Welcome to YMA! 
Since 1965, Young Musicians and Artists (YMA) has provided a quality residential summer performing and visual arts program. Students who have completed grades four through twelve receive professional instruction in dance, instrumental music, photography, creative writing, piano, musical theatre, songwriting, composition, theatre, visual arts, and vocal music.
The primary goals of the Young Musicians & Artists program are to provide excellent arts instruction, to expose students to quality artistic work by professional artists, to foster a love and appreciation of creative expression, and to build confidence and self-esteem in young artists.
YMA has grown steadily from a one-week summer camp of fifty string students to the Northwest’s premier visual and performing arts residential summer program. Since 1974, YMA has been housed at Willamette University, which offers excellent facilities and an environment that is perfectly suited to the appreciation of the arts. Today, fifty artist/instructors, twenty guest artists, and forty student-counselors work with approximately 250 youth with a keen interest in the performing and visual arts.
The superb instruction, creative environment, camaraderie among the counselors and students, and lasting friendships bring former students, parents, and friends back year after year to relive that “YMA magic”.
Join us! Take part in YMA as a student, a parent, an audience member or visitor. Attend any of our evening performances. All are open to the public, including our final performances and Session 2 gallery display. You will be impressed and amazed, not only by the work these young artists produce in such a short time, but with the personal growth and joy that the YMA program allows them to experience.
We can’t wait to see you at camp!
Email: Info@ymainc.org
Fax: (888) 793-2583
EIN#93-0910160
