Free Arts Los Angeles Art Programs
11099 South La Cienega Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90045
About
Free Arts Los Angeles Programs offers weekly art education classes with engaging, art-based projects such as drawing, painting, movement, and music. The program includes collaborative art projects, wellness activities for youth and families to reduce stress, and art-based interventions for youth awaiting court testimony, adoption, and family unification. It also provides virtual and in-person art therapy activities for hospitalized children, culturally and linguistically responsive art workshops, and a one-day festival featuring art, music, and food, along with activities that focus on strengthening family bonds through art.
• Ages: 5–18 years old
Free Arts Los Angeles Programs uses art to restore hope, resiliency, and self-esteem in children in Los Angeles ages 5–18 who have experienced abuse, poverty, neglect, and/or homelessness. Its curriculum-based programs include the FreeArts Teaching Artist & Mentor Program, Dancing with FreeArts Stars, FreeArts Holding Hands Artistry Hospital Program, FreeArts for Court Program, FreeArts for Families, and FreeArts Art Festivals. The organization engages roughly 16,500 youth annually in its art education programs and maintains about 30 community partnerships in Los Angeles, including collaborations with the Shelter Care and Transportation Unit within the Department of Children and Family Services, MemorialCare Children’s & Women’s Hospital of Long Beach (Cherese Mari Laulhere Child Life Program), Aviva Family and Children’s Services, and Edmund D. Edelman Children’s Court (Shelter Care). The leadership team includes Chief Executive Officer Bianca Hunter, who has over 20 years of nonprofit experience focused on enhancing financial sustainability and fostering partnerships, along with staff and board members such as Tierra Smith, Jocelyn Garcia, Jennifer Foyer, Michelle McCarthy, Janet Nelson, Grant Hartwell, Aaron Battista, and Jessica Staheli. Testimonials from partner organizations and board members describe Free Arts Los Angeles Programs as providing art activities step-by-step with pediatric patients, offering joint ventures that allow children going through emotional trauma to express themselves through art, and bringing programs directly to children at court and in their neighborhoods.
Last updated April 1, 2026.
• Ages: 5–18 years old
Free Arts Los Angeles Programs uses art to restore hope, resiliency, and self-esteem in children in Los Angeles ages 5–18 who have experienced abuse, poverty, neglect, and/or homelessness. Its curriculum-based programs include the FreeArts Teaching Artist & Mentor Program, Dancing with FreeArts Stars, FreeArts Holding Hands Artistry Hospital Program, FreeArts for Court Program, FreeArts for Families, and FreeArts Art Festivals. The organization engages roughly 16,500 youth annually in its art education programs and maintains about 30 community partnerships in Los Angeles, including collaborations with the Shelter Care and Transportation Unit within the Department of Children and Family Services, MemorialCare Children’s & Women’s Hospital of Long Beach (Cherese Mari Laulhere Child Life Program), Aviva Family and Children’s Services, and Edmund D. Edelman Children’s Court (Shelter Care). The leadership team includes Chief Executive Officer Bianca Hunter, who has over 20 years of nonprofit experience focused on enhancing financial sustainability and fostering partnerships, along with staff and board members such as Tierra Smith, Jocelyn Garcia, Jennifer Foyer, Michelle McCarthy, Janet Nelson, Grant Hartwell, Aaron Battista, and Jessica Staheli. Testimonials from partner organizations and board members describe Free Arts Los Angeles Programs as providing art activities step-by-step with pediatric patients, offering joint ventures that allow children going through emotional trauma to express themselves through art, and bringing programs directly to children at court and in their neighborhoods.
Last updated April 1, 2026.
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