Organizations Filed Purposes:
CAWs mission is to improve the life of New York City youth through the visual and multimedia arts. CAW serves thousands of young people each year, primarily in Upper Manhattan, through in-school and out-of-school-time classes,(continued on Schedule O)
The Covid-19 epidemic caused Creative Art Works (CAW) to completely redesign and redeploy its Public Art Youth Employment program in order to sustain creative workforce development opportunities for NYC youth, being unable to work in person and in the face of the threatened cancelation of the NYC Summer Youth Employment and Learn to Work programs. CAW successfully offered more than 100 apprenticeships in the digital arts with a social justice focus in FY20, and 7 more through the creation of a work of large-scale public art. Youth Apprentices (YAs) from the five boroughs of NYC, aged 14-24, were given part-time jobs after-school and/or during the summer. Prior to the Covid closures, standout alumni from prior programs were re-engaged to create a mural for the Henry Street Settlement. (Continue to Schedule O - 06a. General Explanation attachment)
CAWs Out-of-School-Time (OST) arts programs provide K-12 students with enriching, educational activities outside of the regular school day. CAW served over 720 participants with 27 OST programs in collaboration with 15 partners during the 2019-2020 academic year. Programs were conducted in after-school settings and on Saturdays, in NYC public schools, community and cultural centers, and ACSs foster care facility. Programs ran for a range of 8-14 weeks and often in consecutive semesters, providing safe and engaging educational environments for creative self-expression. In mid-March, in-person programs were suspended due to the pandemic, and further offerings were quickly made available and conducted online. All programs provided professional teaching artists imparting artistic and social-emotional skills through a wide variety of art and digital media, including but not limited to mixed media,(Continue to Schedule O - 06b. General explanation attachment)
Creative Art Works In-School arts programs served nearly 800 students through 12 different programs during the 2019-2020 academic year. Arts integration programs included anatomy and physiology, earth sciences, media literacy, and the humanities, and all but one pivoted to online instruction, whether synchronous or asynchronous, when schools closed due to Covid. One humanities aligned-program and one newly launched arts education program in drawing and painting were truncated in March. Specialized curricula included lessons tailored for Emerging Bilingual Students, English Language Learners, and honors students on a HS medical track. In each case, CAWs professional teaching artists collaborated with school teaching staff and administrators to align lesson plans with the core curriculum, showing demonstrable impacts on academic behaviors and performance. (Continue to Schedule O - 06c. General explanation attachment)
Executives Listed on Filing
Total Salary includes financial earnings, benefits, and all related organization earnings listed on tax filing
| Name | Title | Hours Per Week | Total Salary |
|---|
| Brian Ricklin | EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR AND CEO | 40 | $121,966 |
| Richard E Morris | BOARD MEMBER | 0 | $0 |
| Rick Wise | BOARD MEMBER | 0 | $0 |
| Marcos Santiago | BOARD MEMBER | 0 | $0 |
| Julia Sanabria | SECRETARY | 0 | $0 |
| Andrew Stern | BOARD MEMBER | 0 | $0 |
| Mark Evans | BOARD MEMBER | 0 | $0 |
| Steven Soutendijk | BOARD MEMBER | 0 | $0 |
| Neil Goldmacher | BOARD MEMBER | 0 | $0 |
| Mosely Chaszar | BOARD MEMBER | 0 | $0 |
| Eric Withrow | TREASURER | 0 | $0 |
| Andrew Levin | CHAIRMAN & PRESIDENT | 0 | $0 |
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