The Arts Initiative

The Arts Initiative is an artist-led foundational hub for premier risk-taking visual art, performance, and creative writing initiatives that shift culture and affect social change, founded by interdisciplinary artist and author Anna Goodman Herrick, 

The Arts Initiative transforms community by creating engaging, interactive arts and creative writing programs that increase human connection, support economic stability, and improve mental health.

The Arts Initiative eliminates financial barriers for artists and creative writers of all disciplines, ages, and backgrounds, while providing transformative community arts and writing programming, in person and online nationally.


Rapid response and long-term solutions rooted in creativity as a tool for thriving and transformation:

When marginalized communities come under attack, we respond quickly with creative advocacy and corresponding direct actions that meet tangible emergency needs, always in collaboration and solidarity with these communities.  

Alongside rapid response, we invest in the longterm. We create arts programming, new works, and creative writing programs that shift culture.