked in music videos, film, and song recording every bit well as am the captain of an improv team, and involved with drama club, Tri-K, NHS, and Society of Women's Scholars at my school. My number one priority is e'er to amend as an artist and person, and because helping others is my passion, I love profitable in the growth of the people around me. My goal is to brand art more hands accessible within our customs and assist people find their passion so they can use it to express themselves!

Malcolm Barrios (hi/him)
Tucson

My name is Malcolm Barrios. I am 16 and a junior in high school this year. I've been playing the violin for ten years and bask beingness part of my school orchestra. I likewise started mixing music concluding year every bit a hobby. I similar running and playing basketball, and want to play on my school's varsity team this twelvemonth. I really enjoy volunteering and improving my community. I volunteer at the local library and with a grouping called Assisteens of Tucson. I'm very exited to be part of the Youth Arts Council this twelvemonth!

Zoë Benavidez (she/her)
Tucson

My chosen fine art forms are theatre, film, dance and writing. I honey to build worlds that we can escape into and bring characters to life using my fine art. It is a truly rewarding procedure and I couldn't imagine doing anything else in my life. I am currently living in Tucson and am a function of my high school's extensive theatre department, where I human action in our annual productions. I also participate in my school'southward dance program, where I study Modern dance. Yous can typically observe me with my nose in a good book, typing away on a Google Medico that holds my latest writing projection and dancing erratically to good music. I am honored to be on the quango for the 2nd twelvemonth in a row. Terminal year, I learned then much from my fellow Arizona artists and grew in means I could never have imagined. I promise to do the same this year.

Cina Curley (she/her)
 Chinle

I am from the center of the Navajo Nation: Chinle, Arizona. I am from the Navajo tribe. My clans are Natalia Dine'é, Ma'ii Deeshgiizhnii, Tł'ááshchi'í, and Tł'ááshchi'í. I played in band in high schoolhouse. I was a percussionist. I also played softball in high school every bit an outfielder. I graduated in May of 2020. I am currently attention Harvard Higher, and on a gap year I'm looking to concentrate in psychology when I return for my sophomore year. I'k aspiring to exist become a child/adolescent psychologist, and return to my community to share my education with the Navajo people.

Marsh Kramer (they/them)

My proper name is Marsh, I'g xvi and I don't come from some fancy fine art schoolhouse background, and I have never taken a real fine art course in my life. I don't think information technology's necessary for anyone who has the bulldoze and passion. I think everyone should be allowed access to free fine art supplies and liberty to create whatever they can imagine. Fine art is a tool to fight oppression in our society and bring together a stronger customs. I enjoy making all kinds of art in every medium, just I particularly enjoy customizing dress, creating zines, writing music, and doodling anything I tin can think of. I am an active fellow member of my customs and you can normally spot me throwing downward at hardcore punk shows on the weekends and supporting small artists and vendors at events. I'm extremely passionate well-nigh music and listen to a lot of different genres just my favorite bands correct now are the Dead Kennedys, The Birthday Party, Neutral Milk Hotel, Bikini Kill, Bad Brains, Talking Heads, and The Dresden Dolls. I take a lot of inspirations when information technology comes to my fine art, only the chief artists I look upwards to are Jello Biafra, Nick Cave, Shawn Kerri, Jeff Mangum, Sam Hensley, and Chester Simpson, nearly of which are punk or otherwise political artists. I similar to incorporate political ideals into my art as I see art as a form of activism and radical awareness.

