Through Arts For All’s programs, professional artists work with youth organizations to build self-confidence, self-expression, teamwork, resilience, and creativity in children through various art disciplines including: theatre, dance, music, painting, drawing, mask and puppet making, video creation, creative writing and more. These programs are free to in-need youth organizations and average around 1 hour, though can be flexible based on the needs of the youth partner.
Our Programs:
Artistic Residency Program:
Through our Artistic Residency Program, AFA’s professional artists teach music, theater, dance, visual art, poetry and film workshops to under-served children aged 4-19. AFA partners with public schools and community organizations lacking funding for arts programming. We work with the needs of our partnering organizations to provide arts programs for the length of time, age groups and artistic disciplines they request.
Literacy Through the Arts:
Literacy Through the Arts builds students’ reading, writing and verbal expression skills through a multi-arts curriculum in theater, literature, music, visual arts and dance. Through art, K-2 students develop critical and creative thinking and a vocabulary to express ideas, stories and emotions.
Artistic Exposure Program:
Artistic Exposure Program offers special extra-curricular opportunities for our students, such as field trips to local museums.
Audience Project:
The Audience Project brings a free professional theater production to under-served kids in the NYC area. Previous productions include The Emperor’s New Clothes, Pinocchio!, Pig Pen Theatre’s The Mountain Song, and Mélissa Smith’s The Magician’s Assistant and BLAST OFF! Astronaut Training Residency.
If you do not see a program that suits your needs, Arts For All is happy to create an original workshop to better serve the children at your organization. Click here for more information or contact us.
For a schedule of our current programs, click here.