Youth Academy of Design and Culinary Arts

What’s on the menu??

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Come join the fun this Fall as we continue to cook up a rainbow of deliciousness in our new culinary space near Henderson!

➡️Why YADCA for cooking classes you ask?? 🤔
✨Our unique approach to cooking eliminates all the junk that has become so mainstream in society and focuses on real, whole, un/minimally processed ingredients, and we are 100% plant-based to boot!!🌱

You won’t find another program quite like ours as we cook and bake our way through classic favorites, cuisines of the world and some new ideas that might just be a little outside the box😋

We’ll see you in the kitchen!!🥳

Our fashion class for teens ages 12-18 teaches a foundational level of garment construction, including taking measurements, reading patterns, seam finishes, various waistbands + pocket styles, cuffs, collars, gathers, pleats, buttons and more.

Students will also have the incredible opportunity to design + create an outfit to present in our local Las Vegas Fashion Council Little Black Dress competition+ fashion show!!

This class has been modeled after collegiate level courses and provides a solid skill set for our community’s youth. For full details, check out the link in our bio!

We are moving into new commercial spaces!!

New culinary address:

6235 S. Pecos Rd Unit 105
Las Vegas, NV 89120
(Inside of Slice Shared Commissary)

New sewing/fashion address:

2550 S. Rainbow Blvd E27
Las Vegas, NV 89146
(Inside of Bloom Academy)

This change is very bittersweet—it is long overdue to be getting back to a commercial setting, so we are super excited about that, and at the same time, we know our move (especially for culinary) is going to be a challenge for many of our families to be able to continue. We absolutely hate to lose our awesome students and will miss those who will no longer be able to participate!!!!😭😭😭
We also know there have been some families in Henderson awaiting our return so we will look forward to welcoming you back and meeting new families that previously couldn’t make the Summerlin side of town work.

We hope to continue to serve as many families in our community as possible and look forward to getting back to all the fun SOON!!!!!

Come join the fun!!!

Learn the basics of the sewing machine, including introductory stitch practice and making a project to take home in these introductory classes for kids ages 8-18. All materials provided.

Next class:
Saturday, August 27, 2022
10:00am - 1:00pm

Full details at the link in bio!

This class serves as a prerequisite for our other sewing/fashion programs or as a stand alone class for those just wanting to learn the basics a longer commitment.

Our last culinary workshop of the season: Banana Berry Trifle!

This fun layered dessert combined our pastry week with a world cuisine week and it was so fun to see the variety of creations!

A base layer of strawberry-banana-orange cake followed by vanilla pastry cream, berry coulis, fresh fruit and coconut whipped cream in all different colors + flavors (done naturally and deliciously with freeze dried fruits), garnished with toasted almonds and coconut. What a fun, beautiful and tasty summer presentation!!

The first of our delicious summer culinary workshops featured black bean tacos with mango salsa + homemade tortillas. Super fresh + super delicious 😋

It’s always a good time for tacos!!
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Summer wrap-up:
Our last sewing workshop of the summer was making circle skirts! Here’s a quick peek behind the scenes. Great job kiddos!!!

We have more summer recaps to post, but first…a big announcement!!

📢Our Fall schedule is finally posted and open for registration!!!📢

➡️Click the link in our bio to view all our offerings…they start SOON!!!

We have classes in sewing, fashion and culinary and will be adding more throughout the year.

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We have 🌟NEW LOCATIONS!!!!!🌟

We are back in a commercial kitchen space near Henderson and a new subleased studio space for sewing/design.

All details can be found at the link in bio.

We can’t wait to see y’all again soon!!

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Our first summer workshop is in the books!! This stuffed animal workshop was a ton of fun. Swipe through for the progress and evolution of these cute critters🧸🐱🐶

Our fashion teens completed their cargo pants and finished out the year learning various collars, cuffs, gathers, button holes, pleats and more for their final project of a button down shirt dress. We packed a ton of skills into this year of fashion with our teens and they now have a toolbox of so many skills that they can implement in future projects. Over the course of the year they learned the following and more:
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Rulers + measurements for sewing
How to take measurements
How to read commercial patterns
Introduction to textiles
Pattern + fabric cutting + marking
Straight stitching
Curves
Pivots
Clean finish hem
Single + double fold bias hems
Zig zag, pinked + serged seams
French seam
Elastic + drawstring waistbamds
Patch pocket
Various pocket styles
Pleats
Cuffs
Collars
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We have loved working with our teen students and hope they are as proud of themselves as we are for all of their hard work this year!
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A roundup of some of our last projects in sewing 101…the students finished out the year with pajama pants/shorts, aprons, and handbags. By the end of our full program, these kids learned how to do the following and more:
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Pattern tracing and cutting
Fabric cutting
Straight stitch
Pivots
Curves
Turning
Hand Stitching
Embroidery stitches
Topstitch
Open/Plain/Sandwich seams
French seams
Zig Zag seam finish
Clean finish hem
Tri-fold strap
Patch pockets
Hand sewn buttons
Straight line quilting
Bias binding
Elastic casing
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We are so proud of these kids for the work they put in over this last school year!!
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We went out with a delicious bang with these strawberry shortcakes made with an almond-oat drop biscuit, coconut whipped cream and roasted balsamic strawberries…additional fresh strawberries included as well with a garnish of toasted almonds and coconut. 🤤

Happy summer everyone!!! It was a delicious year packed with real, whole, plant foods and a whole lot of fun cooking and baking with your littles + not-so-littles. Thank you to everyone who came out to join us!!! We’ll see you in the kitchen this summer for our limited workshop series. Cheers!!