Over the summer, a group of uniquely talented teenagers gathered to share how our juvenile justice system is broken and the reality of what it is like for a young person to navigate the system...
Lift Us Up, Don’t Push Us Out! is the newest exhibition and mixed-reality experience by Performing Statistics (a project of ART 180), that connects incarcerated teens with artists, legal experts, and...
ART 180’s annual grassroots giving campaign, The Amazing Dream, is coming soon! Help us sustain a platform for hundreds of young people across Richmond to express themselves, and to expand upon their...
From utopias where everyone is helped and welcomed, to moving poems, and artwork inspired by music...these are the intricate projects our young people have been creating all summer. Now their amazing...
In the spirit of our 20th anniversary, we’re opening a new exhibition on August 3 to celebrate the hard work and generosity of our talented program leaders, who design projects that let our youth...
New exhibition coming to ART 180, featuring abstract art created using acrylic painting techniques, alongside prints and video of performing art. The art, created by teens a part of our Atlas program...
An original play calling attention to some of the mental challenges and dilemmas young people face in their daily lives. Written and performed by ART 180 teens, under the direction of The...
New exhibition coming to ART 180, featuring blind contour and gesture artwork created using observational drawing techniques, alongside poetry and video of step show performance art. The art, created...
Join us this Friday, May 4, to celebrate the opening reception of our new Atlas exhibition: little BIG! little BIG features selected works from The Really BIG Show, spotlighting spring programs from...
Young people from across the Richmond area will come together on Saturday, April 28, 2018, from 1-4 p.m. for ART 180's annual celebration of youth voices and showcase of their visual and performing...
We're hosting an opening reception for Future Studio on April 13 from 6 to 9 p.m., an exhibition featuring artwork by high schoolers in the first Future Studio program of VCUarts' Department of...
New exhibition coming to ART 180, "Don't Forget to Breathe,” features artwork created by Chesterfield County Public Schools elementary students who participate in their schools’ Get Ready to Learn...
Young artists from ART 180’s fall 2017 community programs will be celebrated in January as they share their art, music, dance, and poetry with the public. Open Studio highlights visual &...
“My Reality” is re-opening in the SunTrust Center on East Main Street -- where the JLARC, the General Assembly's watchdog agency, is temporarily meeting while their main building is under...
Each young person is a valuable part of our community. We promise to offer a supportive and nurturing environment, which allows our young people an opportunity to bring into being the beauty that exists within their creative spirits.
We Believe in Creative Expression
Everyone will be free to be an artist who can give birth to a masterpiece, because we recognize that innovation is the heartbeat of growth.
We Believe in Communication
We seek to provoke ideas and stimulate conversation that encourages self-awareness and expression of diverse perspectives, remove barriers of fear, create a better understanding of humanity, and illuminate hope.
We Believe in Compassion
We advocate kindness to heal division and resolve conflicts, because everyone has a right to be heard, to experience love, and to be treated with dignity and mutual respect.
We Believe in Community
We value the importance of collaborative relationships, which celebrate diversity. We recognize that by sharing together we're capable of making even greater creative contributions that can enhance the well-being and quality of life for the whole.
We Believe in Change
We embrace change as a gift that empowers young people to transform our world through creative expression. It provides opportunities to be passionately engaged in a natural process of learning, challenging complacency and discovering opportunities to live a meaningful life.
