JP Pimentel moved to Homestead Florida in 2006. To help keep him busy, and meet new people, his mother enrolled him in the first ASTEP Art-in-Action Experience for high school students. Since then JP and ASTEP have been inseparable. He

Discover the artwork from BIHS Spring 2011 Visual Art Class. These students are part of IRC’s Refugee Youth Program and took part in this class, once a week for the entire spring semester.

From August 31-September 5th, Mauricio Salgado and Marco Ramirez were granted a residency at the Kennedy Center in order to complete a new work and present it at the Kennedy Center’s Page to Stage Festival (September 3-5). “A Million Billion Thunders” is Nico’s telling

At the end of June, Seth Numrich and I hosted a 2-day event at the Incarnation Children’s Center in order to re-energize and commit students to the summer ASTEP program. This summer marked the third year ASTEP worked with  the

  It was about fifteen minutes before our final performance, and all of the teachers were standing in front of 57 excited, nervous teenagers, trying to give them some last minute words of wisdom and express to them, if we

Created by Alejandro Rodriquez, ASTEP’s On-Site Administrator at the Refugee Youth Summer Academy, this video captures the many moments of joy and empowerment experienced by volunteers and children this summer at RYSA. Enjoy!