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Main IDEA Youth & Arts @mainideama

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

Joined June 2012
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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
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Painting color wheels at our Virtual Art Club with Matheson/Wellington yesterday! 🎨
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Massachusetts Art Education Association@MassArtEd
9 Dec 2021
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 buff.ly/3oFudqS
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Main IDEA 2021 Winter Newsletter - Help Make the Holidays special for Worcester Youth with an Art or Cookie Kit! mailchi.mp/bd81440c742c/2021…
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💚
Join us for FREE children’s and teen arts activities at the @Worcester_PL during the #DiadelosMuertos block party in @TweetWorcester on Oct 30th!
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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: woo.dayofthedead@gmail.com
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Redemption Rock Brewing@RR_BrewingCo
14 Sep 2021
🎉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.
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Final Reveal of our community mural with the @MainSouthCDC! 🎉
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Final Reveal tonight for our community mural with the @MainSouthCDC! 🎉 #mainsouthworcester
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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! 💛
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
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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
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UniBank@UniBankMA
18 Jun 2021
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. unibank.com
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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 💙
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Worcester Magazine@worcestermag
15 Jun 2021
Sarah Connell Sanders: Young muralists unveil the first of works destined for Main South worcestermag.com/story/lifes… via @worcestermag

Sarah Connell Sanders: Young muralists unveil the first of works destined for Main South

Sarah Connell Sanders: Young muralists unveil the first of many works destined for Main South this summer

worcestermag.com
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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: eventbrite.com/e/carnival-ma…
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BGCWorcester@BGCWorcester1
11 Jun 2021
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 youtu.be/7XmcbEYnw24
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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 mainidea.org/donate 💚
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Main IDEA Youth & Arts retweeted
Spectrum News 1 Worcester@SpecNews1Worc
9 Jun 2021
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: spectrumnews1.com/ma/worcest… @AnaBottary @InThe016

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The mural is 100 feet long and was painted on the side of the Boys & Girls Club building in Worcester’s Main South neighborhood.

spectrumnews1.com
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