The Performance Center

“Legere’s Paintbrush Not Guns initiative provides free after-school bilingual art, music, and performance education for children in communities of color, indigenous communities, and refugee communities.

Legere’s work demonstrates that art is not just a means of expression—it is a tool for justice, education, and transformation. Political aesthetics must move beyond symbolic critique and become integrated into social action. Legere’s free afterschool, Saturday and summer program Paint Brushes Not Guns is a leading example of this new paradigm of aesthetic activism—one that is not merely about representation but about material change, cultural survival, and collective empowerment.”

All proceeds from Phoebe Legere Art and Music go to sponsor scholarships and free art training for children and youth. We give free after school, Saturday and summer programs for gifted and brilliant children and families in New York State, New Jersey, Massachusetts and Maine. Please learn more about our work fighting violence, poverty and racism. Thank you for considering a donation to “Paint Brushes Not Guns!" Click this link to visit our 501 (c)(3) New York registered charity

https://www.foundationfornewamericanart.org The donate button is in the corner, or write a check to Foundation for New American Art - #15

224 East 10th St. New York, NY 10003

Write to NationalDirector at foundationfornewamericaart.org to learn how you can get involed, volunteer, donate musical instruments or a working van or bus, donate space, donate materials, refer a family or child.

Photo: Our new headquarters in Poughkeepsie, NY. is on the National Register of Historic Places. We thank Bente Strong for the loan of a Steinway grand piano for our beautiful children who dance, sing and learn the secret science of music and art in our historic Romanesque Tower! Our teachers are board certified! Our CEO (President Phoebe Legere) is an unpaid volunteer who works tirelessly to fulfill our mission: To educate, strengthen and nurture the artistic and musical spirit of multi-ethnic children.

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