Mission
The mission of ArtsChange is to promote imagination, health and wellbeing in stressed East Bay neighborhoods, by engaging artists and communities in the creation of socially conscious art designed for accessible public settings.
History
ArtsChange traces its origin to a Contra Costa County health center in Richmond, CA, in 1996. Founding nurses, doctors, frontline health center staff and visual artists, believed in the powerful connection between art and health and saw opportunities to engage patients, staff and community in the arts, and for artists to contribute to the wellbeing and healing of one of the Bay Area's most stressed communities. ArtsChange has produced more than 70 exhibitions at a variety of venues, working with leading Bay Area Public Artists and a wide variety of community partners. ArtsChange has followed a steady course of artistic and professional development for more than a decade, bringing visual arts, new media, performing arts, dialogue and educational programs to county health centers, museums, community settings, and workplaces. ArtsChange forges new venues and boundaries between the arts, medicine and social change.