A not for profit educational corporation dedicated to expanding creative opportunities through immersion programs designed to maximize artistic and intellectual achievement and personal growth.

Education , Student Services

Program service accomplishments: barat foundation public arts and arts education programs include: 1. In school and after-school artist in residence programs at newark schools and community organizations, which relate to and are in direct support of support of age and grade appropriate nj core curriculum content standards for the arts. 2. Large-scale community created public artworks and art installations -animodules , currently on view at newark liberty international airport, turtle back zoo, rutgers university, and nps. Now seen by over 500,000 travelers to our region per year, these public art installations created by the children of the city create ownership, encourage community engagement and civic responsibility. 3. The creation nation art and peace parade and creator's clubs: the largest collaborative art event in newark, having celebrated its 11th year as the kick-off to celebration 350 - a citywide celebration of newark's 350th anniversary. In 2017 the parade brought together thousands of newark youth, the newark public schools, the newark arts council, njpac, the municipal council and numerous community, civic, and business organizations, to celebrate creativity and the power of art to transform lives and communities. The parade is preceded by 2 months of free and open art making workshops "creator's clubs". 4. Youth entrepreneurship through the arts: entrepreneurship education affording newark youth experiential learning opportunities to identify and develop artistic creative ideas to produce viable business opportunities. 5. Summer study abroad: summer language, culture and art immersion programs abroad, including the willie cole scholarship fund for newark youth. To date the barat foundation has taken over 60 newark youth abroad on scholarship to this program, awarding over $400,000 in scholarships. 100% of past summer scholarship recipients have gone on to college. The 2017 summer program abroad was cancelled with an expected recommencement date of summer 2019. The barat foundation continued their "public art by the public" programs, developing and producing public art pieces created by schools and communities working directly with professional artists. The barat foundation has created a newark original art-form called the animodule -- a combination of the words "animate and "modular; sculptures created by joining two flat planes together to create a 3 dimensional sculpture. The animodule curriculum is an inter-disciplinary arts program including research, visual arts, language arts, and mathematics as students work together to create something larger than themselves, and building an enduring art piece that represents their community. Their artwork then becomes part of an even greater whole when it joins its fellow animodules in the annual creation nation art parade. This program employs numerous new jersey artists who have the opportunity to share their vision, passion and expertise with new jersey youth, while producing an impressive body of work. The animodule curriculum is in relation to and in support of age and grade appropriate nj core curriculum content standards for the arts. To date over 70 animodules have been created in newark schools and community organizations. At the invitation of the port authority of new york/new jersey, the barat foundation has put in place an installation of student-created animodule sculptures at the arrivals area at terminal b of newark liberty international airport. The exhibition, accompanied by signage and two videos running on a loop explaining the animodule process, was first installed in january 2014 to greet dignitaries visiting new york/new jersey for the superbowl. The exhibition has been so successful that the port authority has requested that it now remain at the airport indefinitely. Animodules proclaimed the "official peace ambassadors of newark". The barat foundation animodules were proclaimed in june 2013 as "the official peace ambassadors of newark"