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About Us

Arts for Art is a NYC-based non-profit founded in 1996 focused on promoting and advancing multicultural improvised arts.

This art includes music, dance, poetry, and visual arts. We are also the home for the Vision Festival, an annual internationally-acclaimed festival in New York City.

Arts for Art is a proud member of the Coalition of Small Arts New York (CoSa).

Mission

Arts for Art is dedicated to the advancement of Creative Improvised Music and Arts aka FreeJazz, an African American multi-art form in which improvisation is principal.

Vision

Through inclusionary curatorial practices, education programs and community engagement, Arts for Art is working to ensure the ongoing development of Creative Improvised Music and Art while maintaining both the legacy and the essential improvisational nature of FreeJazz Arts that originated and developed as forward-thinking Black Music and Arts