Programs
Stand Up For The Arts
Art for the sake of empowerment. Stand Up For The Arts (SUFTA) is the mobilization of IDEA's belief that arts education can create real change - that it can enhance young people's attitudes about themselves, and provide them with the skills to change their futures and their communities...[Learn more]
City Kids Multimedia Arts Production Company
In the summer of 1998, Camden students helped design and manage the area's only urban youth video arts production company. Today City Kids is a laboratory, where groups of teens are trained by a mentor to produce documentaries - film clips on contemporary subjects of interest to youth...[Learn more]
Youth Institute For Jazz And Music Studies
Slated to be incorporated into the Chicken Bone Beach Historical Foundation's Museum Education programming in Atlantic City...[Learn more]
Byrd Is The Word
This project debuted at Camden High School in the summer of 2004, exposing students to Byrd's "Music plus Math Equals Art" formula. Byrd, the most sampled musician on the planet by hip-hop artists, is now focused on what he's dubbed WAR - Writing, Arithmetic and Reading...[Learn more]
Music By the Sea Summer Jazz Camp
Recognized by CN8 as on of the region's most innovative summer camps, The Music By the Sea Summer Jazz Camp brings together talented youth to enhance their musical skills and to learn from legendary jazz greats...[Learn more]
Youth Arts Entrepeneurial Development Program
IDEA works to expose students to a variety of art forms and develop skills for those with an interest in pursuing careers in the arts. Many of IDEA's students have an interest in going to college and the organization's partnership with Donald Byrd at the University of Delaware and Dr. John Lamkin at the University of Maryland, Eastern Shore, allows IDEA to recommend music scholarships for students (on behalf of these Universities)...[Learn more]