The Heart of Art: A Home for the Community Arts Program

You can play an essential role in building and sustaining a home for our community of neighborhood artists.

The struggle of the artist – to create, to challenge, to affirm one’s identity – is, in many ways, a struggle shared by many of us. And for artists experiencing poverty, experiencing homelessness, the struggle becomes even more profound; it becomes a struggle to validate one’s very existence – what it means to be human.

Here is where a safe space to dream, to create, to express becomes more than an art studio with colored pens, paints, brushes, canvases, clay. This space becomes a community where stories are shared and ideas blossom, transformed into drawings, paintings, sculptures. This space is Hospitality House’s Community Arts Program.

Founded in 1969, Hospitality House’s Community Arts Program, the City's only free fine arts studio for low-income and unhoused artists, is an award-winning creative community and unique social enterprise. Artists refine their creative talents through skills-building workshops, reach broader audiences and exposure through exhibitions and thematic art shows, and keep 100% of the proceeds from their art sales, promoting the arts – and artists - as economic assets for the greater community.  The Community Arts Program offers an outlet for creative self-expression and cultural connectivity that would otherwise be unattainable by offering neighborhood artist resources and materials to create, exhibit, and sell their artwork.