Two hurricanes and a federal grant that was canceled on short notice has left us with a shortfall for the year. We have a community member who is matching all donations up to $15K through Labor Day via a fundraiser. Learn about this and other ways to help here: secure.qgiv.com/event/nomad2...

You are such an important part of the journey, and we want to build strong lines of communication with you beyond the scope of social media, so we encourage you to follow us here on Bluesky AND fly over to our website to make sure we're connected directly:

nomadstudio.org/stay-connected

NOMAD activates spaces where change and uncertainty exist. Most of our work is with children who are experiencing uncomfortable life situations. Some of them have been incarcerated or taken from their homes, and they feel deeply unsettled.

In these changing and uncertain times, it’s understandable if you feel a bit off balance. We want you to know that NOMADstudio is here for you, and that you are going to hear more from us this year.

Founded in 2013 with a mission of “art for ALL,” NOMADstudio—the Neighborhood Oriented Mobile Art + Design Studio—engages people in acts of creative expression in places & spaces where there is often little or no access to arts programming.

Our longest running outreach initiative, Next Stop Studio, began in 2015 with a pop-up visit to a group children’s home. It soon expanded to include visits to places like domestic violence shelters, residential psychiatric treatment facilities, and homeless shelters for families with children.

In May 2018 we visited a regional juvenile detention center and learned that youth detained there had year-round school but the state of Florida doesn’t consider the arts an essential part of their education, so they go without. We launched Justice Studio as an after school program there that fall.

This is how it all got started, a group of like-minded artists loading an art bus up with supplies and rolling out—taking it to the streets to facilitate community bus painting experiences throughout our region.

In 2022, our Studio on the Block program was selected for inclusion in the University of Florida Center for Arts in Medicine’s Arts and Creative Placemaking Repository as a “Promising Practices Case Study” to facilitate field-wide learning and encourage similar practices across the country.

At NOMADstudio we put creativity in motion to fuel connections and nurture communities. We do this by mobilizing artists, activating shared spaces, and celebrating creativity as an essential part of human wellbeing.