RARE. GRITTY. BRILLIANT.

World Arts Focus is a non-profit organization that brings artists and communities together to study the arts, experience performances, and encourage the preservation of cultural performance traditions. Joe's Movement Emporium is our studio facility. We serve over 30,000 adults and children annually through movement classes and arts education, workshops, rehearsal space, community activities, and special events.

We accomplish our mission by:

• maintaining a thriving and culturally diverse arts center dedicated to the study and preservation of performing arts traditions from around the world.
• addressing the lack of children's recreations and education activities, family programming, and community revitalization through community based multicultural arts programming management.
• supporting group and individual artists through shared resources, administration, management and creativity.

Joe's Movement Emporium serves residents of neighborhoods in Prince George's County, MD and sections of northeastern Washington, DC. Half of Joe's participants and audience members live in the Gateway communities of Mt. Rainier, Brentwood, North Brentwood, and Hyattsville, MD.       

• Median Income is $35,920 or 76% of the metro area average.
• Population is 67% African American, 18% Latino, and 12% white.
• 80% of Gaeway area residenrs are non-white, including immigrants.
• Less than 30% of local residents own their own homes.
• 85% of elementary school students participate in school lunch programs.
• Mt. Rainier's population is 8500. 27% are children under age 18.

Using the arts as a tool for building communities, Joe's works to provide socisal opportunities and teach life skills to local youth as well as promote family involvement in neighborhood restoration.