The Village of Arts and Humanities

Civic and Social OrganizationsUnited States11-50 Employees

The Village of Arts and Humanities is a 38-year-old arts and community revitalization organization rooted in Philadelphia's deeply disinvested Fairhill-Hartranft neighborhood. 

Our mission is to support artists and Black community residents to imagine, design, and build a more just and equitable society. 

Ultimately, we envision a thriving Fairhill-Hartranft neighborhood of Philadelphia where Black neighborhood residents are leaders, stewards, and ultimate beneficiaries of reinvestment, recovery, and revitalization.

To achieve this vision, we engage more than 1500 community members annually through programs and projects that blend art with social justice, youth leadership, and equitable revitalization.
We seek to impact four overarching objectives:
-To help organize community groups that design and implement strategies for care-based public safety
-To preserve, evolve, and amplify our neighborhood's history of Black-centered arts, activism, and community development
-To prepare young people to enter the workforce and postsecondary education as creative problem solvers and social innovators
-To model and promote neighborhood revitalization efforts that deliver opportunities for shared equity ownership, establish permanent affordability of public property, and create beautiful, green, and aspirational public spaces.

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