Marking a new era in arts education and coming at a time when schools are cutting arts classes, Young At Art Museum has broken ground on a new 55,000 square-foot, LEED Certified Museum and Broward County Children’s Reading Center that will span 11 acres at State Road 84 and NW 121 Avenue in Davie. The new Museum and Children’s Reading Center will serve 500,000 families annually and become a national model for arts education, shifting the paradigm from learning about art to using art for learning and enabling children to expand their capacity to reason, make connections, imagine and think creatively

. The new Museum will be a living laboratory of adventures through interactive permanent exhibits, culturally rich traveling exhibitions and a wide range of educational classes, workshops, camps and art experiences that inspire and enrich all who participate. Joining Young At Art Executive Director Mindy Shrago and other Museum staff at the groundbreaking were dignitaries, community leaders and donors including Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Dara and Jarett Levan of BankAtlantic Foundation, Craig Zinn of Zinn Automotive Group, Stuart Kennedy from the Knight Foundation, Broward County Commissioner Lois Wexler, Broward County Property Appraiser Lori Parrish, Davie Mayor Judy Paul and Robert E. Cannon, director, Broward County Library. IKEA Sunrise provided the setting at the site. Among those in the Leadership Society who provided funding for Phase I of The Art Answer Capital Campaign to build the new Museum are BankAtlantic Foundation, Broward County Board of County Commissioners, Town of Davie, State of Florida, Federal Government, Francie Bishop Good and David Horvitz, Hudson Family Foundation, Huizenga Family Foundation and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.