our objectives       

• To help members of the community recognize the neighborhood’s own identity, culture, traditional art forms and the value of working together at a local level.
• To provide ongoing educational art programs mentoring and guiding a diverse audience within the community including children, young adults, adults and seniors.
• To make the artistic and cultural programs accessible to the public.
• To develop a strong local creative community that uses the art to stimulate economic development.
• To engage talented artists in projects contributing towards their careers and instills pride, fostering community building.
• To measure the long term positive impact that the arts has among a diverse community.

our history

In February of 2007, two young professionals who shared an interest in art and social justice, Angela Fabregas and Laura Betancur, began exchanging ideas on a topic that was important to both of them; using art as a major tool in social change. The two young women created ArteRed in January, 2008, a project that supports new artists who are truly passionate about their work, thereby creaing a greater awareness of the creative artistic community.

At this point, they did not know how to incorporate a social cause, which they knew would be a powerful addition to the project. Soon enough, in conversations they had with Andrea Niño, she began coming up with ways to create educational, art oriented programs to be held in Latin America in order to address violence, especially in their beloved country of Colombia. ArteRed was then able to define its identity as a project that not only promoted culture, but also contributed to the social development of Latin America.

our mission is to  develop & support artistic & cultural programs locally and globally.

our vision is to use the arts to help develop stronger communities.

We use art in its many forms    (Creative writing, dance, film/video, music, theatre, visual arts, performing arts, spoken word, environmental arts, multimedia arts, among others) as a powerful tool to benefit and contribute towards sociocultural and socioeconomic development of communities.