Custom Arts Learning Residencies

Custom Arts Learning Residency programs bring sequential, workshops, and performance opportunities to students who would otherwise lack access. All programs are designed with our partners to meet the learning goals of their students and vary from 3 days to year-long instruction.

All residencies:

Build artistic skills, revealing new talent and affinities.
Develop transferable social-emotional skills from listening and collaboration to patience and time management
Culminate in showcase performances that allow students to cement and demonstrate learning, gaining a tremendous feeling of accomplishment
Are accessible and inclusive for students

Since 1998, Expanded Arts Access Custom Arts Learning Residencies have provided free and subsidized, hands-on arts learning to young creatives at the following sites:

Arlington Middle School, Lawrence (African Dance & Drumming)
Barnstable County Innovation School, Hyannis (Intergenerational Storytelling)
Boston Community Leadership Academy (StoriesLive)
Boston Latin Academy, Roxbury (Hip Hop Dance)
Channing Elementary School, Hyde Park (Hip Hop Dance)
Clifford Marshall Elementary School, Quincy (Hip Hop Dance)
East Boston Early Education Center (Visual Arts-Masks & Puppetry)
Ellis Elementary, Roxbury (Hip Hop Dance & Racial Equity, Latin Drumming)
Emily G. Wetherbee, Lawrence (Percussion & Movement)
Excel Academy Charter School, East Boston (Street Art)
Gardner Pilot Academy, Allston (Friday Arts-Multidisciplinary, Musical Theater, Early Childhood Music)
Horace Mann Laboratory, Salem (Creating Bridges Through Music)
Kenny Elementary School, Dorchester (Hip Hop Dance)
Lilla G. Frederick Pilot Middle School, Dorchester (Dance, Latin Drumming)
New Mission High School, Hyde Park (Hip Hop Dance, Visual Art, StoriesLive, Latin Drumming)
Ohrenberger School, West Roxbury (Latin Dance)
Perkins Elementary School, South Boston (African Dance)
Point Webster Middle, Quincy (Hip Hop Dance)
RISE Academy, Lawrence (Film and Media Arts)
Russell Elementary School, Dorchester (Multicultural Dance & Percussion)
Sarah Greenwood K-8 School, Dorchester (Latin Drumming & Dance)
St. Mary's, Lynn (General Music)
West End House, Allston (Hip Hop Dance)
Worcester Technical High School (Street Art)

THANK YOU TO OUR FUNDING PARTNERS FOR THEIR SUPPORT

Adelard A & Valdea Lea Roy Foundation
Boston Cultural Council- Boston Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture
EdVestors Arts Expansion Fund
Eugene Fay Family Trust
Friendship Foundation
Liberty Mutual Foundation
Massachusetts Cultural Council
Ramsey McCluskey Family Foundation

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For more information, including how to bring a Custom Arts Learning Residency program to your students, please contact Executive Director, Julie McConchie

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Testimonials for EAA Custom Arts Learning Residencies

“Young Audiences has had an incredible impact on our students. At GPA, over 85% of our students qualify for free and reduced lunch – many of our students lack opportunities that their wealthier peers in the suburbs are provided. Through our partnership with Young Audiences, we are able to close this opportunity gap with exposure to a variety of high-quality and engaging arts instruction for all GPA students.”

“Overall, the aspect of our partnership that we are must appreciate of is the collaborative and hardworking spirit of the team at Young Audiences. We work hard to ensure that our Friday Arts program is reflective of our mission and vision and it is a huge support to have Young Audiences as a partner in this work.”

Erica Hermann, Principal, Gardner Pilot Academy

“I have seen students use their talents to produce a dance piece that reflects their personalities and uniqueness as individuals. Friday Arts gives students the opportunity to find other areas where they can excel and find success in new skills all while having fun with teachers and peers!”

Classroom Teacher, Gardner Pilot Academy

"I liked the improv games like Bus Stop and the Picture Game. I learned how to focus on the way you talk and pose and react. It was all interesting to me. Mr. Dennis was my role model to let me know that I wanted to be an actor someday :)"

Gardner Pilot Academy 7th grade Theater Student

“Embarking on this partnership with YAMA demonstrated that our vision for middle school arts integration is possible. YAMA has been one of the best partners we have had, primarily due to their fidelity in providing service to our students, their instructors’ passion and ability to work with our young people, their strong communication with the school’s leadership, and their out-of-the-box thinking and willingness to brainstorm solutions to problems that arose throughout the school year. We could not ask for a better partner.”

Naia Wilson, headmaster, New Mission High School