NPF Urban Arts Initiative

 
A group of 5 students is listening to a teaching artist discussing an artwork comprised of painted stuffed animals glued to a canvas.

Middle school students visiting the Shed Gallery during a tour of the Outdoor Museum

A young girl stands and watches Noah speak to a young boy sitting at a table filled with art materials. Noah is bent over the table focused on a piece of artwork on the table. An older woman with a child in her lap sits next to Noah and watches.

Noah and students during an art class at the Watts Towers Art Center

 

NPF Urban Arts Initiative

The Noah Purifoy Foundation provides middle school students and classroom teachers a cross-disciplinary arts curriculum about African-American artist and sculptor Noah Purifoy (1917-2004.) The Foundation's artists and board members, who were Noah's friends and colleagues, have developed a detailed, standards-based interactive curriculum about Noah's life, work and the Outdoor Desert Museum of Assemblage Sculpture in Joshua Tree, CA. In 2023 we partnered with Side Street Projects, another community based organization focusing on “the needs of artists, youth and the community at large” to provide coordination and teaching artists for in-class and field trip activities.

View The Urban Arts Initiative - Noah Purifoy Assemblage Art Program, by Side Street Projects, 2025 here!

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If you are interested in incorporating our Noah Purifoy Curriculum into your learning program, please submit a request below.

 

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