JOHN CLOUD KAISER

Project Facilitator

John Cloud Kaiser is an artist, an art-educator, a researcher, and an administrator. Over the past 10 years He has been the Executive Director of a small nonprofit that he created, Free Style Arts Association, which invents, enacts, and researches new, more inclusive, approaches to Community Based Art and Art Education.

Kaiser's thesis for his Masters Degree in Art Education at NYU dealt with how to make arts education programs more successful by more creatively reaching out to community members to involve them in art-making. Through his participatory public sculptures where he gets people walking down the street to spontaneously help build a bit of a giant art piece, he educates and advocates art as a language we can all share. He has organized and received grants for projects at P.S.1 MoMA, the Scope Art Fair, The Queens Museum of Art, The Mayor’s Awards for Arts and Culture, The New York Parks Department, The NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, The Brooklyn Arts Council, and many others, with projects featured in the New York Times, NY Post, and Daily News.

Kaiser has administered and taught over 600 days of artist residencies at NYC and NJ public schools through Free Style Arts, Arts Horizons, Brooklyn Arts Council, Parents as Arts Partners, and the NJ A.I.E. Grant. He also founded a multi-venue after-school program that connected the police community program in Williamsburg with many local volunteering art galleries that continues to grow.