Works of Heart

Youth arts alliance & campaign...

First spawned in 2001 with the publishing of The Magic of Helping Children be Creative, the Works of Heart campaign is a division of Artists Helping Artists (Aha!) that brings arts educators and grassroots visionaries together to help keep the spirit of creativity alive in youth.  

The purposes of the Works of Heart Youth Arts Alliance & Campaign are two-fold: 1) to ignite imagination, creativity and the arts in youth and expand and support arts education in society; and, 2) to build a powerful network of effective arts educators and youth arts visionaries that know that creativity and arts in youth are vital to future civilization.

Youth Arts Leaders Coming Together 

Leaders from a wide range of youth arts organizations have shown support for Aha! and/or attended recent Works of Heart special forums.  Organizations have included the Annex Performers, Artists for Change of Burbank, Arts in Education Aid Council, Boredom Busters, Covina Cultural Arts Advisory Committee, Families Enjoying the Arts Together, Hawthorne Center for Innovation, Inside Out Community Arts, Kids Rock, Millennium Shakespeare for Children, MonArt, N2Arts, N. Hollywood High School Speech Club, One World Education, Paw Prints, Skirball Family Programs, Rhythm Child Network, Ryman Program for Young Artists, The Library Fairy, Yorba Linda Arts Alliance. 

Works of Heart Awards Program

The Works of Heart program also acknowledges and awards deserving youth arts leaders who are effective in reaching children and young artists and promoting the arts in society. Recent awardees announced in The Creative Line magazine were:  Norman Jones of Rhythm Child Network and Tamy Mulchay of Kids Rock as well as master puppeteer Penelope Torribio and children’s performer, Wendee, for their works in keeping the spirit of creativity and imagination alive in youth.  Each of these individuals received the Works of Heart Award as well as the Works of Heart Gift Package of powerful children’s arts and imagination resources.  

Seeking Youth Arts Visionaries

 If you know a deserving youth arts performer or youth arts organization leader that is worthy of the Works of Heart Award please email Jeannie Windsor at TheInfoLine@cs.com with information on why they should receive the award.  Also, Artists Helping Artists (Aha!) is requesting innovative and imaginative youth arts resources, CDs, books, etc. to be included in Works of Heart Gift Packages.  If you wish to donate to these Gift Packages, please contact Jeannie with details.