Youth Assembly Workshops are hands-on sessions led by teens and BICA School Teaching Artists. Each workshop takes on a new project in a different medium or approach, so participants build skills they can bring back to their own work. No experience needed.
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Make your own journal/sketchbook
Learn how to long stitch and make your own sketchbook with Koala! If you already have one, bring one of your own sketchbooks/notebooks for a sketchbook show and tell, too. What do you create in? Why? What's your process? Can we see?
BICA School Teaching Artist: Koala
Koala is a Buffalo based multi-media artist, focused on oil painting, illustration, and book binding.
About Youth Assembly:
BICA School Youth Assembly is a free program for artists ages 14–18 working across visual art, writing, and civic engagement. Join us for a monthly workshop and open studio hours — bring your own project or start something new. The year builds toward a group exhibition and zine at BICA.
BICA School Youth Assembly is led with support from teaching artist Robin Lee Jordan. The 2026-2027 season is funded by WNY With Youth For Youth (WYFY), a grant designed, reviewed, and selected by youth. WYFY is supported by the Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo and funded by the Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Foundation.