Piece by Piece

Piece by Piece provides free mosaic art workshops that empower Angelenos who have faced homelessness or poverty to rebuild their lives. In a safe community and welcoming environment participants are supported by trauma-informed instructors. Through hands-on artmaking, they develop both creative and life skills that foster healing, confidence, and resilience. Many go on to earn income through our Social Enterprise, gaining access to meaningful work that helps them achieve lasting stability and self-sufficiency, opportunities often out of reach.

Piece by Piece will engage the diverse communities of South Gate to design, manufacture, and install a mosaic mural reflective of local cultural identifies on the exterior wall of a new Community Center. The Center opens as part of a major facility renovation that will house LA Promise Fund's Westbrook Academy (Middle-High School). Funding will support our instructors and Certified artists (formerly homeless and/or living in poverty) leading students and their families in the creation of a mural that will also build enduring community pride.

Piece by Piece offers free mosaic art classes to individuals experiencing homelessness or economic insecurity in South LA and Skid Row. Those participants that go through the free certification program qualify to earn income through creating mosaic art. This grant will support training and provide training and resources to help participants avoid the benefits cliff many face when they choose to better themselves working in the arts.

Artists and Arts Orgs provide skills training to recently homeless persons to provide labor for large-scale mosaic art installation