Mission
To seed children's imagination, cultivate their creativity, and grow mutual empathy through the arts for a more prosperous, sustainable, and peaceful future.
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Vision
To democratize creativity for the Artificial Intelligence Revolution and develop mutual empathy for
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What We Do
ICAF inspires students to boldly step beyond the boundaries set before them by envisioning
a creative-empathic world where diversity and differences enhance the fractal of human discovery.
An innovative school art program that fosters creativity
and can help end the obesity epidemic.
A transformative experience to offset Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)
and disrupt the intergenerational transmission of trauma and hatred.
Curated at business headquarters to kindle the “inner child” for
collaborative innovation and creative teamwork.
An ad-free quarterly to inspire learners of all ages
and develop global competencies.
International Child Art Foundation Overview
Human Security
Sixteen students limn their perspectives about the United Nations Human Security for All Campaign.
SHU-YEN (COCO) Yeh, 14
“Taiwan is quite fair in gender equality, and women are able to enjoy equal education and working opportunities. Long ago, our female ancestors made fine needlework to help the family. Those with exquisite work would earn special tattoos on their hands, which symbolize their outstanding craftsmanship and social status...”
SHU-YEN (COCO) Yeh, 14
“Taiwan is quite fair in gender equality, and women are able to enjoy equal education and working opportunities. Long ago, our female ancestors made fine needlework to help the family. Those with exquisite work would earn special tattoos on their hands, which symbolize their outstanding craftsmanship and social status...”
TABATHA Araneo, 12
“My work represents the inequality of access to resources in the world. I sought to reflect how a few have access to much and how many have access to nothing. At the same time, for those few, the fact of being privileged by an unjust social system represents a latent threat, which is represented by the hands that lurk from the confines of the work.”
TABATHA Araneo, 12
“My work represents the inequality of access to resources in the world. I sought to reflect how a few have access to much and how many have access to nothing. At the same time, for those few, the fact of being privileged by an unjust social system represents a latent threat, which is represented by the hands that lurk from the confines of the work.”
JACK Zhu, 16
“Today's world is an insecure place, especially in poverty-striken and war-torn areas. My artwork highlights UN peacekeepers helping provide human security in the Darfur region to ensure that the children grow up in a secure environment, and can as a result become education to better themselves.”
JACK Zhu, 16
“Today's world is an insecure place, especially in poverty-striken and war-torn areas. My artwork highlights UN peacekeepers helping provide human security in the Darfur region to ensure that the children grow up in a secure environment, and can as a result become education to better themselves.”
LEYLI Musayeva, 10
“You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force. I would like to see our world full of kindness because it can save the world”
LEYLI Musayeva, 10
“You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force. I would like to see our world full of kindness because it can save the world”
World Children's Festival