Outreach Center clients and UL Industrial Design students work together to create artistic functional furniture from salvaged hurricane debris, as part of reNEW, the Outreach Center's Noble Enterprise Workshop, one of the Center's many life skills enrichment workshops. Some of the items created in this workshop have been added the Center's permanent collection housed in the new Outreach Center art gallery.

For more than four years the Outreach Center has proudly and creatively collaborated with ULL's School of Architecture/Building Institute and the Department of Visual Arts on service learning projects which have transformed our campus into a place reflecting dignity and hope, while providing life enrichment for the Center’s clients as they rebuild their lives from poverty, homelessness, and substance addiction.

The projects bring together UL students and Outreach Center clients to create creative and functional designs of art, furniture, and architecture, positively impacting not only the students and clients but the actual physical space the Center occupies. Several permanent works of public art have been created and installed, along with a professional gallery space.

These improvements have sparked an overall neighborhood revitalization. Much of the work is created with discarded materials that have been beautifully recycled, paralleling the Center’s work with people in need. Through the Center’s ongoing life enrichment workshops and service learning projects, art will continue to play a role in bringing new hope to lives once shattered.

UL Arts in Education students work with Outreach Center clients and volunteers to design and install a mosaic mural along the side of the Center's Well Day Shelter.

Click here to learn more about our partnership with the ULL Building Institute.

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