Programs
Next Stop Studio
Next Stop Studio is our longest running initiative. Each month we facilitate studio pop-ups at local group children’s homes. Some children we see are on track to be reunited with their families, while others will remain in the foster care system until they become adults. Regular NOMAD team visits provide children with a comforting and fun way to express themselves, and something to look forward to every month.
Help Bring Art to Children’s Homes:
Rolling Studio
You may know us best from our massive mobile canvas: the NOMAD Art Bus! Found at various local events and popping up in your neighborhood, the bus is our headquarters and office space. It roams from place to place for community bus painting, bringing art to all.
Keep us rolling:
Justice Studio
If you’re like us, you believe that all children should have access to art programming. Justice Studio is our in-house after-school art studio program at the Pinellas Regional Juvenile Detention Center. Two to three times each week, NOMAD’s teaching artists host small groups to create and explore with youth detained and/or committed by circuit courts in Pinellas, Polk, Highlands, and Hardee counties.
Support Art for All:
Studio on the Block
Childs Park, St Petersburg, FL
MicroCamp
Under our Studio on the Block initiative, we provide resources for teaching artists to pop up MicroCamps in driveways, yards, and parks in their own neighborhoods. It’s a fun, no-registration way for children to explore their creativity. Easy to bike, walk, or skateboard to, the MicroCamps are a great way to gather for community-building, art activities, and take-home art supplies.
This initiative has been recognized University of Florida College of the Arts and has been included in their WE-Making Repository as a “Promising Practices Case Study” to facilitate field-wide learning. WE-Making provides a landmark, evidence-informed framework that maps the relationship between place-based arts and cultural strategies, social cohesion, and increased equitable community well-being.
Support creativity in your local backyards: