Our Mission
To provide a transformative experience, through the performing arts, for youth of the African diaspora
Our Vision
To cultivate socially-responsible change agents healing and transforming people of the Pan-African community, seven generations forward and backward.
TYA is honored to be a recipient of the 2025 MidAtlantic Arts Cultural Sustainability Community Roots Grant!
We’re thrilled to use this support to deepen our impact and expand access to the arts throughout Maryland communities.
Cultural Sustainability: Community Roots, a pilot program offered by the six U.S. Regional Arts Organizations (USRAOs) in partnership with The Wallace Foundation. The program provides general operating support to arts organizations rooted in communities of color.
“It’s an overall appreciation of our culture and where we came from. It’s a deeper knowledge because it’s experiential”
— TYA Parent
