iBall 2024 was held on Thursday, March 14 from 6-9 p.m. as an evening of celebration, community building, and connection inviting our greater WMCAT community to be a voice of encouragement to our students by saying “You Got This!” with their support of tuition-free pathways to opportunity.

The WMCAT Award for Inspiration was presented to Cierra, Mariah, and Marcos Barrera in honor of the late Jim Welch, WMCAT’s founding board chair. Alumni of WMCAT’s Teen Arts + Tech Program, the Barrera siblings each embody a creative spirit and desire to impact their communities. Cierra, Mariah, and Marcos are leveraging music, filmmaking, and photography to elevate their voices, share the stories of those around them, and invite new perspectives through their inspirational work.

ABOUT WMCAT
The West Michigan Center for Arts + Technology (WMCAT) is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide a culture of opportunity for people to make social and economic progress in their lives and community. WMCAT fulfills this mission through visual arts and digital media engagement with young people, workforce development with adults, and social enterprise Public Agency at WMCAT.

Learn more at wmcat.org.