Founded in 1999, Living Arts is a non-profit organization that engages Detroit youth, teachers and families in transformative experiences in the performing, visual, literary and media arts. Implementing arts education programs for over 3,200 early learners, elementary and secondary students annually, we increase youth’s academic achievement, develop their leadership and artistic skills, and strengthen our schools and communities. Living Arts’ Detroit Wolf Trap program is an affiliate of the national Wolf Trap Institute for Early Learning Through the Arts. Our Out-of-School Arts program brings year-round youth arts classes and community programs to the Ford Resource and Engagement Center at the Mexicantown Mercado.