Art & Care provides essential health and hygiene goods, social service resources, opportunities for meeting new people, artistic projects, mentorship, and more.

Art & Care takes place at the Studio Museum in Harlem’s Teen Studio and is open to youth across the five boroughs. This is a free creative space to make art, receive support, and build community.

No RSVP or registration is needed; snacks will be provided.

For more info, reach out to Artistic Noise at [email protected].

Artistic Noise builds community with system-impacted young people to enhance lives through the empowering and therapeutic potential of art making.

Since 2001, we have created art in collaboration with thousands of young people who are incarcerated, on probation, in foster care, or otherwise impacted by the juvenile court system. Through visual arts, therapeutic, and entrepreneurship-based programs, participants give voice to their experiences, build community through collaborative projects and explore a variety of valuable life skills in the process.

Artistic Noise programming creates safe and brave spaces where court-involved and system-involved young people can be seen, heard, and supported on their path to adulthood. We believe the practice of art making offers opportunities for young people and communities to transform and to grow. In particular, Artistic Noise helps young people share their individual stories to the public and advocate for themselves across their various communities.

Though people affected by the juvenile court system have a great deal to say they often have very few opportunities to be heard or seen by the public. There can be very few healthy opportunities to assume responsibility and demonstrate leadership, to experience personal accomplishments, grow professionally, or develop their creative voices. At Artistic Noise, we believe it is a healing experience for our artists to tell their own stories rather than relying on others to tell their stories for them.