“The Cleo Parker Robinson Center for the Healing Arts is a legacy project that will have impact for at least the next 100 years if the current Historic Shorter AME Church built in 1925 is any standard of measure. This facility will amplify our ability to serve as a gathering space where communities and creatives come to exchange ideas and inspire us through the artwork.  We are building room to grow our rigorous CPRD Academy Program and widen the avenue to access the arts. The new state-of-the-art production and performance facility will be an accessible incubator for the several dozen organizations who lease it. Our Advocacy and Wellness programs are anchored in legacy and traditions built by the elders of Shorter AME Church. The pandemic underscored the links between the arts, movement, community, and health advocacy; our expanded hub continues this critical mission.”