Freedom Arts & Education Center: empowering young people to become highly creative, literate, passionate, independent thinkers. Creating artistic, academic, & advancement opportunities to feed, heal, & teach the youth of STL. Freedom Arts & Education Center creates artistic, academic, and advancement opportunities to feed, heal, and teach the youth of St. Louis. By removing systemic barriers and building resourced spaces, Black and Brown youth realize their own power to become highly creative, literate, passionate, independent thinkers. Since 2012, we have supported youth through accessible community arts programs, decolonized educational resources, enriching multidiscipline summer programs, in-school advocacy, and job opportunities.