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Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Arts / City / Visual Art What Happened at Youngstown

Posted by on Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 11:32 AM

Youngstown is this building, a historic schoolhouse in the West Seattle neighborhood of Delridge, where a large number of the kids who attend public school are on free lunch programs.
  • Joe Mabel
  • Youngstown is this building, a historic schoolhouse in the West Seattle neighborhood of Delridge, where a large number of the kids who attend public school are on free lunch programs.
In this week's paper, I raise questions about what is going on at Youngstown Cultural Arts Center in Delridge. Since the summer, Youngstown—an arts center that focuses on antiracist youth advocacy in one of the toughest neighborhoods in Seattle—has been in the hands of an outside consultant and an apparently distracted and/over overworked board of trustees.

Repeated pleas to the consultant and the board of trustees have gotten nowhere—I sat on this story for several months, not wanting to make things worse, hoping for some progress. It didn't come. (I also requested a financial document the same consulting company completed a few years ago, reportedly recommending that Youngstown divide from its parent organization, DNDA, but the consultancy did not send the report. Perhaps someone out there has it?)

More than a hundred people have officially asked for a meaningful audience from the consultant and the board for months. Will they get it? What's to come of Youngstown?

 

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