The Power of Four: A Journey for Youth.
Fouryouth Productions offers underserved youth from grades K-12 innovative STEAM education that blends art with science, engineering, and cooking. We are a 501(c)3 non-profit organization that provides supplemental educational programs at schools and community organizations as well as free weekend programming at our headquarters. Private lessons in our studio are also available to anyone that is interested.
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With guidance from professional photographers and designers, our students learn to create fascinating photographic artwork inspired by math, science, engineering, and nature. (link). Our students learn valuable entrepreneurship skills by selling their own artwork at local art exhibitions and festivals. All of the profits from these sales go towards our College Scholarship Initiative. (link).
Students who joined their Fouryouth in kindergarten have the opportunity to continue to learn and work with us through 12th grade. We offer employment opportunities to our high school students as teaching assistants to our younger students and event photographers which helps pave the way towards their future careers.
Since 2017, Fouryouth has spearheaded the annual 
In partnership with museums, galleries, and businesses, we produce a variety of exhibitions to showcase and sell our students’ artwork. These exhibits train our young photography students how to communicate their creative decisions to the public and introduce them to becoming entrepreneurs by selling their work. The events are free and open to the public and are all profits of the sales go towards our College Fund Initiative. Our students have participated in more than 25 exhibits and festivals including the Vice-President Biden residency in 2015.
Wilmington, Delaware’s Creative District spearheaded the”West Center city: a Family Portrait” project that we produced with them as partners. This project celebrates the families that live in our neighborhood. Our students captured images of families through a series of conversations and learned about their stories and community. The project celebrates the families we form through friendship and those that we are born into. The final production was multiple murals used to brighten streets with light, encouragement and positivity
The Chichester Foundation has supported this initiative in which we offer free weekend programming at our headquarters to children from the local community. This allows us to reach students who don’t attend schools where we currently teach and provides students the opportunity to continue programming with us past their middle school years. We offer the same STEAM programming that we offer at schools and community centers.