Our Arts Education program is focused on Latino youth in grades 6-12.  The programming is highly flexible, and responsive to the changing needs of the students it serves. In addition, the program is interdisciplinary and collaborative in its approach to after school arts education. ASAP provides the opportunity for improved student learning and engagement by including a myriad of performing and visual arts educational experiences, as well as promoting a strong linkage between the arts and more traditional academic areas. This synthesis both within the arts curriculum and across the arts, sciences, and humanities areas, helps define and structure ASAP's distinctive, high quality programs.

ASAP also provides linkages to rich cultural opportunities within the community. Students' horizons and understandings of the world are expanded via their access to the Colleges of Fine and Applied Arts, Education, Engineering, and Liberal Arts and Sciences, as well as to University campus-based resources. ASAP also reaches out to community-based art initiatives, and encourages trips to theaters, exhibits and events outside the students' immediate neighborhood.

The ASAP team, in collaboration with school staff, endeavors to admit students that represent the inherent diversity of the student body with consideration made to each student's race, gender, physical ability, socioeconomic status, and language.