Mission Statement:

Free Arts NW provides arts experiences that empower underserved youth to find their creativity, passion, and voice. Through arts education, collaborative projects, and ongoing mentorship, Free Arts NW cultivates individual artistic exploration while strengthening youth participants’ connections to their community.

As facilitators of artistic exploration and expression, Free Arts NW highly values four principals that motive and shape our process with youth:

Belonging

Interdependency

Accomplishment

Generosity

 These four principals are the lens through which we organize our mission and our work directly with youth. They compound the transformative qualities of art to provide powerful growth opportunities for youth.

You can learn how these principals are infused in our work by exploring the corresponding tabs. To read more about us, click here.