NM Bodecker Creative Foundation

Youth Workshops: The Bodecker Foundation partners with professional artists, musicians, designers, and educators to lead FREE, multidisciplinary workshops that empower Creative youthespecially those from underrecognized communities. Our workshps and prgrams are designed to spark young people to realize their Creative power through immersive learning experiences. In 2024, the Bodecker Foundation hosted 43 workshops and events both in-person and online, engaging 611 high school students at our headquarters at 2360 NW Quimby Street. Additionally, we continued in-classroom workshops at Grant High School, McDaniel High School, Roosevelt Highschool, Alliance at Kenton High School, and Rosemary Anderson High School. Our 2024 workshop disciplines included songwriting, recording and demoing, beat making, audio engineering, nontraditional portraiture drawing, writing, cartoon making, sculpture, filmmaking, watercolor painting, portfolio review, visual art, product design, studio art, graphic des