OUR MISSION
is to bridge the opportunity divide in low to moderate-income areas by providing enhanced access to the arts for youth and adults. We empower students with vital and adaptable creative skills so that they are equipped to overcome challenges, seize future opportunities, and build lifelong community connections.
30+ Community Partners
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20+ Programs
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100+ Volunteers
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2,000+ Student Reach
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30+ Community Partners ⋆ 20+ Programs ⋆ 100+ Volunteers ⋆ 2,000+ Student Reach ⋆
OUR VISION
We believe that the arts are a vehicle for celebrating diversity and promoting inclusion, creating sustainable connections to community and networks that afford greater opportunities. By providing accessible educational programs designed and delivered by qualified instructors, partnering with schools and community centered organizations in spaces conceptualized to showcase the artistic works of local students, we intend to close the gap in art education.
How PCCCArts is Bridging the Gap through Art Education
Programming That Inspires Innovation
PCCCArts embraces the Innovator’s Mindset™ as empowering beliefs which inspire our actions and affirm our connection to our local and broader artist communities.
Building & Strengthening Community
We believe arts are a vehicle for celebrating diversity and promoting inclusion and a pathway to create sustainable connections to community and networks that afford greater opportunities
Equipping Future - Forward Problem Solvers
Each Innovator receives professional development through mentorship relationships within the broader Chicago Arts Community, creating an environment for self & community advocacy in social & educational justice.
Continuing Artistic Legacy
PCCCArts (501c3) is committed to its mission and understands that accessibility to quality art programs is essential to the development of our youth. Therefore, no student, family or community partner will be turned away for the inability to pay.
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Katrise Chávez
Co-Founder, Mentor
