Project Create is seeking new Board members!
We are a D.C. nonprofit that promotes positive youth development in the lives of children, youth and families experiencing homelessness and poverty in our communities. Join us as we continue our 18 year tradition to:
Create Art, by providing professionally-led visual and performing arts instruction taught by experienced, engaged teaching artists in order to develop students' art skills and provide tools for creative expression, and by offering our students opportunities for public exhibition and performance in order to develop confidence;
Create Opportunity, by offering after-school programming in a safe, structured environment that promotes positive youth development and learning through cultivation of skills including critical thinking and problem solving, effective communication, and leadership; and
Create Community, by connecting students to their local environment through artistic and cultural experiences in their neighborhoods, and by encouraging respectful, supportive artistic collaboration among peers and teachers, in order to develop a sense of belonging, positive cultural identity, and civic engagement.
By working in partnership with social service organizations (like So Others Might Eat and Community of Hope) that offer emergency, transitional, and long-term housing to homeless families, we deliver important services to children in D.C.'s communities of greatest need. In our 18 years as a community arts education organization, Project Create has served nearly 1,500 homeless and poor children in Washington, D.C. Through collaboration with our like-minded partners, Project Create is working to break the cycle of chronic homelessness and poverty one child at a time.
Our current recent classes include visual arts (drawing, painting, graphic design, photography, sculpture and pottery, and mixed media) and performing arts (dance and drumming, hip-hop dance, step dance, theater, puppetry, and martial arts). Every Project Create class is taught by a professional artist with an arts education background and/or professional experience in the arts. During our Spring 2012 Semester, Project Create delivered a 15-week semester of arts classes for more than 150 children in Washington, D.C. Project Create offered 11 arts courses, each of which met weekly at one of our seven sites.
Our Board members are dedicated individuals who come from different professional and social backgrounds, but share a passion for our community and for showing children and youth the benefits of participating in the arts. Talk with us about the organization and how you can lend your strengths!
To learn more, contact Allison Posner, Project Create's Board and Staff Recruitment chair, at allison@projectcreatedc.org.
Project Create ● 2401 Virginia Avenue N.W. ● Washington, D.C. 20037 ● (202) 660-2555
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