Mission Statement
Art Machine, Inc. is a non-profit art organization whose mission is to foster the creativity of young people of all backgrounds and to broaden the viewer's perspective on art and world cultures by:
- Providing a hands-on participatory environment for youth arts expression.
- Creating opportunities for collaboration among young people, artists, educators and partner organizations.
- Integrating the arts into the classroom curriculum, which utilizes cross-curricular criteria.
- Exhibitions of local, regional and global art by young artists.
Vision Statement
Art Machine's programs are designed to :
- Implement the core curriculum guides for the states of Ohio and Kentucky in all key subject areas through the arts.
- Enrich our youth through cross-curricular, hands on activities in an environment which encourages the sharing of ideas.
- Encourage curiosity, creativity, experimentation, the development of critical thinking and heightened sensory and perceptive skills.
- Meet the needs of a diverse audience of children of all ages and physical abilities.
- Enable and empower all children, regardless of social or economic condition, to make and enjoy the visual arts; to respond to their creative intuition and to respond to those of others.
- Familiarize our youth with other cultures so they gain skills that will help them respect our multi-faced community.
- Introduce teachers and children to the value and availability of educational cultural resources in our community.
