Collaborations
among people or groups of people that may or may not be spatially connected, but who share common interests, concerns or identities which could be local, national or international, with specific or broad interests.
Introductory Batik Painting Online
In this workshop participants will create their own Batik artworks from start to finish. This workshop will allow students to unleash their creativity using a variety of resist art techniques.
Empowerment Through
Community Empowerment
Aims at building an enabling environment for upcoming and amateur artists in any community. It focuses primarily on the visual, literary and performing arts.
Enhancing the status
Constitutes the most important strategic initiative for poverty alleviation in every community. Our focus in this vulnerable segment of society therefore constitutes an irrevocable component of our long-term goals and vision.
Our purpose
Opportunity for
every community.
Information has the power to change lives. Together, we put it within reach.
Our mission is to serve as a catalyst for the improvement of the status of underserved populations around the world. We work through information dissemination, cross-cultural dialogue, problem solving, resource identification, education, training, and research, among others, as tools.
Discover our missionOur values
Every person.
Equal potential.
We value the inherent capability and potential equality of every human being.
Whatever their education, nationality, race, creed, social class, religion, sexual orientation, or other demographic characteristic.
Explore our valuesCommunity empowerment through the arts
Creative skills. Stronger communities.
Through workshops and community arts programs, we help people build skills, express their creativity, and connect with one another. Explore highlights from our work below.
2018
From our archive · 2018
2018 Community Arts Program Batik Painting Workshop Jan – June 2018
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Creativity brings us together.
Explore our workshopsLearning by creating
A space to learn.
A chance to express.
Our community arts program aims to build an enabling environment for upcoming and amateur artists, with a focus on the visual, literary, and performing arts.
Through batik painting workshops, participants explore resist art techniques and create their own artworks from start to finish.
View the 2023 workshopPast program · May–June 2023
Our long-term commitment
Enhancing the
status of women.
Enhancing the status of women constitutes the most important strategic initiative for poverty alleviation in every community.
Our focus in this vulnerable segment of society therefore constitutes an irrevocable component of our long-term goals and vision.
Read our strategyHistorical workshop spotlight
Introductory Batik
Painting Online
Batik Painting virtual workshop
In this workshop participants will create their own Batik artworks from start to finish. This workshop will allow students to unleash their creativity using a variety of resist art techniques.
Community empowerment through the arts. Grant provided by Queens Council For the Arts.
Read the 2021 workshop archivePast workshop. Registration has ended.
Let’s Change the World Together
Broad Goals
We view the world as a precious asset entrusted in our care for future generations and therefore pursue policies that treat it as such.
01Read our strategy
Disparity reduction
to facilitate policy initiatives and interventions that make for a more equitable society.
02Read our strategy
Poverty Alleviation
to strengthen public policies that support children more effectively.
03Read our strategy
Environmental sustainability
to strengthen public policies and practices that foster a healthy world.
04Read our strategy
Enhancing the status of women
who bear a disproportionate burden of global poverty.
05Read our strategy
Human and democratic rights
Aimed at improving the quality of life for all of mankind.
Creative Ideas
are an essential part of high performance systems. Communication and sharing of information at this level is assumed to be associated with empowerment.
Communication
Communication and information technology have created new opportunities for communities which have enable them to build and manage empowerment process where members collaborate in utilizing technology
From the original program archive
A history of participation.
Figures recorded on our previous homepage; these are historical figures, not current totals.
- Workshops
- 29
- Exhibitions
- 18
- Participants
- 265
- Demonstrations
- 45
From our archive
Learning. Making.
Sharing.
2021
2021 Community Arts Program
Batik Painting Virtual Workshop
2020
2020 Community Arts Program
Batik Painting Virtual Workshop
2018
2018 Community Arts Program
Batik Painting Workshop · January–June
2017
Rockaway Waterfront Alliance
Batik Painting Workshop
2017
LaGuardia College Community Program
Jamaica Center Mural 3
2016
LaGuardia College Community Program
Jamaica Center Mural 1
2014
University of Lagos
Silk Painting Workshop
2014
OYASAF / University of Lagos
Batik Painting Workshop
From our program history
Past support.
Shared purpose.
Explore our original program archive
Organizations acknowledged in our previous website’s program history. Past support also included NYC Cultural Affairs.