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Press
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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