Mission

Venice Arts is an innovative arts center that brings talented artists together with low-income young people to nurture their creativity, imagination, and talent.

Venice Arts’ programs focus on those whose access to the arts, as artists or audience, has been limited. Mentor-artists guide young people through experiences with the arts, exposing them to the tools, ideas, and environments that help them express their creativity, build positive inter-ethnic relationships, and improve their academic performance and job readiness.

Programs

ArtPartners—bringing art to the places where young people live, learn, and play in collaboration with Broadway Elementary School, Mar Vista Gardens (Housing Authority/Rec. & Parks), L.A.’s Best Neighborhood Youth Association/The Learning Center, Virginia Park/Santa Monica, & Westminster Elementary School.

Digital Arts—visual art, graphic and web design and animation using industry standard software.

Demonstration Art Classrooms—school-day program teaching visual arts while providing their teachers with hands-on art education training.

Literary Arts—creative writing, poetry, student-produced books.

Performing Arts—acting, dance (African, ballet, Caribbean, modern, Latin & more), performance.

Photography—introductory, intermediate & documentary photography, digital photography, exhibits.

Social Art initiatives—special projects using art to help youth explore social & community issues.

Venice Open Air Performances—street performance at Venice Beach.