Working Classroom Inc

About

An award-winning arts and education program promoting the creative, academic, and leadership potential of talented young artists from "historically ignored communities." www.workingclassroom.org/about

Story

Working Classroom is a multi-ethnic, inter-generational community of student & professional artists, writers, actors and directors with a conscious commitment to supporting new and diverse voices and visions in the arts. The underrepresentation and caricature of historically ignored communities hampers our understanding of who we are as a nation, how we interpret our past and contemplate our future. We contribute to a more nuanced understanding of American identity by training aspiring artists and actors from historically ignored communities and creating art and theater by, for and about these communities.

Mission

Working Classroom operates on the following
core values:

We believe the arts both mirror who we are as a nation and help us interpret where we are headed and what we want to become. As long as some communities are invisible or underrepresented, the reflection is distorted and the conversation incomplete.

Working Classroom prepares students to contribute to a more nuanced definition of our collective identity.

To this end . . .

We recruit the majority of our students, board, staff and instuctors from historically ignored communities;

We nurture students' ability to work in their native languages;

We utilize formal and informal education to prepare students for professional success;

We promote human rights and peace through the arts, seek and nurture international artistic collaboration and do not accept contributions from weapons manufacturers.

Products

Street Conservatory
Visiones Gallery
Theater Company
Public Art Program