Effective period / Period of releases: 1972 - 2008

Members: Oliver Lake, Lester Bowie, Alex Blake (2), Joseph Bowie, Marty Ehrlich, Dominique Gaumont, Hamiet Bluiett, John Lindberg, James Emery, Luther Thomas, Abdella Ya Kum, Harold Pudgay Atterbury, Eric Foreman, Charles Bobo Shaw, Baikida Carroll, Marvin Horne, Abdul Wadud, Julius Hemphill, Carol Marshall, Vincent Terrell, Alan Suits, Victor Reef, Abdallah Yakub, Butch Smith, James Marshall (2), Kwame Graham, J.D. Parran, Floyd LeFlore, François Nyombo, Ajule Rutlin, Carl Arzinia Richards

The Human Arts Ensemble was a 1970s musical collective operating in St. Louis. Members explored free jazz and loosely associated themselves with the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) and the Black Artists' Group (BAG) collective.

It was formed in 1971 with the idea that performers could perform in the ensemble, without restrictions as to the performer's race. Additionally, public funding had ended for musical associations that were suspected of having connections with radical organizations. It disbanded in 1977.