CITYarts, Inc. is a nonprofit public arts and education organization, focusing on creating murals and mosaics with youth and professional artists.

Through this creative process, CITYarts empowers, educates, and connects youth and children locally and around the world to become active participants in realizing their potential and transforming communities.

[4] CITYarts' projects are created under five programs: Young Minds Build Bridges, Community Identity, Global HeARTWarming, Kids for Justice, and Windows of Opportunity.

These projects are produced and created in under-served communities in the five boroughs of New York City, with the exception of Young Minds Build Bridges, which extends internationally.

CITYarts includes a broad constituency of participants in order to expose youth to a wide range of perspectives, experiences, and backgrounds.

CITYarts executes its programs through the youth-adult partnership model, in which young people are treated as responsible individuals with the capacity to meet challenges and make decisions.

Through this creative process, CITYarts empowers, educates, and connects youth and children locally and around the world to become active participants in realizing their potential and transforming communities.

The wall represents Pieces for Peace and it really is what this city, in fact this whole world, needs desperately at present; protection of its forests and glaciers, of its hundreds of nations and their thousands of cultures and faith.

Under the direction of two artists, Yoav Weiss (Jewish) and Salma Shehade (Arab), 50 after-school workshops took place in Tel Aviv-Yafo, at the Arab-Hebrew Theatre of Yafo, the Peres Center for Peace, and other locations.

"[22] The mosaic, located in such an emotionally-charged and historically significant city, serves to reflect on Berlin's "complex and often tragic past while looking forward into a future of peace envisioned by today's generation of European youth.

As stated on the CITYarts website, this project "was designed to build bridges of international understanding by bringing together American youth and their peers from around the world to create drawings, paintings, and poems.

Some exhibition venues include, but are not limited to: The Community Identity program encourages participating youth and adults to examine who they are and what their neighborhood should look like.

Youth, families, and community members collaborate on the creation of permanent murals and mosaics in their neighborhoods led by professional artists.

The 3-year project endeavored to "celebrate the unique community identity of Harlem where Hamilton lived, and inspire youths to follow in his footsteps.

Workshops and mural projects inspire youth to encourage change in their families and community, impacting a difference on a global level.

"[35] The Windows of Opportunity program notably employs artist Bernard Wiggins, who originally became involved with CITYarts as a youth participant on a mural project when he was twelve years old in 1995.

Bob Trentlyon, a public member of the Waterfront, Parks and Environment committee expressed dismay that CITYarts was "leaving out the community.

"[36] Additionally, community members felt insulted by Ben-Haim's claim, on a flier she distributed, that Clement Clarke Moore Park "feels abandoned.