Mission
Since 1995, ArtEsteem's award-winning academic day and after school visual arts and extended arts programming cultivates creative, engaged, and successful children and youth through artistic, social-emotional, and academic standards based skills. The curriculum combines Attitudinal Healing Principles with culurally, academically, and environmentally relevant arts instruction. This culminates with an annual student art exhibition. ArtEsteem serves over 2,500 children at an average of fifteen Bay Area school sites during the fiscal year. A sample of the over twenty awards and recognitions include: 2024 Black History Month Commendation from the Alameda County Board of Supervisors, 2019 Community Award from the Oakland Unidfited School District's Office of African American Male Achievement, 2016 Best Arts Nonprofit from the East Bay Express Best of the East Bay Arts & Culture Writers' Picks, 2012 Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition from former Congresswoman Barbara Lee, and 20