Are you ready for Art for Progress 2.0?

This month AFP will celebrate its 10 year anniversary. Over the last 10 years we’ve produced over 50 major events in NYC, Miami, San Francisco and Washington D.C. AFP has worked with thousands of students in the NYC Public Schools and with each year our programs are growing. AFP’s Arts Education Program is supported by a generous grant from the Sansom Foundation which enables AFP to support programs that have lost funding, provide alternative programs for gifted students and community workshops in the summer. We are committed to taking AFP from a small growing organization to a large prospering organization that can have a greater impact for children and artists. Our first step is to launch our new artist blog website (May 19th).

We’re only a couple of weeks away from launching the new site and we’re excited about all the possibilities. With plans to have guest bloggers writing about the arts, education and events, the site will have plenty of fresh content. We’ll also need the artists to do their part by writing in their personal blogs and updating & sharing their work. The new site has all the bells and whistles that modern technology offers, and we’re going to do everything we can to make it a huge success. We have a marketing budget to provide the proper exposure for the new site, and our site already ranks on the first page of Google for a number of important searches. Along with the launch of the new site, we’ll be kicking off a series of events on May 25th in NYC.

AFP will celebrate 10 years of supporting artists and arts education on Sunday, May 25th at The Bowery Electric. The event will kick off the summer season  and feature several great bands and DJ’s from NYC.  In September we’ll host our main celebration followed by an art exhibition in November.

This is going to be a year to remember for AFP as we celebrate the past 10 years and the exciting future for the organization. We’re proud of all of the great achievements and the lives we have influenced and we look forward to so much more.

Frank Jackson, Founder & Director