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Providence Monthly names Executive Director Jason Yoon one of "Ten People You Don't Know But Soon Will (And Who May Change Providence)."NEW URBAN ARTS IS A 2009 COMING UP TALLER AWARD WINNER!!!
First Lady Michelle Obama presents New Urban Arts a Coming Up Taller Award in Washington DC! New Urban Arts has been nationally recognized as one of 15 youth arts and humanities programs to receive the prestigious 2009 Coming Up Taller Award. An initiative of the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, the Coming Up Taller award is the nation’s highest honor for the field of out-of-school time arts and humanities programs. Read more about it here. Follow live updates today from DC on twitter or our blog!
Jason Yoon, executive director and Rosalia Velis, a New Urban Arts alumna and the chair of the Studio Team Advisory Board traveled to Washington DC to receive the Coming Up Taller award on behalf of New Urban Arts from First Lady Michelle Obama in a White House Ceremony. Download the full press release here.
"New Urban Arts is a shining example of how the arts nurture the social, emotional, and long term
development of our nation's youth. It gives me great pleasure to know the organization is being
recognized nationally and brings me great pride to know that our city is the home of this
exceptional model program, " Providence Mayor David N. Cicilline
Click here for the Providence Journal Article
Featured on NBC10
The Rhode Island State Council on the Arts awarded 18 arts organizations grants through the National Endowment for the Arts and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Executive Director Jason Yoon spoke about the arts and recovery. Watch the story:
New Urban Arts Featured on MTV News' Choose or Lose Campaign!
RISD student Shoham Arad is spending the summer as a "citizen journalist" covering Rhode Island for MTV. Last week, she spent time in our studio and posted a story about our studio and the issues we address.
Photo in the New York Times
Article in Providence Monthly
 | "Readers' choice for Best non-profit group in RI in 2003", Providence Phoenix |
 | Executive Director named best role model in Rhode Island in 2003, Rhode Island Monthly |
 | Named one of fifty premiere arts and youth development programs in the country by the Coming Up Taller Program in 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005 |
 | Named a Champion in Action for youth support in 2005 by Citizens Bank and NBC10 |
 | Executive Director named "one of 10 people you don't now, but soon will because they are changing the face of Providence" in 2004, Providence Monthly |
 | "…one of the most innovative approaches to youth development in the city." |
 | "…New Urban Arts, a highly acclaimed after-school arts program for Providence youth." |
 | "…step inside the group's storefront space, where young people are usually making art or working on costumes and set designs. Their enthusiasm is infectious…" |
| "The teenaged students are utilizing art to explore history, values, hopes, and dreams…. New Urban Arts merges the experiences of the art studio, apprenticeship, and mentorship to utilize the visual arts as a context for building relationships between working artists and young students." |
| "…New Urban Arts participants are encouraged to become active agents in their future, rather than simply receiving instruction."
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| "New Urban Arts receives Waterfire Community Arts Award …for its impact and work in the Rhode Island community…" |
| "New Urban Arts has received national recognition by Coming Up Taller, a program of the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities, which for the past three years has called it one of the fifty premier arts and youth development programs…. As a young leader, Denmead has worked for seven years to have a positive impact on our youth in ways that are often overlooked." |
| "At New Urban Arts….Ashten found a world where, at last, he felt he fit in." |
| ""New Urban Arts began in 1997 with a question: What happens when you give high school students a supportive, nurturing space to develop their creative voice and provide them with mentors with whom they can build meaningful relationships? Four college students, three from Brown and one from RISD, set out to discover the answer. What they created were the beginnings of an educational phenomenon." |
| "Programs such as Community MusicWorks and New Urban Arts are unusual in that they are not outreach components of some larger non-profit looking for a conscience or a way to make their grant applications seem sexier. The idea behind these grass-roots efforts is to be accessible, which is to say free and based in the community as support for kids when they hit rough patches in their lives." |
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