Paint Love brings extraordinary arts programming that empowers youth and strengthens communities. Since 2014, they have served more than 18,000 young people, working with more than 100 schools and youth-serving nonprofit partners in the Metro-Atlanta area, hundreds of artists of all kinds, and thousands of volunteers. Art is the vehicle, but the soul of their work is showing young people that their voice matters, their ideas are important, and their actions make a difference in changing the world. Paint Love envisions a world where all youth have access to creative opportunities and resources that allow them to imagine and create a future not limited by adverse experiences.
“I give my time to Paint Love because art and the act of creating art have always been my guide through hard or traumatic times in my life. I searched for a long time for an organization to volunteer with that provides art programs with the same purpose for children living in poverty or experiencing trauma in their own lives," says Amy Clarke, Brookhaven resident, Program Director at the CF Foundation and Vice-chair of Paint Love’s Board of Directors. "Paint Love's programs bring extraordinary, trauma-informed arts projects and trained staff and volunteers to youth service providers and schools. I'm very lucky and thankful to be able to serve as a board member of Paint Love, which impacts over 5,000 children and youth per year. Participants don't have to be artists to feel that positive impact, it truly is the act of creating in safe spaces with highly trained facilitators that brings about healing in many forms.”
