Senior Staff
The organization’s core leadership team includes nationally recognized experts holding advanced degrees in law (JD), visual arts and painting (MFA), music performance and teaching (MA and PhD), Sociology (PhD), Accounting (MBA), and theology and youth development (MDiv). Collectively, they possess more than seventy-five years of experience in youth and community development, education, music, film, and art; and four of them have taught as professors at undergraduate and graduate schools. Teaching artists all hold bachelors degrees or higher in their respective fields.
Jeremy Del Rio, Esq.
Executive Director
Sam Wisneski, MFA
Creative Director
Kekoa
Sr. Project Manager
Board of Directors
Walter Sotelo, Chair & Co-Founder
President, Ideanuts
Frederick Towles, Treasurer
President, The Towles Group
Mill Harris
Vice President, Wells Fargo
Paul Coty, Co-Founder
Regional Director, Young Life Jeremy Del Rio, Co-Founder
Executive Director
Carlos Ortiz
Consultant, SJCSSchools We Serve
New York City has 1,800 public schools citywide. We have served 200 of them in 25 school districts and 40 of 51 Council Districts.
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Volunteers
Your time is valuable. You volunteer because you have something beautiful to offer the world around you. You want to make a difference.
That’s why we match our volunteers to opportunities where you’ll add the most value. We promise to never give you busy work.
Our volunteers empower students to create masterpiece lives as they beautify the world around them. Our collaborative teams embrace student-led public art as a vehicle for awareness, change, and wrap-around supports necessary for all NYC students and schools to thrive — without exception or condition.
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