A Home for Creative Healing

La House builds creative infrastructure — bringing together youth, artists, and healers to transform spaces into studios, galleries, and stages for collective healing through creative practice.

“We exist to build spaces where creativity becomes a practice of healing and worldmaking — supporting people to return to themselves, reconnect to each other, and imagine new futures into being.”

1. Creative Infrastructure

We transform underutilized spaces into studios, labs, and galleries with real, professional tools and materials: printing, drawing, sewing, digital media, sound, and more. More than just showing up to a program, our young people help design and build the creative infrastructure of their own city.

2. Hood Futurism & Self-Determination

We believe the future of our neighborhoods should be designed by the people who live here. Through art-making, storytelling, and collaborative projects, youth practice imagining and prototyping new futures where they have power, safety, and belonging.

3. Community, Care, and Connection

Everything we do is rooted in community: circles, check-ins, collaborative projects, and shared leadership. La House is a place to meet mentors, build friendships, process what’s real, and feel connected to something bigger than yourself.

We work in and with the neighborhoods that are usually underfunded and overlooked, turning classrooms, cafés, and community spaces into creative infrastructure: studios, zine labs, music corners, print shops, and gathering spaces.

Through access to tools, materials, mentorship, and community, we support young people in Lawrence to tell their own stories, build creative skills, and imagine futures that center their lives, cultures, and joy.

Our work is about self-determination through creativity—where art isn’t just a class, but a way to heal, organize, and design the worlds we want to live in.