New Urban Arts

Recognition

In 2009, First Lady Michelle Obama presented New Urban Arts with a Coming Up Taller award (now called the National Arts & Humanities Youth Program Awards). An initiative of the President’s Committeeon the Arts and the Humanities, the award is the nation’s highest honor for the field of out-of-school time arts and humanities programs, particularly those that reach underserved children and youth.

In 2009, The U.S. Department of Education selected New Urban Arts as one of 20 organizations in a national study of best practices in high school out-of-school programs.

In 2009, New Urban Arts was one of nine arts organizations across the country selected to participate in ARTOGRAPHY, Arts in a Changing America, a grant and documentation program of Leveraging
Investments in Creativity, funded by the Ford Foundation. The ARTOGRAPHY program will share lessons learned and best practices with the broader field to highlight the value of diverse artistic practices throughout the United States.

Awarded the Jabez Gorham Award by the Arts and Business Council of Rhode Island recognizes outstanding arts/cultural/educational organizations in Rhode Island for unwavering commitment to excellence, significant impact on the community, and success in organizational development.
Named one of fifty premiere arts and youth development programs in the country from the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities in 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2008 and 2009

Described by the Providence School Department as one of the most innovative approaches to youth development in the city.

Voted as the state’s best non-profit in 2003 by the readers of the Providence Phoenix

Founding Executive Director, Tyler Denmead, has been selected as the state’s best role model by Rhode Island Monthly and “one of 10 people you don’t now, but soon will because they are changing the face of Providence” by the Providence Monthly.