arts organizations

Apart from our own direct work in the global community, the following are a list of some of the other organizations we promote and support... Please show your own support by visiting their site and making a donation or some other form of contribution.

International Child Art Foundation
Are the urgent problems afflicting local communities and the world today (global warming, grinding poverty, mushrooming violence) mere symptoms of something deeper and fundamental? Is it the prevailing system of thinking and feeling?
Where do universal, longer-lasting solutions lie?

Art → Creativity → Innovation?
Empathy → Peace → Respectful Coexistence?

The International Child Art Foundation's mission is to integrate the arts with science, sport and technology for the development of children’s innate creativity and intrinsic empathy – preconditions for a more just, prosperous and nonviolent world. The vision of the International Child Art Foundation is to create a world that nurtures children’s innate creativity, fosters their intrinsic empathy, and includes children’s voices in any deliberation on the future.

Living Principles
The Living Principles for Design aim to guide purposeful action, celebrating and popularizing the efforts of those who use design thinking to create positive cultural change.

Drawing from decades of collective wisdom, theory and results, the Living Principles framework weaves environmental, social, economic, and cultural sustainability into an actionable, integrated approach that can be consistently communicated to designers, business leaders, educators and the public.

Love & Art Children's Foundation
Love & Art Children's Foundation was born out of the desire to reach out to children in need and to offer them, through the arts, a way of expression, empowerment and hope. Each year Love & Art brings its unique art workshop program to a group of children — working with each child, one on one, over the course of several months to create large scale, individual mixed media artworks. Time, attention and care help the children open up and use their vivid imaginations in a new way.

Center for Peace through Culture
The mission of the Center for Peace through Culture is to advance a psychology of peace. The philosophy of CPC is that a core of peace and unity exists in everyone. CPC works with all who are interested in nurturing this core in themselves, their families, their communities, their nations, and the world.

freeDimensional
fD is an ambitious and unique non-profit organization whose mission is to link community art spaces to social justice movements on a global level.

International Art Therapy
The International Art Therapy Organization brings together art therapists, related professionals, and students involved in the fields of art therapy, therapeutic art making, and art for health and social transformation. Its purpose is to:

Establish and maintain a global community for education, communication, and exchange of information on art therapy, therapeutic art making, and art for health and social transformation;
Promote global understanding of art therapy through dissemination of leading edge news and development of media, online education, archives, and publications for its members and the public;
Encourage public recognition of how art therapy makes a difference through development of opportunities to serve to others in need, enhance health, and transform lives;
Advance collaborative research and program development among its members and affiliate groups.

Global Art Project
The mission of the Global Art Project is to joyously create a culture of peace through art. The Project spreads world peace by promoting tolerance and non-violence. The Global Art Project is an expression of the idea: They Are All One.

MOCHA
Building vibrant minds and strong communities through hands-on art.
MOCHA provides hands-on arts learning experiences for children and their families in their museum, in schools and preschools, and in public venues. MOCHA also prepares educators to teach art and integrate arts learning across academic subject areas. As well, they advocate for the arts as an essential part of a strong, vital and diverse community. They emphasize outreach to children in low-income communities that do not typically have wide access to the arts. MOCHA serves more than 35,000 children each year, in five program areas:

Museum Programs
Artists in the Schools
Early Childhood Programs
Professional Development Programs
Community Programs

MOCHA's work draws on research and best practices in the fields of the arts, education and youth development. They have been recognized both locally and nationally for their program excellence and have established a reputation for quality, sustainability and dedication.

CEC Artslink
CEC ArtsLink is an international arts organization. Their programs encourage and support exchange of artists and cultural managers bettheyen the United States and Eastern and Central Europe, Russia, Central Asia and the Caucasus. They believe that the arts are a society’s most deliberate and complex means of communication, and that artists and arts administrators can help nations overcome long histories of reciprocal distrust, insularity and conflict.

Creative Corners
Creative Corners is a volunteer organization that specialises in creative projects for creative people. They match people like you to projects where you are best suited and return profits to communities that need them most.

Eco Art Space
Eco Art Space is one of the leading international organizations in a growing community of artists, scientists, curators, writers, nonprofits and businesses who are developing creative and innovative strategies to address our global environmental issues. They promote a diverse range of artworks that are participatory, collaborative, interdisciplinary and uniquely educational. Their philosophy embodies a broader concept of art in its relationship to the world and seeks to connect human beings aesthetically with the awareness of larger ecological systems.

Washington Project for the Arts
Washington Project for the Arts (WPA) is an independent organization whose mission is to provide essential restheirces to support the creative spirit and success of regional artists. They present contemporary art through imaginative and provocative programs; and connect artists with the community in both traditional and unexpected ways.

Arts Horizons
Arts Horizons is a premier not-for-profit arts-in-education organization that provides live professional performances and artist-in-residence programs to students and professional development for teachers. Thier commitment is to make music, art, dance, theatre, new media and creative writing an integral part not only of learning, but of life. Through the transformative impact of the arts, they reach young people through many dimensions, breaking down the barriers of language and culture, accelerating personal growth, and stimulating children’s full potential to prepare them for life in the twenty-first century.

Make Art, Not War.