Families of every background gather in our free afterschool program to paint, play instruments, dance, and imagine a better world together.
Your donation makes it possible for children—English-speaking, Spanish-speaking, Chinese-speaking, all speaking the language of creativity—to grow up surrounded by beauty, culture, and community.
Give today and join a circle of donors who believe that every child deserves art. All supporters are invited to our Donor Thank-You Celebration—una fiesta de creatividad, 快乐的社区聚会.
Niños son sagrados. La creatividad es la herencia del alma. 孩子的未来是我们共同的责任.
Foundation for New American Art (FNAA), a nonprofit 501c3, was founded by multidisciplinary artist Phoebe Legere. Phoebe recognized a dire need to provide arts education programs to children living in low-income, underserved communities. Public schools in these districts suffer from having very low or absolutely no budgets for art/music/dance & theater curriculum.
Phoebe Legere’s FNAA provides after-school programs, creates and hosts festivals, concerts, and community gatherings, offers free music and art classes, invites caregivers and grandfamilies to participate in creative arts sessions, and offers a haven for children who have no opportunities to express their artistic selves.
Originally formed as the New York Underground Museum, a place to archive and showcase the works of both recognized and unrecognized artists of the community, the organization evolved into the Foundation for New American Art to offer much-needed cultural equity to children and families with little or no access to the Arts.
The Foundation for New American Art offers the promise that neglected neighborhoods can achieve a considerable degree of much needed cultural equity.
