Main IDEA Youth & Arts

Main IDEA empowers youth by by providing quality accessible arts programs to under-resourced communities 🎨🎶💃🏾🎭

[Main IDEA Youth & Arts @mainideama]

Proud to share that we’ve been awarded a Worcester Arts Council grant for 2022, for our Community Garden Youth Mural project with the Worcester Islamic Center! 💜 Thank you @WorcARTS & @masscultural for your support! #wacfunded #powerofculture

[Main IDEA Youth & Arts @mainideama]

Painting color wheels at our Virtual Art Club with Matheson/Wellington yesterday! 🎨

[Massachusetts Art Education Association @MassArtEd]

Congrats to Joy Murrieta who is the 2022 Community Art Educator of the Year. Joy is the Co-founder & Executive Director of @mainideama a local nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering youth by providing accessible arts programs. Learn more about Joy https://t.co/lRX1cSSKSw

[Main IDEA Youth & Arts @mainideama]

Main IDEA 2021 Winter Newsletter - Help Make the Holidays special for Worcester Youth with an Art or Cookie Kit! https://t.co/Xju3ZwiwFJ

[Main IDEA Youth & Arts @mainideama]

Thank you @WebsterFiveBank for being a Partner Donor to Main IDEA! Because of your generos donation, youth in Worcester are able to foster their Imagination, build self-Discipline, engage in Exploration, and build a positive Attitude through our accessible arts programs💚

[Main IDEA Youth & Arts @mainideama]

Join us for FREE children’s and teen arts activities at the @Worcester_PL during the #DiadelosMuertos block party in @TweetWorcester on Oct 30th!

[Main IDEA Youth & Arts @mainideama]

Join us downtown Worcester October 29-30, 2021 to celebrate Dia de Los Muertos! 🎉 Stay tuned for more details, including a calendar of events, information about guest artists, supporters, and our Latinx leaders—coming soon! 🖤 Contact the team to more: [email protected]

[Redemption Rock Brewing @RR_BrewingCo]

🎉BIG CHECK TIME!🎉

Yesterday, we visited our friends @mainideama (at their stunning new mural) to present the $3,379 that our customers donated in March!

Thank you to everyone who donated, and to Main IDEA for the awesome work they do providing arts programs for kids.

[Main IDEA Youth & Arts @mainideama]

Final Reveal of our community mural with the @MainSouthCDC! 🎉

[Main IDEA Youth & Arts @mainideama]

Final Reveal tonight for our community mural with the @MainSouthCDC! 🎉 #mainsouthworcester

[Main IDEA Youth & Arts @mainideama]

Today we started our first day of Summer Arts Programming! ☀️ We spent our afternoon painting miniature horse sculptures with acrylic paint 🐴🖌🎨 We’re so excited to spend the next 6 weeks hosting visual art and dance at Castle Park and University Park! 💛

[Main IDEA Youth & Arts @mainideama]

We can’t wait to partner again with #thecookieladysdaughter to decorate more cookies with our kiddos this summer! 🍪 Stay tuned for more exciting details coming soon… ⭐️💙💛❤️⭐️ #cookiedecorating

[Main IDEA Youth & Arts @mainideama]

HUGE thank you again to everyone who participated in our Carnival Mask-Making Workshop this past Saturday with the @jmacworcester, @Creativehubwoo, and Guardians of Traditions 🎉 Special thanks to artist Luis Rivas for leading us in such a creative project 💛
📷 Troy B. Thompson

[UniBank @UniBankMA]

Our Relationship Banker Supervisor / Worcester - Cheryl Nedoroscik (NMLS # 1409886) and Teller, Laura Orellana Mejilla, recently presented a donation of art supplies to Joy Murrieta at Main IDEA. Member FDIC. Member DIF. Equal Housing Lender. https://t.co/QQiBtLvkZZ

[Main IDEA Youth & Arts @mainideama]

Thank you @WooSox for featuring our youth at the game last night for their social justice mural with the @BGCWorcester1 and having us throw the first pitch! ⚾️ Special thank you also to @fallon_health for sponsoring our suite for the evening—the kids were elated 💙

[Worcester Magazine @worcestermag]

Sarah Connell Sanders: Young muralists unveil the first of works destined for Main South https://t.co/pBrzXycDky via @worcestermag

[Main IDEA Youth & Arts @mainideama]

June 26th! Join Main IDEA, Guardians of Tradition, @Creativehubwoo, and the @jmacworcester in-person for this educational, fun, FREE workshop to take on traditional mask-making with household recyclables!*Registration Required: https://t.co/PmxJdwkuth

[BGCWorcester @BGCWorcester1]

Tonight we unveiled the 2021 Kid's for Social Justice Mural. Check out the behind-the-scenes documentary on the process and passion behind it! @mainideama @masscultural @WorcARTS

https://t.co/JFlBQlY8Dm

[Main IDEA Youth & Arts @mainideama]

Help us continue offering free arts programs to youth in Worcester by donating toward our $10K Goal in support of our Annual Appeal! 🎉@UnitedWayofCM has generously offered to match all donations up to $5,000! 😲 Donate by July 5th at https://t.co/ljF6maWyPr 💚

[Spectrum News 1 Worcester @SpecNews1Worc]

Kids ages 11 to 18 from @mainideama and @BGCWorcester1 have created a 100-foot mural inspired by Martin Luther King, Jr. in #Worcester's Main South neighborhood:

https://t.co/uXFDt43dOv @AnaBottary @InThe016