Sabrina Manson (they/them)
Nogales

How-do-you-do, my name is Sabrina Manson, I'thousand a 17-year-old junior at Nogales Loftier schoolhouse. My main focus of involvement is Illustration and animation. In proverb that, I hope to achieve my dream of attending California Institute of the Arts or Cal Arts. This Higher is one of the premier colleges in Animation with graduates such as Tim Burton and John Lasseter, Executive producer of Pixar. In Art, my main focus is with characters and backgrounds, my passion seems to work on character pattern. Inside the Graphic symbol pattern I too experiment in writing near the characters and their stories. This has been a passion of mine ever since I was in elementary school. To a betoken that I have fixated on a single story for 6 years straight. I'one thousand proud of how far the story has progressed and the details information technology entails. One of my main hobbies is playing video games. I mostly play RPG games and Activity games. Some of my favorite games are Stardew Valley, Undertale, and Legend of Zelda. I think this is where some of my creative blueprint is developed. In the end my chief goal is to piece of work at Pixar blitheness studios and work on animated films. I have dreamt this since I was very young. Hopefully my goal is accomplished later on High Schoolhouse.

Stephanie Martin Del Campo
Yuma

My proper noun is Stephanie, i am a 17 year one-time creative person. I accept been an artist since i was 12, simply started selling my art very recently. Art has always been part of my life and information technology is something i truly savour and want to share with my community. One of my happiest and primeval memories was when my older sister was teaching me how to pigment with acrylics. It was something i loved then I am extremely grateful for that. I believe being involved in the arts and educational activity others about it, can help change a lot of people and is something truly special. I too very recently learned how to brand ceramic pieces, so i also very grateful to my teachers for helping me learn a new skill.

Eimi Obana (she/her)
Yuma

I am a Senior at Gila Ridge Loftier School and my hobbies are dancing and interim. I have been dancing, mainly ballet, since I was pocket-sized and I'k currently the Vice President of the dance team at my school. I started performing at my community theater at the Yuma Art Center when I started the 5th grade and wanted to make friends merely didn't know how to. That'due south when my parents saw and advertisement for a kids production of Cinderella and enrolled me into the program. I loved information technology so much, I went back to do every single production subsequently that. Now I have some of the best friends because of it and am extremely obsessed with musical theater (mayhap only a tad unhealthy). Finding a love for the arts helped me come out of my shell and socialize with people that accept the same interests as me and also helped me shape the person I am today.

Lily Rochin (she/her)
Glendale

Hullo! My name is Lily Rochin. I am an creative person attending metropolitan arts institute in the inferior twelvemonth. My practices lie in costume and fashion design as well as visual arts and contemporary trip the light fantastic toe. I await forward to working with fellow council members to learn how to make fine art programs ameliorate for students in the Arizona public educational activity system. Please look forward to our piece of work together and the difference we promise to encourage for the do good of our communities generation of young artists. Thanks.

Molly Ruley (she/her)
Mesa

My name is Molly Ruley, I'm 17 years old, and I'thousand a senior at Arete Prep Academy in Gilbert. I am an abet for the arts, and I was on Chandler Center for the Art's Youth Arts Council last year. I am both a hard worker and a trouble solver. I'grand jovial with strong leadership abilities. Since I was 6, I have been a competitive Irish dancer, and I have competed at the national level. I love painting and drawing, too equally singing in choir. I too more than recently started competing in scholarship pageants through the Miss Arizona Organization. My hobbies are reading, doing crafts, and exercising.

Ella Wang (she/her)
Chandler

Hi! I'thousand Ella, and I'm a senior attending high school at Basis Chandler. I've lived in Chandler for most of my life, and I honey the arts as a course of cocky expression and personal creativity. I specialize in acrylic painting, but am always exploring other mediums like charcoal, colored pencil, and ink. I started an art business with friends, and I enjoy connecting with my community through art classes and creating new works to share with others. At school, I am also involved in spoken language & debate, robotics, and scientific research, and fine art is a unique manner to bring rest and creative freedom in my life. This is my 2d yr serving on the quango, and I expect forwards to standing to stand for Maricopa and advancing disinterestedness, admission, and opportunity in the arts for youth in Arizona!

