Worcester Youth Press Project

Our young Zine writers have work that is featured in the new Worcester Quaranzine!! Volume 1 is available in digital format today, and the crew is already working on their contributions to Volume 2!!
Check it out!

Worcester Quaranzine - Vol 1 The Worcester Quaranzine is a collection of poetry, art, design, comics, writings, and creative expressions from people in and around Worcester County, Massachusetts sharing their quarantined lives so as to provide entertainment, relief, inspiration, and resource for future generations.

These ladies are spending part of their Saturday prepping some WYPP presentation materials for the Art Around the World event at the Sprinkler Factory next weekend. Cropping, cutting, glueing, drawing, writing... and then there was the glitter 😁

Mia working on presentation prep in the studio today.

We are four sessions into this round, and both our new AND returning students are busy planning, creating content, and piecing together their Zines!

Monday's got us longing for that WYPP Tuesday night life!
Excited to get back to Zine making tomorrow night!

Our Level 1 WYPP writers had a guest stop by the studio last night to help out with the lesson on conducting an interview! HUGE shout out and thank you to Connor Doherty of the Worcester Railers for spending some time with our young writers! Connor's interview (and the photos and art the students are creating to accompany it) will be available in the zines that our students will self-publish in April.

We're so excited to be gearing up and accepting students for our next run of Zine classes!! WYPP- where critical thinking meets art, written expression, technology, and publishing!

THIS!!! This is one of the main reasons why we do what we do! Mia picked up her finished zine for the first time and said, “I made this. I MADE this!!” Her voice was full of both wonder and pride - with just a touch of giddiness. (We weren’t crying... it was just a little... uh... dusty in there. Yeah. That’s it.)

Check out the future home of the Worcester Youth Press Project!! VERY excited for this move!!

Local Art Program Gets New Home A local art program is getting a new home.

Saturday mornings are made for Zine layouts... well, this one was, anyway! This morning the writers in the WYPP had their class on layout with artist/graphic designer Travis Duda, and they are almost ready for their zine release party on Tuesday night!