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Causes: Art Museums, Arts & Culture
Mission: To educate, produce, market and celebrate the arts, as well as act as a service to the community, in order to provide an enriching environment.
Programs: Artztogoartztogo is a traveling arts program that focuses on serving the needs of clark county, by providing arts education, dance, movement, music, theater, arts integration, visual arts enrichment, and self-esteem development. It is a creativity learning environment, to enhance cultural awareness, spiritual growth, and educational intensity. Artztogo buses are equipped with art supplies, books, backpacks artists/educators in an environment decorated as an art gallery museum. Artztogo is produced by city of the world,inc. (non-profit 501-c3)artztogo parkcurrently our buses go to 4 parks in clark county, las vegas area, during the school year, 3 saturdays a month. From 11am-1pm. This program is free and open to all ages. The program also runs during the summer for three days a week and provides a breakfast meal for the children. Lorenzi park (at washington and rancho)freedom park (at washington and mojave)myron leavitt park (at st louis and eastern)mirabelli community park (at hargrove)artztogo mobile gallery the artztogo bus is a rolling art bus equipped with many art supplies, books, projects and a qualified art teacher. The bus is often scheduled as an art class fieldtrip to many local area schools and events. The bus is driven to your specified location and is unloaded. The kids then can make art at the hands on activates tables and also visit the mobile art gallery bus to enjoy the talents of many local artists. Total expenses to operate the artztogo school and park program in 2014- $47,950 city of the world, inc gallery, school & event housecity of the world gallery is located at 1229 s. Casino center blvd, in the heart of the 18b arts district. The gallery is a cooperative non-profit gallery that reaches out to many experienced and emerging local artists by providing a venue that they can grow, develop and show their works to the public. The gallery director, roz knight is and advocate for the arts and is always on the hunt for avenues to promote the arts and artists in las vegas. This gallery has served as a starting career point for many artists that are now well known in the las vegas art community. In 2014 the gallery had regular scheduled meetings to promote creativity and where artists could come together to learn from and inspire one another.