Katherine Wei (she/her)
Chandler

Hello! I am a 16-twelvemonth-old high school senior at BASIS Chandler and an avid poet, highly engaged in the literary arts. I have been writing since the beginning of high schoolhouse and enjoy sharing my stories equally a 2nd-generation Asian-American through my work. My poems take been recognized past the National Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, the National Council of Teachers of English, Princeton Academy, and more. Across writing, I besides fiddle in the visual arts, specifically acrylic painting. The arts have been highly influential in my life, not merely as a creative outlet but also every bit a means of both being and giving a voice to underrepresented groups. I am and then honored to serve on the AZ Youth Arts Council this yr, and I tin't look to make a positive affect on our community by supporting other young artists in their journeying through their passions.

Kathie Rose Wilbur (she/her)
 Tucson

Hello! I am currently xvi years sometime and a junior at University High Schoolhouse. This year volition mark the ninth year I have played pianoforte. In the past, I have likewise participated in acting, choir, and musical theater. Through these activities, art has proven its ability to me. It is a method of expression, escape, community, and near importantly–a way to take fun. Even with forms that I have struggled more than with, such as drawing, painting, and writing, the exposure has helped me open the doors of inventiveness. I believe all people, specially youth, should take the privilege of experiencing art, and I am honored to help with that effort.

Margot Wilder (she/her)
Flagstaff

Hi, my name is Margot! I am 16 years old and I am currently a junior at Northland Preparatory Academy in Flagstaff, AZ. I have been dancing ballet since I was three years quondam and I am a student at the Royal Academy of Dance. I regularly perform in community-wide events, similar the Flagstaff Festival of Science and the Flagtsaff Symphony Orchestra's production of The Nutcracker. I am enrolled in both French and Spanish college courses and involved in my school's Model Un Club. I am very passionate about our state's politics and I am interested in pursuing a career in law or international relations in the hereafter. Outside of school and ballet, I honey to backpack with my family unit, ski, and stone climb. I am too an gorging reader, piano histrion, and world traveler. As a member of the AZ Youth Arts Council, I will committee multiple new pupil-oriented projects, highlighting Navajo and Hopi civilisation, social justice, and many of the environmental issues Arizona is struggling from in the confront of climate change. While I do desire to support art that will make a statement in our community, I likewise just want to assistance young artists find places in which they can share and celebrate their creativity.

2020-21 AZ Youth Arts Council Members

Zia Anderson
 Bisbee, AZ

Hullo! I'm 16 and currently a Inferior in High Schoolhouse. I love fine art and getting amend at my creative talents is a constant goal. Right at present, I'one thousand trying to capture more perspective and move in my drawings. I'm the secretary of Knowledgebowl at my school and I also play soccer. I take a piddling sister and both parents who I switch back and forth betwixt every half calendar week. My sis is an artist besides, I've been trying to get her to draw with me for quite some time. My favorite color is green and I love Pirates of the Caribbean area. Thank you lot!

Malcom Barrios
Tucson, AZ

My name is Malcolm Barrios, and I am a sophomore at Academy High School in Tucson. I am sixteen years old and have lived in Arizona my whole life. My interest in the arts started at age four when I began studying the violin at Laura Tagawa's Violin Studio. Performing is i of the best parts well-nigh playing violin, equally I have enjoyed performed several times in Tucson and also bask performing with my school's top orchestra. Every bit a child, I competed in several Arizona "old time" fiddle contests and even placed sixth in the country in 2016. I have played at hospitals and retirement homes as well. Basketball is my favorite hobby. I was on my school'southward junior varsity team last year and accept played with various gild teams. Volunteering is another important activity to me. I volunteered at the YMCA earlier the pandemic and notwithstanding volunteer at the Pima County Public Library. I look frontwards to being able to further impact communities equally a member of this arts council.

Zoë Benavidez
Tucson, AZ

I am a sophomore at Tucson High Magnet School this year in Tucson, AZ. I love connecting with my community through artistic opportunities and lean into challenges, whether it exist solo or with a squad. I love to find new means to admission art in our daily lives, like taking photos, short video clips, dances, or writing, peculiarly in quarantine. You can typically observe me with my head down in my laptop crafting a script idea or filming fun things with my friends. I have been extremely fortunate to grow upward in artist-friendly environments, which has allowed my passion for the arts to flourish. After loftier school, I plan to pursue a career in the amusement industry. I am incredibly grateful for the opportunity to be on the Arizona Youth Arts Council along with students who share the same passion and bulldoze to improve our communities throughout Arizona with the contribution of artistic programs.

