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ZCAF is training a new generation of carpenters through its Mobile Woodshop (MWS). As an experiential classroom on wheels, the MWS is helping to disrupt poverty by offering carpentry training for long term economic stability. Preparation for apprenticeships in the building trades is a major goal. Read more about the program HERE.
ZCAF is training a new generation of carpenters through its Mobile Woodshop (MWS). As an experiential classroom on wheels, the MWS is helping to disrupt poverty by offering carpentry training for long term economic stability. Preparation for apprenticeships in the building trades is a major goal. Read more about the program HERE.
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NBC Universal Grants ZCAF's PACT a $25,000 Community Impact Award!
We are proud to announce that Zenith Community Arts Foundation (ZCAF) is a winner of The Comcast NBCUniversal Foundation’s 2024 Local Impact Grants Challenge. The Comcast NBCUniversal Foundation is granting $2.5 million this year to non-profits that are strengthening our communities.
By winning this competitive grant, we hope to continue strengthening the DC community. Grant programs like this help us achieve our mission to bring ZCAF’s innovative Mobile Woodshop with professional carpenters, tools, and materials to community sites in Washington DC, where, as in so many areas, wood shops have closed.
With this newly won grant, Zenith Community Arts Foundation will be able to train a new generation of carpenters and woodworkers to enter the building trades, where, according to the National Association of Home Builders, carpentry is the most endangered career in the building industry.
ZCAF’s exhibition ‘The Marvel of Trees’ showcases parts of a traveling exhibition, funded by Events DC, and accompanied by original artworks using tree themes to celebrate DC’s leafy canopy. Included in this exhibition are sculptures, paintings, and mixed media.
On view now through September 14th at Zenith Gallery in Washington, DC.
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Art Builds Community
The Zenith Community Arts Foundation (ZCAF) serves the Greater Washington, DC area through its commitment to arts advocacy, arts education, and public art. With an emphasis on our local community, ZCAF achieves our goals by fostering alliances between area artists, businesses, other non-profits, and government agencies.
Arts
Education
ZCAF's School’s Out Arts Program (SOAP) and Hands On Workshop (HOW) reinforces classroom teaching within the context of a project-based arts education program
Environmental Stewardship
ZCAF's Mobile Woodshop engages area students in woodcraft projects that highlight the value of our urban forests to the city, local economy, and the environment.
Social
Responsibility
ZCAF's social justice-oriented exhibits, such as "Play, Protection, or Peril," raise public awareness of the social issues facing the Washington, DC community
Community
Giving
ZCAF is proud to support community giving initiatives, including the Food Glorious Food Program, through which ZCAF launched its Sustainable and Scrumptious Program.
Ballou STAY Pre-Apprenticeship Program
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