Challenges

YWP’s hub of inspiration: All our challenges are here!

Weekly

  • Visual Art

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    Rainbow

    Use any medium to depict your own version of a rainbow over a bucolic landscape. Don’t be afraid to mismatch the style of the terrain and the style of the rainbow to allow the latter to pop!

  • Writing

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    Studio

    Your parents have given you carte blanche to set up a studio space in your attic – a place just for your hobbies and creative endeavors. How do you decorate it, and what do you engage in when you're in the space?

  • Writing

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    SM

    Write a short op-ed or personal essay about social media and its impact on young people’s lives. 

Opinion & Commentary

  • Writing

    Leadership on the Left

    Resistance to 'crisis:' Sen. Cory Booker spoke out against the Trump administration at a marathon speech of more than 25 hours on the Senate floor. This follows the "Fight Oligarchy" tour of Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

  • Writing

    Resistance

    Resistance is bubbling up in the first weeks of the Trump administration. What are you seeing and thinking?

Great Artists

  • Visual Art

    Tomokazu Matsuyama

    Tomokazu Matsuyama combines Eastern and Western art history, pop culture, graffiti, and more to create his magical, mystical paintings and sculptures.

  • Visual Art

    Bunny Harvey

    Walks in rural Vermont helped inspire these dreamy abstract landscape paintings. 

     

  • Visual Art

    Ted Walsh

    Recipe for a striking painting? Limited color palette, a spare style, and the gorgeous play of light and shadow.

Great Writers

  • Writing

    Pablo Neruda

    This Chilean poet, diplomat, senator began publishing under a pen name because his father discouraged him from writing poetry. Neruda went on to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.

  • Writing

    Toni Morrison

    In Black History Month, we honor Toni Morrison, the first Black woman to be awarded the Nobel laureate in literature, gained worldwide acclaim for her unvarnished exploration of Black identity in America. Have you read her work? 

Online Workshops

Contests

  • Visual Art

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    Climate and Our Earth - Visual Art

    Create art that explores the many impacts of the climate crisis and celebrates the wonders and beauty of Earth. Find inspiration in YWP Alumni Advisor Sam Aikman's series of visual art prompts. 

  • Writing

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    Climate and Our Earth - Writing

    The Earth is in crisis. Dig deep, YWP, and write about it with YWP Alumni Advisor Sam Aikman. Find "both the heavy and the hopeful, the worried and the appreciative, the challenged and the uplifted ... to create!"