Chesed Chap
Patagonia, AZ

Hi, I'm Chesed Chap! I'yard 17 years old and have lived in Arizona all my life. I live in Patagonia, a rural town well-nigh twenty minutes due north of the U.S.-Mexico border. I dearest all the arts, particularly performance-based art. I'm a true thespian- if I'k not acting or directing local shows, I'k writing my next play! I love music and play the steel drums and guitar. I'thou a big fan of the outdoors likewise; I play on my schoolhouse's soccer and tennis teams. I am very fortunate to have grown up in a minor boondocks heavily influenced by the arts, which has fabricated me passionate well-nigh ensuring everyone has access to arts programs! I'm very excited to exist working with yous all to keep the arts thriving in the country I am lucky to call home!

Brianna Fornoff
Wickenburg, AZ

Hello in that location :) I am Brianna Fornoff and I am 15 years one-time, I go to Wickenburg High Schoolhouse currently and I have lived in Wickenburg forever. I am involved in FBLA (Futurity Business concern Leaders of America), Theater Ninjas(which is working every bit the tech coiffure, backside the scenes), and Pride Club. I take been involved in choir and theater since I could remember and I have enjoyed every infinitesimal of information technology. I love getting involved in local activities and meeting new people so I retrieve this is the perfect opportunity. Thank you lot!

Marilyn Garcia
Yuma, AZ

My proper name is Marilyn Garcia and I am currently a Senior at Kofa High School in Yuma AZ. Art has always been a large part of my life every bit I've always enjoyed the freedom of creativity and self-expression. Through art, I've been able to explore different ideas and concepts that intrigue me and used my art to bring awareness to problems that affect my community. My work has been shown in local galleries equally well as the Arizona Legislature Capitol, and won competitions similar the Binational Make clean Air Calendar, and the Congressional Fine art Competition. Currently, I am a Pupil Representative for the Latinx Informational Quango for the Section of Education in Arizona where I also have the opportunity to represent my community. I am excited to exist part of the AZ Youth Arts Quango and be able to learn and collaborate along with my peers in lodge to provide a wide range of opportunities for young man immature artists across all communities in Arizona.

Jesus Guzman
Rio Rico, AZ

Hullo, my name is Jesus Guzman. I love the ring Queen, The Beatles, and more than. I enjoy more of that older music. I feel like I am between a Beginner and Intermediate guitar actor, maybe simply beginner. I can as well play a little bit of piano. I enjoy playing soccer, basketball, lawn tennis, football, video games, and playing grab with a baseball. My favorite color is any shade of blue. I Dear MUSIC! I savour it so much! I am a very curious person. I love craven wings. I prefer Apple over Android. I'm Hispanic.

Samantha Irish
Globe, AZ

I take always lived in Arizona, and I have always had a passion for art and sports- specifically pond and track & field. I'm hoping this year to endeavour soccer since I've never played that before (and my best friend has always wanted me to play with her), and I'm actually excited for it. I Beloved movies/tv/musicals/alive theatre, equally well as drawing on my iPad. I'thousand even so unsure as to what field I want to go into (possibly interior design/architecture), merely I will be attending Arizona Country Academy adjacent school yr!

Tiana Lee
San Tan Valley, AZ

I write music I love how music helps us express ourselves and information technology'due south the language that nosotros tin all speak and relate to. I was adopted at the age of five. I have 3 siblings which I'm pretty close to. I dear animals and my family unit. School is very important to me because I really expect forward to my future and what I tin can do and share with others. The arts accept been a very big part in my life and I know in lost of others. I wont to be a singer/song author considering I would love to help others give them something to relate to and to look upwards to.

