Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) will implement "YBCA In Community," a museum-led participatory community engagement program, from its pilot phase into a full program and permanent practice for the organization. The program has developed a framework for accessible arts engagement that convenes underserved community members from specific target populations, partner community organizations, artists, and the museum to collectively meet community needs through experiential art making in spaces outside the museum. To fully launch the program, YBCA will organize six "In Community" projects, engaging people living in San Francisco's South of Market and Tenderloin, as well as West Oakland. The program enables participants to address an issue of community importance through their collective community art making, helping reinforce cultural connectivity and community healing. Upon completion, YBCA will have strengthened its "In Community" program model to share with the field for adaptation by other museums.