Note from the Executive Director: March 2024

Our Mission Statements & our DEI Statements are living breathing reflections of the current state of the minds and hearts of the active collective’s input, and reflect and speak to what we experience in the world as humans, artists, educators, organizers and culture bearers.

We hope our words help tell the story of how we as a collaborative currently understand the intention of Storyspace Arts and its project and programs.

We welcome you to become a part of it. Your story matters.

Thank you for your support.

Storyspace Arts DEI Statement:

Be you. Listen. Land. Share. Hate has no home here. Kindness rules.

We are trans, non-binary, Black, women, femmes, immigrants, single parents, queer.

Middle aged, teens, young adults, elders. We are allies.

We are a community. We are creatives.

Together, we make ourselves known. Together, we know ourselves better. Together, we take up space with our stories. Together, we can be free.

Katie Elevitch  
Story Space Arts Founder & Director

Katie Elevitch is a queer feminist artist, musician, curator, educator, single parent, and the Founder & Director of StorySpace Arts, (formerly known as 95 1/2 Main Arts). Katie founded StorySpace Arts with the intention that communities are more sustainable, just, equitable, loving and healthy when we provide inter-generational safer spaces, programs, and opportunities for artists and creatives to help amplify their voices and stories.

To learn more about Katie, her Arts and Business Endeavors, please visit: (***)

Also a creativity coach, and event producer, Katie teaches music, storytelling, performance poetry, creative expression and songwriting classes and workshops to kids and adults in the lower Hudson Valley, with an emphasis on girls, women, and the LGBTQ community.

A graduate of Barnard College, Columbia University with a B.A. in Women's Studies/Music, Elevitch has also studied music, writing, theater and performance at Mannes College of Music, The New School, and NYU. She is a certified 200 hour yoga instructor, with over 20 years of meditation study and practice.

In addition to her extensive arts education, Elevitch is also a non-profit and for-profit finance management specialist, administrator and consultant, with over 15 years working for small arts related businesses.

A beautiful Video Montage by the Nerdy Duo, showing just some of the incredible creative collaborations, exhibits, community events and workshops of StorySpace Arts from 2017-2018.