WHAT WE DO
Community-Word Project is a New York City based arts-in-education organization that inspires children in underserved communities to read, interpret and respond to their world and to become active citizens through collaborative arts residencies and teacher training programs.
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COLLABORATIVE ARTS RESIDENCIES
Multi-disciplinary, arts-integrated curriculum provides alternative learning strategies for writing and creative expression.
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TEACHING ARTIST TRAINING
Rigorous training and mentoring prepares artists to achieve academic and curricular goals while drawing upon their professional passion.
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PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Purposeful collaboration with teachers and administrators improves arts pedagogy and enhances curricular outcomes.
OUR NEWS
Surreal Science
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Surrealism may have been an avant-garde movement, but we are using it to teach lessons in the very analytical and practical field of science. After all, science itself is creative! READ MOREAUCTION: Boy of Collodion: Cooper, 2013
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"A Dot Red" explores new perspectives on traditional genres and images in landscape and portrait photography. Combining historical techniques with contemporary conceptual strategies, these works shift focus to a reconsideration of its classical subjects. READ MORESparks of Joy for Learning
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CWP Program Director Megan Morrison finds vibrant learners in slums of Jakarta. In November of 2013 I voyaged across the globe to teach theatre and dance to children in Indonesia. READ MORE16 years of IMPACT
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15,000+
KIDS EDUCATED
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48,000+
INDIVIDUAL AND COLLABORATIVE STUDENT POEMS WRITTEN
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3,200
CLASSROOM TEACHERS + AFTER SCHOOL LEADERS TRAINED
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700+
TEACHING ARTISTS TRAINED
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141
MURALS PAINTED
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65
TEACHING ARTISTS EMPLOYED
GET INVOLVED
Help us fundamentally change the lives of NYC kids.
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Donate
Inspire lifelong learners by supporting arts education. Fundamentally change the lives of underserved kids.
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Teach
Train and work as a teaching artist and expand your passion for literacy and the arts into underserved classrooms.
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VOLUNTEER
Volunteer, sponsor or partner with CWP! Join the dialog, attend an event, or let us tailor opportunities to participate.
where we are
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ALESSANDRA BALZARBENEFIT CO-CHAIR, 2013
Community-Word Project encourages literacy through the arts, helping kids with their education and sparking a life-long love of learning and the written word.
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MEGAN QUITKINHARMAN FAMILY FNDN.
CWP program beneficiaries--teachers, parents, young people--are empowered with literacy and leadership skills they will carry with them for years to come.
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LISETTE GIUTIEREZVOLUNTEER, BLACKROCK
Luckily, my great-aunt nurtured my creativity. I infuse that passion into my volunteerism and my firm's grants help CWP kids explore their joy of expression.
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FELIPE GALINDOTEACHING ARTIST
CWP's poetry and murals projects let me work with kids of diverse backgrounds, ages and nationalities and share my passion for drawing and painting.
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MICAELA BLEITEACHING ARTIST TRAINEE
It's clear CWP is about collaboration: trainees do tons of it! We also had sessions on job-hunting, classroom management and integrating art forms.
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CHAD FRISBIETEACHING ARTIST
With my students I return to the question, "What can poetry do?" I love how that forces me to rethink my craft while I teach the next generation of creative thinkers.
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LUCY FRIEDMAN,PRESIDENT, TASC
CWP inspires kids to dream, create, and share. It gives them a voice filled with pride. I am hopeful that all kids not only become literate, but also enjoy literacy.
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TERRI GREYPRINCIPAL, BHSWCA
Our work with CWP helped with our Quality Review. It was used as evidence to prove we were doing what we said we were going to do.
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