Mission, Vision and Purpose:

ArtSeed is a volunteer-based nonprofit public charity with a mission to inspire and empower all people to realize their full potential and embrace diverse communities. Our innovative and collaborative fine arts projects, exhibitions, classroom arts integration and long-term artist/youth studio apprenticeships invite the young and/or disenfranchised to utilize the arts to broaden all of our horizons.

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"ArtSeed got me through a good art school, entered me in numerous art contests and found my job opportunity at the Center for the Arts." -Dana Flores

"After ArtSeed's 2001 SFMOMA Family Studio workshop, adult students like me, realized that we could start taking ourselves seriously as active members of the art world." -Laura Kamian

"My son took lessons privately for three years with ArtSeed. It is a very professional program with outstanding projects from inception to final exhibition." -Rodney Chin

"Habits and values acquired in childhood during private art lessons pulled me through a dangerous period of teenage homelessness. Daily drawing defused my anger and attracted the generosity that saved my life." -Josefa Vaughan