The Heritage Arts Institute engages students in majority Black schools in robust history and culture instruction that centers their stories, their values and their people through music, visual arts, dance and other arts of the African Diaspora and Africa. Our goal is to achieve racial equity in music and arts education through culturally responsive pedagogy for Afro-descendant. Children.
The Heritage Arts Institute is a program that engages historically marginalized Afro-Descendant young people in robust Black music, performing arts and visual arts education that centers their stories, their values and their people through cultural traditions of African Diaspora and Africa. Our goal is to achieve racial equity in music and arts education by employing culturally responsive pedagogy for Afro-descendant students. This is a program of Themba Arts and Culture, Inc, based on the ethnomusicological research on culturally responsive pedagogical music/arts education models in Ghana, India, Botswana, South Africa, African America and Bahia Brazil.

The Heritage Arts Institute is the first of its kind in the United States, and aims to work with partner schools and after school programs to engage Afro-descendant students in culture-bearer led artist residencies, as well as cultural arts workshops for African American communities.