For over a decade, ArtsChange has created site-specific socially engaged new artworks in Richmond and throughout the East Bay. ArtsChange traces its origin in 1996 to a single Contra Costs County health center in Richmond, CA and has followed a steady course of artistic and organizational development, resulting in production of more than 60 new bodies of work created in collaboration with leading public artists, patients, families and a wide variety of organizational partners.
The core work areas of ArtsChange are nutrition and improvement of the physical environment; violence prevention; and community identity and empowerment. Our core venues are county health centers, service centers and schools but our mediums and methods of interaction are widely and creatively varied, including visual arts, performing arts, film, puppetry, and educational programs. This work is guided by the belief that individual and community health is impacted by a wide range of ecological, social, historical and cultural influences, which can be used to make exciting art, while promoting change, health and wellbeing in Richmond and in other stressed communities in the East Bay.