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Homeboy Art Academy Presents
We Are... July 22 - September 13, 2025 Opening Reception: Saturday, July 22, 5-8pm Homeboy Art Academy challenges systems of oppression by centering life experiences and cultural knowledge of impacted communities to inspire transformation and reclaim self-agency. A division of Homeboy Industries (HBI), Homeboy Art Academy (HAA) strives to extend the mission of providing hope, training, and support to formerly gang-involved and previously incarcerated youth and adults, by securing a space in which the Arts can be the central modality to healing and transformation. Homeboy Art Academy challenges systems of oppression by centering life experiences and cultural knowledge of impacted communities to inspire transformation and reclaim self-agency. |
Homeboy Art Academy is a trauma-informed arts center that provides culturally competent and asset-based arts education and community convenings, serving 75,000 system-impacted youth and adults each year in the Los Angeles area. Our partnerships include juvenile detention centers, school systems, LAPD, and community-based organizations. Our program is broken up into the following categories:
Prevention: In partnership with city-wide efforts to prevent youth from joining gangs, school systems, and Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) who may be working with disengaged youth, We continue to work with Parks and Recreation to help keep 15-18 engage through the Arts. In this we also provide services through our partnerships with LAUSD. HAA aims to train service providers in trauma-informed care and introduce art tools to better engage, understand, and support their efforts. Additionally, HAA is open as an after-school drop in center for youth who do not want to go home or need a place to call home.
Diversion: An alternative to incarceration, HAA provides mentorship, art and healing workshops to youth who would traditionally be sentenced to juvenile halls or probation and may already be part of the foster care system.
Intervention: The majority of HAA programming is aimed to serve those already past “at-risk” and living in pure crisis. Intervention efforts include:
Pre-release: Build and foster relationships inside juvenile detention camps, and juvenile halls by providing weekly workshops.
Post-release: As an extension of Homeboy Industries, HAA is structured to engage, receive, and support the intentional work needed for those who come from the cycle of incarceration and gang-membership, providing them with cultural arts, cultural knowledge, and spaces to explore and transform their pain and identity. HAA opens its doors to provide intensive mentorship, arts educations, field experiences to program participants from 9am to noon, five times a week. Intervention efforts also include introduction to leadership development and civic engagement.
Prevention: In partnership with city-wide efforts to prevent youth from joining gangs, school systems, and Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) who may be working with disengaged youth, We continue to work with Parks and Recreation to help keep 15-18 engage through the Arts. In this we also provide services through our partnerships with LAUSD. HAA aims to train service providers in trauma-informed care and introduce art tools to better engage, understand, and support their efforts. Additionally, HAA is open as an after-school drop in center for youth who do not want to go home or need a place to call home.
Diversion: An alternative to incarceration, HAA provides mentorship, art and healing workshops to youth who would traditionally be sentenced to juvenile halls or probation and may already be part of the foster care system.
Intervention: The majority of HAA programming is aimed to serve those already past “at-risk” and living in pure crisis. Intervention efforts include:
Pre-release: Build and foster relationships inside juvenile detention camps, and juvenile halls by providing weekly workshops.
Post-release: As an extension of Homeboy Industries, HAA is structured to engage, receive, and support the intentional work needed for those who come from the cycle of incarceration and gang-membership, providing them with cultural arts, cultural knowledge, and spaces to explore and transform their pain and identity. HAA opens its doors to provide intensive mentorship, arts educations, field experiences to program participants from 9am to noon, five times a week. Intervention efforts also include introduction to leadership development and civic engagement.
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(714) 374-1650 | [email protected]
538 Main Street | Huntington Beach, CA 92648 The Huntington Beach Art Center's Gallery Hours: Tuesday | 12-8pm Wednesday - Thursday | 12-6pm Friday - Saturday | 12-5pm Please call (714) 374-1650 for more information. |
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