Created in 1959 and currently located in a beautiful house in the heart of the historic Fruit Belt district, Locust Street is a local institution founded on principles of valuing confidence and treating one another with love. Under the pretty tree out front you’ll find a brick building where instructors and students across different departments thrive together: working in a computer animation lab open to all, a painting environment, and spaces for sculpting with clay. Students are inspired to “build self-confidence as they work towards their own goals at their own pace, building valuable skills both as artists and as people. It’s also a space where our students will receive enthusiastic praise and encouragement that they might not always find in their everyday lives.”

Locust Street is a proud part of the Community First Alliance, a group working to return economic power to the people of East Buffalo with land trusts and other creative uses of land. Donate here.

Watch this video to get a better idea of the important work Locust Street Art is doing in this community: https://vimeo.com/220351443