Sedona Ortega
Prescott, AZ

Hi! I'm Sedona Ortega. I am a junior at Tri-Metropolis Prep High School in Prescott, Arizona. I am passionate virtually being involved in my community. I am an active volunteer for local organizations that tackle problems affecting the environment, education, racial justice, the arts and teens. The arts have e'er been a very important office of my life. I've been a part of community theatre, worked with film and photography, played piano, drums, and ukulele, and danced since I could stand. I was very grateful to have had the opportunity to serve in the 2019 AZ Youth Arts Council. I am an optimistic, dedicated artist, and I look forwards to supporting the arts in Arizona and continuing to serve on the Youth Arts Council.

Zoya Page
Flagstaff, AZ

Howdy! My proper noun is Zoya and I am currently a freshman at Northern Arizona University. I am beginning a Bachelors of Science in Ecology Science and Sustainability. I grew upward in Phoenix so the valley has a very special place in my heart. I am equally left as right brained, equally a woman in STEM I am besides a practicing visual artist. My go to preferred medium is acrylic paint as well as prismacolor colored pencil portraits and black ink. Existence a woman in scientific discipline and a practicing artist is a beautiful balance I feel. I honey analyzing data and solving math issues for my pleasance or school and after spending an equal corporeality of time painting. When I paint my brain completely tunes out and my hand does its ain thing I feel no command over the process. I served on the quango last yr for Maricopa County and this yr I look forrad for representing Coconino as this is my new dwelling!

Lily Rochin
Glendale, AZ

I am a sixteen year old multimedia creative person attending Metropolitan Arts Institute, striving my hardest to be able to achieve my ambitions in life. All my life I've been an artist, constantly experimenting with many different forms of creative outlets such every bit painting, drawing, writing, playing the clarinet, dancing and costume designing. Being able to feel the creation of art feels like a huge privilege to me that I think everyone should go the opportunity to exercise. I want to piece of work towards a better globe where the freedom of expression and creativity is treated with kindness and love. I hope that as an creative person with such big plans that sometimes seem impossible, that I tin detect a way to help my fellow artists find their way besides. Please look forward to my work as I will endeavour my hardest as a member of the quango!

Bella Swope
Phoenix, AZ

I am a currently a seventeen-year-erstwhile high schooler at Arizona Solarium for Arts and Academics where I study ballet. I have been involved in the performing arts since the age of eight. I started out doing theater and have quickly discovered my passion for dance and choreography. My electric current goal is to pursue a career in teaching dance and choreographing around the valley. I am excited for this opportunity and cannot expect to see what the hereafter holds with this organization.

Ella Wang
Chandler, AZ

I am a sixteen-twelvemonth-onetime junior from Chandler, AZ passionate well-nigh expressing ideas and generating change through fine art. I started my creative journey 10 years agone and now specialize in acrylic painting, only I love to explore other mediums including colored pencil, charcoal, and oil pastel. My works have been recognized at the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards and Congressional Art Awards. Equally someone privileged plenty to have grown up with the back up of art teachers and classes both in and out of schoolhouse, I'grand defended to sharing these invaluable, enriching experiences with others. I facilitate the Teen/Family Art Hour at Cancer Support Customs Arizona and started an art business which provides free classes to kids in Arizona. I'chiliad always looking for means to strengthen my community and meliorate the lives of its people, and I believe that access and exposure to the arts is crucial to achieving this goal. I hope to engage the next generation of youth in artistic expression and tap into the revolutionary potential of the arts to bring greater acceptance, healing, awareness, and change to Arizona.

Margot Wilder
Flagstaff, AZ

Hi, my name is Margot! I am 15 years old and I am currently a sophomore at Northland Preparatory University in Flagstaff, AZ. I have been dancing ballet since I was three years old and I am a student at the Royal Academy of Dance. I regularly perform in community-broad events, like the Flagstaff Festival of Scientific discipline and the Flagtsaff Symphony Orchestra's production of The Nutcracker. I am enrolled in both French and Spanish college courses and involved in my schoolhouse'south Model UN Club. I am very passionate about our country's politics and I am interested in pursuing a career in law or international relations in the futurity. Outside of school and ballet, I beloved to haversack with my family, ski, and rock climb. I am too an avid reader, piano player, and world traveler. As a member of the AZ Youth Arts Council, I will commission multiple new student-oriented projects, highlighting Navajo and Hopi culture, social justice, and many of the environmental issues Arizona is struggling from in the face of climatic change. While I practice want to support art that will brand a statement in our community, I also merely desire to assist young artists find places in which they can share and celebrate their creativity.

