These pages are under constructon and will provide a pictorial of each program

After School Special Arts (ASSA)
ASSA offers visual art classes to children ages 13-22 who have learning disabilities attending from Union, Essex and Morris counties - majority of students attend from the ECLC. Designed to enhance self-expression, the program allows for the children to engage in projects that offer them new techniques but are less structured.

Art From the Heart
This program offers visual art lessons to the older adults at SAGE's Spend-A-Day Facility in Summit reaching 12 older adults per week. The program's goal is aimed at keeping the participants' minds sharp, uncover hidden talents and encourage self-expression.

Artists With Disabilities (AWD)
WD offers a creative outlet for the participants of the ARC's of Essex, Morris and Union Counties. The program is reaching approximately 90 clients per week. Volunteers are always needed to provide individual attention to students.

BRIDGES
The Visual Art Center has partnered with BRIDGES of Summit and the Newark Residency Program to create a wonderful program that brings housed and homeless teens together at the Art Center for hands-on art lessons with a professional artist and instructor. The goal of this program is to create a neutral environment for teens of different communities to meet and work on stimulating art projects together. These opportunities promote the understanding of problems and issues of homelessness, while pointing out similarities between housed and homeless teens. It is expected that a sense of community, togetherness, teamwork, respect, and support form within the group. Additionally, personal and individual growth is developed through self-expression, pride, and sense of accomplishment.

The Connection for Women & Families
This program provides visual art lessons to the children attending The Connection's After School Enrichment Program at elementary schools in Summit. This program engages children, whose parent(s) work through the evening, in homework and activities.

Elizabethport Presbyterian Center, Inc - Children.
The Visual Arts Center will offer visual art lessons to the children, ages 6-12, within the Elizabethport Center's after school program that concentrates on learning activities such as homework, tutoring and cultural projects among others. The program is structured to develop positive attitudes and reward students for success in a caring and accepting atmosphere.

Elizabethport Presbyterian Center, Inc – Older Adults
This program offers a visual arts experience to the senior citizens who attend Elizabethport Presbyterian Center. There are 15 – 20 seniors that engage in art projects that provide an outlet for them to proudly create and express themselves while keeping their minds’ sharp and focused.

Newark Boys & Girls Club
The Visual Arts Center has partnered with the Boys & Girls Club of Newark and Glass Roots, a glass-making facility in Newark, to offer visual art classes to children in the B&G Club. The goal of this program is to keep children engaged in an after school activity so they are not exposed to an environment filled with violence, drugs, etc. while creating a sense of commitment and responsibility. Children learn design techniques to implement into other areas of the visual arts.

NJ SEEDS
NJ SEEDS The Visual Arts Center provides a visual art component to the Young Scholars' Program at NJ SEEDS, an organization located in Newark that offers a 4-step program to high-achieving students, and helps place them in private schools. A total of 45 students in the 5th & 6th grades receive Art History and Hands-on sessions. Students show growth in knowledge through each lesson as terms, artists, movements, etc. are consistently revisited throughout the program.

Overlook Hospital - Dr. Roy Nuzzo
This program offers visual art lessons to patients of Dr. Roy Nuzzo, Neurosurgeon at Overlook Hospital, who have various neuromuscular diseases. The goal is to strengthen their fine motor skills and build their self-esteem and confidence.

St. Philip's Academy
This program offers visual art classes to children enrolled in the after school program at St. Philip's Academy located in Newark, reaching approximately 36 students in grades K-8th. The school is dedicated to promoting a diligent work ethic, tolerance, mutual respect for others, and personal responsibility as a way of life and the program is geared toward enhancing the student's own interests in the visual arts.

Summit Housing Authority
The Visual Arts Center offers visual art sessions to children in grades K-12 that live in the Summit Housing Authority’s Glenwood Street and Weaver Street housing. The goal of this program is to help strengthen the children’s abilities in school by coming together and committing to specially planned art projects. Additionally, this experience enhances their art background by bringing them into the Art Center to learn about our studios, our equipment, to tour the Art Gallery, learn a bit of art history, and become acquainted with a museum environment. Some of the artwork created by the students will be exhibited in the Senior Building. This program will also be able to inform the students of possible internships and scholarships at the Art Center.