Joshua M Lutz Educator and Student
At 12 years of age Joshua Lutz caught the volunteering bug in a non-denominational church, volunteering in a nursery. He then played drums, bass and guitar in the church band with his dad, who played trumpet and toured with the Supreme’s and Dionne Warwick. Joshua has since taught music, art, design and audio engineering for over 25 years in dozens of facilities including Schools, Hospitals, Retirement Communities, DJJ Homes, Prisons, Park Districts, YMCA’s, Community Houses, and more. Today, Joshua served on the NYQPL board, ran the School Of Visual & Audio Design (SOVAD), as well as his non-profit music outreach initiative Random Acts Of Songs (RAOS).
A HISTORY OF PHILANTHROPY
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Free Audio Engineering Classes
JML Recording Studios and The Nutley School Of Music (NSOM) teamed up to bring a number of free local community music recording seminars and giveaways to the community. Here we see Joshua Lutz with a group of budding audio engineers, three of which were the winners of a new guitar, new keyboard and free studio time at JML Recording Studios.
Mentorship Outreach
All NYC schools and in-person classes were decimated by the pandemic so during Covid, our SOVAD school closed and Josh moved away. During this time, JML has been mentoring a handful of up-and-coming artists in the NYC area as seen here in Jay-Z's Roc Nation program at LIU.
SOVAD
On May 11th of 2019 Joshua Lutz partnered with Mosaic Church in Sunnyside Queens and opened the first ever School Of Visual and Audio Design campus in NYC, teaching vocational after school programs in graphic design and audio engineering.
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Random Acts Of Songs
After 15 years of providing hundreds of inter-generational music and art programs to seniors and children across the USA, Joshua Lutz founded the not for profit organization "Random Acts Of Songs" to centralize these initiatives and recruit other creative volunteers.
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FHTV
Joshua Lutz created the not for profit TV show "FHTV" which aired over 100 episodes from 2010-2016 and was featured on NY1 for innovation in technology for NYC residents. The YouTube channel of these videos now has over 1 million views to date and we still get letters expressing gratitude for the in-chair exercise videos and health talks we hosted over the years!
CBH
Once Joshua's FHTV Videos topped one million views, many other communities reached seeking similar music education programs, one of which was Comprehensive Behavioral Health in NJ.
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Computer Lounge for Seniors in Queens
Joshua Lutz designed and opened a state of the art Sports Lounge for seniors in Flushing Queens funded by a NY Grant. The Computer Lounge opened in February that year where Joshua eventually taught over 1000 computer classes which included certifications and graduation ceremonies, helping hundreds of Seniors to connect online. This was also featured on NY1.
Rock Band Made up of Seniors... and Joshua!
Joshua formed a rock band with a group of talented seniors Flushing, Queens, NYC. Joshua rehearsed them, recorded an album with them, purchased a tour bus with grant money and hit the road with the band the summer of 2014. They toured greater New York, playing in senior centers all over the east coast and sold over 1000 CD's to raise money for United Adult Ministries.
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Urban Art Beat
Joshua Lutz and a group of local musicians performed a series of teen outreach music events with the Urban Art Beat Organization in the Bronx, NY to teach them about songwriting, positive mental outlook and poetry writing. This organization still thrives in the heart of NYC and continues to make a huge impact on our great city.
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Children's Village Orphanage
Joshua Lutz volunteered extensively at the Children's Village in Dobbsferry NY with high-risk incarcerated teens who had been severely abused and in turn abused others. His art programs extended from in-house graphic design programs to a mobile computer charter bus that housed 15 computers with Photoshop & Illustrator.
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MOSA
Partnering with Hush Tours and founding artist Meres Cohen of 5 Pointz Museum (Now MOSA in the Bowery of Manhattan), the three of us brought over 500 art programs to dozens of detention centers throughout Bronx, Manhattan and Brooklyn. After the whitewashing and illegal demolition of the world-famous 5 Pointz Museum, Mere's and the Logic crew have re-built an incredible new Street Art Museum on 189 Bowery.
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Department Of Juvenile Justice
Partnering with world famous hip hop tour company "Hush Tours" in NYC, Joshua Lutz went into the most secure and dangerous DJJ facilities in the throughout NYC to teach art and graphics design to thousands of incarcerated teens, many of which had multiple homicide convictions or worse.
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Mercy Home for Children
Joshua Lutz taught in many group homes, boys homes and girls homes throughout NYC during this period, one of which was staple of his volunteering endeavors. Mercy Home for Children became a conduit for Joshua to teach art and design classes to hundreds of wayward and abused children throughout their locations in Brooklyn, NY.
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ORGANIZATIONS WE'VE WORKED WITH
