Project Create

Community partnership program: project create provides multidisciplinary arts education classes in partnership with community-based organizations that provide services to children, youth, and families experiencing homelessness and poverty. Program offerings, designed with a therapeutic and trauma-informed approach, include weekly classes, arts enrichment field trips, and performance and exhibition opportunities for kids of all ages. Ourcollaborations combat barriers to arts education accessibility.

Art therapy program: heart space, project creates art therapy program, is delivered by registered art therapists to provide mental health and social-emotional support through small group sessions. Programs, offered to children and families, focus on how to use art techniques to increase emotional wellness, decrease anxiety, and build resilience while connecting to others. Sessions include visual art therapy, music therapy and dance therapy. All programs are free for dc families.

Project create provides opportunities for creative youth development through accessible, multidisciplinary arts education to empower young people and amplify their voices. Project create students participate in free out-of-school-time art classes and art therapy groups, both at our own arts center in anacostia, as well as at multiple community partner sites in underserved dc neighborhoods. Project create serves over 2,000 dc children, youth and their family members every year.