Free Arts NYC provides under-served children and families with a unique combination of educational arts and mentoring programs that help them to foster the self-confidence and resiliency needed to realize their fullest potential.
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Sites Served

Free Arts helps children who are not only at-risk but who also lack access to the arts. Often their schools do not offer the arts and their families are unable to afford creative enrichment outside of school-time.

Our arts mentors and children meet on location at our partner sites - charter schools, beacon centers, homeless and domestic shelters as well as other social service agencies that serve at-risk youth.

We partner with these agencies for a minimum of three years to ensure children receive long-term programming, proven to generate more positive results.



2008-2009 Partner Sites


Barbara Blum Residence (Good Shepherd Services) Sunset Park, Brooklyn
BELL at CS200 West Harlem, Manhattan
CAMBA Beacon Center at P.S. 269 East Flatbush, Brooklyn
Center for Court Innovation South Bronx, Bronx
Children's Aid Society West Harlem, Manhattan
Community Roots Charter School Fort Greene, Brooklyn
Dream Charter School East Harlem
Dreitzer House (Palladia) East Harlem, Manhattan
Euphrasian Hall (Good Shepherd Services) East Village, Manhattan
Excellence Charter School Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn
The Family Center Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn & Manhattan
Future Leaders Institute West Harlem, Manhattan
GO Project West Village, Manhattan
Grand Street Settlement Beacon Center Lower East Side, Manhattan
Harlem Link Charter School West Harlem, Manhattan
I Have a Dream Foundation, Dehostos-Wise Program Upper West, Manhattan
Lincoln Square Neighborhood Center Upper West, Manhattan
Little Sisters of the Assumption FHS East Harlem, Manhattan
Neighborhood Family Empowerment Center (Good Shepherd Services) Belmont, Bronx
North Bronx Family Service Center (Good Shepherd Services) University Heights, Bronx
STEPS to End Family Violence East Harlem, Manhattan
Stratford House (Palladia) Soundview, Bronx
Union Settlement Association East Harlem, Manhattan



Through the Department of Homeless Services, Free Arts served youth in the care of the following New York City shelters:
Abyssinian House
Belt Family Residence
Crotona Inn
Hamilton Hotel
HELP Bronx Crotona
Jamaica Family Center
Junius Family Center
Nelson Family Center
Project Hospitality
Theresa's Haven
Urban Family Center
Urban Transitional Residence
St. John's Place