OUR PROGRAMS

The Art & Entrepreneurship program works to develop the creative abilities of system-impacted young people ages 14-22 years old through an exploration of a variety of hands-on artmaking techniques.

Additionally, the group collaborates with a number of galleries, museums, studio spaces, contemporary artists, and more. Taught by a Teaching Artist and Art Therapist each week, A&E participants are paid a stipend for every hour they work with us in our storefront studio space and receive 100% of the proceeds for every artwork that they sell through our gallery shows and exhibitions. By providing immediate economic support as well as a number of individual and group-based therapeutic experiences for the young people who make up our community, the Art & Entrepreneurship Program supports our emerging artists while eliminating the need for them to choose between providing for themselves economically and receiving the therapeutic support that they need.

To receive more information on how young people from your community can take part in this program, please email info@artisticnoise.org

Artistic Noise partners with a variety of nonprofits, social-service organizations, courthouses, foster care spaces, art museums, galleries, educational institutions, and more.

Partnerships with social-service groups, foster care centers, and carcerally-connected organizations provide new entryways for system-impacted young people to begin taking part in our various artmaking programs. Collaborations with museums and galleries provide access to a wide variety of art-making resources and make NYC’s vast network of creative organizations more accessible to our community of young system-impacted artists. Artistic Noise’s Teaching Artists and Art Therapists work offsite on a variety of collaborative arts initiatives including large-scale public mural projects, professional development workshops for nonprofit staff, youth art courses, and more.

For partnership program opportunities, email calderzwicky@artisticnoise.org or call 646-256-7296 for more information.

Midtown Community Justice Center and the Center for Justice Innovation have partnered with Artistic Noise to provide creative, therapeutic, alternatives-to-incarceration programming at their courthouse space every Thursday afternoon.

As part of NYC’s Project Reset, this arts-based initiative allows emerging adults aged 18-26 years old the choice of making art within a therapeutic framework with our team instead of receiving more punitive measures such as fines or probation. Courthouse-related workshops begin with introductory group discussions, modeled in a therapeutic framework, followed by a series of guided artmaking activities meant to address the oftentimes anonymous and dehumanizing nature of court-involved experiences. Before the end of each session, artworks created during the program are discussed as a group and personal experiences and reflections are shared.

More information on this program can be found by emailing info@artisticnoise.org or calling 646-256-7296.

Art & Care is a youth-centered, weekly drop-in program created in collaboration with the School of Visual Arts.

Taking shape primarily as a healing, mutual-aid space for system-impacted youth the program also exists as a free, community-centered artmaking studio. Held every Monday from 12–7pm on the School of Visual Arts’ campus, Artistic Noise’s Art Therapists and community of Teaching Artists provide creative resources and support participants as they make art together and become part of a reciprocal system of care. Drop-in participants receive assistance with basic needs, individualized therapy, and other health-related services while increasing their visibility and impact within an academic space that might otherwise seem inaccessible. Free Metrocards, food, drinks, childcare supplies, artmaking materials, and gift cards are available for anyone who needs them.

Email victoria@artisticnoise.org or call 347-500-3348 for more information.

Artistic Noise works with alumni members who are interested in pursuing their professional goals and developing a career within the visual arts.

Alumni Artists in Residence receive monthly support stipends, as well as art making materials, free art studio access, a variety of paid art-making commissions, studio visits from leading art world professionals, and more. Artistic Noise works alongside the Alumni Artist in Residence to create a system of support so that emerging adult artists from our community can continue to receive the necessary assistance they need in order to maintain a vibrant studio practice in the midst of a variety of other, oftentimes urgent, economic, educational, and personal experiences.

The Alumni Artist in Residence positions are available to recent graduates of our Art & Entrepreneurship program, and serve as a launching point for a variety of real-world experiences within the visual arts.

Email calderzwicky@artisticnoise.org or call 646-256-7296 for more information.

Artistic Noise’s community of past-participants, staff members, board members, artists, and supporters serves as an extension of the work we do within the session space. As a result, young people have access to our community as a network of support. 

Mentorship creates an individualized system of supporting participants’ creative interests, setting career goals, and offering guidance for participants in our AAIR and A&E Program on a regular basis. At Artistic Noise, our mentors range from alumni of our A&E program all the way to leading art world professionals. These mentor/mentee pairs collaborate on a consistent basis, both in and outside of our studio space, to explore their goals, offer feedback on current projects and take full advantage of Artistic Noise’s broad and diverse community of supporters. Based on participants’ needs, mentors offer professional and personal guidance to best support the young people we serve outside of our group-based therapeutic spaces.

To receive more information on how you can provide mentorship to our community, please email info@artisticnoise.org