Jesús Galaviz Arreguín
AZ YAC Youth Coordinator
Flagstaff, AZ

I am an education educatee with an emphasis in choral music. I am originally from Los Mochis, Sinaloa, and consider inner-city Phoenix, Arizona my second home. I am always thinking nigh how systemic oppression is nowadays and how we tin utilise fine art to dismantle it. Existence an arts advocate means, amidst many things, analyzing where art is present and who has access to information technology. As a RE:FRAME Youth Arts Heart board member, I promise to encourage immature people of diverse backgrounds to engage in collaborative art-making and activism, then that we can be more aware of our history, use art as a method of healing, and express dear to ourselves and others.

2019-20 AZ Youth Arts Council Members

Zoya Page
 Maricopa Canton
She/Her

I believe that my greatest strength is always my countless curiosity. A four twelvemonth old always asks "Why?" to everything around them, and I nonetheless every bit a young adult female share this beautiful curiosity. I am ever willing to know the answer to everything, no matter what kind of answer I become. If I do not believe or fully empathize the response I am given, I will go out of my way and stop at naught to empathize why something is the fashion it is. I am not only curious merely I cannot stand to scout something I do not believe is correct happen in forepart of me. This combination I take means that every day I learn and I am constantly faced with moral dilemmas when uncomfortable truths are revealed. Because of this I am very proactive: if I larn almost a problem, I will immediately modify my ways and endeavor my hardest to help people not make the aforementioned mistakes considering I simply ever want skilful for anybody no thing what, I value the truth more than anything. It is true that ignorance is bliss and sometimes I have felt tempted to just shut my eyes and not pay attending to a state of affairs because it is hard. But, I cannot let that happen although it is like shooting fish in a barrel. Because of these qualities I would love to pursue school the longest I can then that I tin e'er ask people "Why?" and get some answers. I feel as though my eye belongs to the protection of our Earth's lands because I tin can not stand up by as lands are stripped of the rights that they should possess. I will be attention NAU in the autumn, majoring in environmental scientific discipline and sustainability!

Ruchi Ukhade
 Maricopa County
 She/Her

Hi! My name is Ruchi Ukhade. I am currently a Senior at Sandra Day O'Connor High Schoolhouse in Phoenix, AZ. I like to experiment and larn new and innovative ways to limited my art and ideas. I similar using multiple materials for my art. Since my early days, I have tried my easily at jewelry making and creating craft and functioning products from recycled cloth. I have also used watercolor, pen, charcoal, chalk pastel, acrylic color, etc. to create drawings, paintings and murals, but I bask watercolor and ink the virtually. Currently, I am serving as President of Teen Artist Guild, a program sponsored by the Phoenix Centre for the Arts to provide a forum for teens to explore visual art opportunities. I also received the "Phoenix Mayor'southward Arts Award" in the "Young Artist" category in October 2019.

Caroline Wu
 Pinal County
 She/Her

Caroline Wu has been musically involved her whole life, beginning on the pianoforte when she was 4 years sometime and the oboe at the historic period of 10. The 17-yr-old has participated at earth-renowned international camps and festivals, including Interlochen Arts Army camp, Hidden Valley Music Seminars, Idyllwild Arts Camp, and Domaine Forget. She has been principal oboe of the Youth Symphony of the Southwest, Arizona Music Educators Association All-Land Band, 2018 National Association for Music Educational activity'due south All-National Honour Symphony Orchestra, and 2019 MusicforAll Accolade Orchestra of America. Among numerous awards and recognitions, Caroline is also currently chief oboe of Phoenix Youth Symphony.Caroline now studies oboe with ASU professor Martin Schuring and pianoforte with Walter Cosand. In addition to extracurriculars, she is a member of her school'southward Future Business organisation Leaders of America and Clean-Up Committee, president of their National Accolade Gild, and pulsate major of her school marching band.

