Born on the dance floor. Built for the world.
It started in Bushwick.
In 2007, House of Yes opened its doors around circus, aerial, drag, immersive performance and electronic music. It became Brooklyn's home for radical joy, consent culture and collective imagination.
Art of Yes carries that spirit beyond the club. We take the artists who built New York's nightlife and underground seriously: as workers, as neighbors, and as the cultural infrastructure this city runs on.
Artists are not a luxury. They are infrastructure.
We build communities of forward-thinking creatives to facilitate unique collaborations and create opportunities where artists and their multidisciplinary ideas are given a YES to make the world a better place.
Three things we refuse to separate.
Equity in the DNA
Built in from day one, not retrofitted. Our board and programs reflect the queer, neurodivergent, BIPOC and immigrant artists we serve.
Artists get paid
Artistic vitality and economic survival are the same problem. Every program moves money, work and connections toward artists.
Art changes things
We don't graft messaging onto art. We invest in the artists already living the change and let the work do what art has always done.
Five global frameworks agree with us.
The most rigorous measures of human progress name artists twice: as builders of a better world, and as people who deserve to live in it.