Celestial Ministries School of Fine Arts: Living the dream through the arts

Celestial Ministries

Celestial Ministries School of Fine Arts offers the gift of music and dance to children with incarcerated loved ones in the North Lawndale community. The school provides music theory, dance, and hands-on musical instruction available in individual and group lessons. The School of Fine Arts currently has classes available at Lawndale Community Church, Catalyst Charter School, and the Marcy-Newberry Center. Individual lessons are set up by individual instructors.

Jefferson Awards Honoree:

Stanley Ratliff with Barack Obama

Celestial Ministries Co-founder Stanley Ratliff and Senator Barack Obama in Washington D.C. for the presentation of the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Award for Outstanding Public Service. 

March On!

Our students march in the annual Bud Billiken parade on the Southside of Chicago.