Sedona Ortega
 Yavapai County
 She/Her

My proper name is Sedona Ortega. I am a 15 year old pupil at Tri-Metropolis College Prep High School in Prescott. I am part of the student council at my schoolhouse and I dear getting involved in issues that bear upon my entire community. I am an agile volunteer for local organizations that tackle problems affecting the environment, education, the arts and teens. Additionally, the performing arts have always been a very important function of my life. I've been a part of many community theatre productions, worked with film and photography, played pianoforte for x years, and danced since I could stand up. I have recently started playing the drums and ukulele as well. From 2016-2018 I was a member of AEvium dance company and performed in both Portland, Oregon as well every bit my home base of operations in Prescott. I was the youngest person to take part in a Fellowship Arts Residency at The Playa, in Summerlake, Oregon. Almost recently, I performed in a site-specific, farm-to-table operation chosen rhizeHOME. I am an optimistic, dedicated creative person, and I expect frontward to Supporting the arts in Arizona by serving on the youth advisory quango.

Jessica Rubio
Cochise County
She/Her

My name is Jessica A. Rubio, 16 years sometime currently a junior in Douglas High School, living with my mom and three siblings. I am a dancer and accept participated in numerous shows, competitions and events. I work with youths and young adults, helping them with their techniques and squad work. I love getting to come across new people always, I feel great when I take the take chances to help people and the community every bit well. I am a very active daughter and very involved in the customs, overall, always looking to have fun and brand new memories!

Jesús Galaviz Arreguín
Maricopa Canton
He/Him

I am an education student with an emphasis in choral music. I am originally from Los Mochis, Sinaloa, and consider inner-city Phoenix, Arizona my 2nd home. I am e'er thinking most how systemic oppression is present and how we tin can use art to dismantle it. Existence an arts advocate means, amidst many things, analyzing where art is present and who has access to it. Every bit a RE:FRAME Youth Arts Center board fellow member, I hope to encourage young people of diverse backgrounds to appoint in collaborative art-making and activism, then that nosotros tin be more than aware of our history, apply art as a method of healing, and express dear to ourselves and others.

Clara Kinlinchee
Apache County
She/Her

I am a strong and optimistic person. I've always had a realistic outlook on the world. My friends say I'k smart, Deeply caring, and Inspiring. I'll ever strive for my goals and what I desire in life, extremely talkative and very friendly. I'g very open minded and Charismatic. I savor beingness creative and making art that depicts my life. My favorite things would have to be food, cartoon, listening to music, and watching anime. I'm proud to exist part of the Navajo Nation and to be 100% Native American.

Stephanie Garcia
Pima Canton
She/Her

I'yard currently a junior in high school. I'1000 involved with ring and technical theater and currently hold an internship at a youth heart helping middle schoolers develop schools in theater and the tech that comes with it. I used to dance folklorico for v years and it was something I was and am passionate about. I similar to consider myself a hard working, dedicated, and goal oriented person. If I accept an thought, I like to become through it as far as I tin can. When I fail, I always effort to become dorsum on the horse and continue trying until I can accomplish it. My family is very supportive in what I practise and always encourages me to practise better every solar day. I dearest the process of planning things. Connecting the dots that lead to something big at the end. I'one thousand also very social and then working with others works great for me.

Amber Wisely
Mohave County
She/Her

I have lived in Kingman all my life, I started performing in forepart of live audiences in the 9th form and ever since then I haven't stopped, I'm currently in 11th grade. I've been in 7 productions and have done state competitions besides. I practice theatre at my school and in my community. I dear performing and learning about theatre and can't wait to learn even more every bit I continue. I dear to sing, dance, and act. I e'er accept something I'one thousand doing that involves the arts and love to be a part of as many things as possible.