Sitar Arts Center

About

Celebrating Kids, Art and Community.

Story

Sitar Arts Center provides a safe haven after school, on Saturdays and during the summer months where children and youth can explore the arts. The Center fosters personal and artistic growth through the visual arts, music, drama, dance, digital arts and creative writing. We offer classes to more than 700 students a year, 80 percent of whom come from low-income households.

Sitar Arts Center relies on charitable contributions to bring high-quality arts education to families who would otherwise not have these opportunities, ensuring that no family is ever turned away because of inability to pay.

In addition to classes for students of all ages, Sitar Arts Center presents both Performance and Gallery Series, exposing our students, and the greater community, to a variety of artists and art forms at a professional level. All exhibits and performances are free and open to the public.

Mission

Sitar Arts Center brings its diverse community together to give underserved children and youth the opportunity to explore and study the visual and performing arts in an afterschool safe haven. The Center partners with local volunteer artists and arts organizations to provide comprehensive arts education, nurturing relationships and high expectations that enable young people to better know and express themselves as they discover and develop their artistic gifts.