Harlem Community Art Center

It became a countrywide exemplar for others, notably the South Side Community Art Center in Chicago.

[6] In its first 16 months, 70,592 people attended Harlem Community Art Center activities[5] and more than 1,500 took part in day or evening classes in drawing, painting, sculpture, printmaking, and design.

[3] Artists who taught or studied at the center include Charles Alston, Henry Bannarn, Romare Bearden, Selma Burke, Ernest Crichlow, Aaron Douglas, Elton Fax, Sargent Johnson, William Henry Johnson, Langston Hughes, Ronald Joseph, Robert Blackburn, Jacob Lawrence, Norman Lewis, Claude McKay, James Lesene Wells and Richard Wright.

Students ranged from established Harlem artists to children from New York psychiatric hospitals who benefitted from creative activities.

[2] Media related to Harlem Community Art Center at Wikimedia Commons This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the Works Progress Administration.

Poster for the Harlem Community Art Center (1938)
Students at the Harlem Community Art Center (January 1, 1938)
Henry Bannarn , an instructor at the Harlem Community Art Center (1937)
Two children at the Harlem Community Art Center in 1939
Holger Cahill , national director of the Federal Art Project (FAP), speaking at the Harlem Community Art Center (October 24, 1938)