The President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities and its cultural partners – the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Institute of Museum and Library Services – are proud to recognize 50 outstanding programs in the field of Creative Youth Development across the country for their work in providing excellent arts and humanities learning opportunities to young people. From big cities to small towns, the 2017 National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award Finalists reflect the diversity of disciplines and settings of these exceptional creative youth development programs that are taking place from coast to coast.

Congratulations to the Massachusetts programs named as finalists for 2017:

Codman Academy Summer Shakespeare Institute
Huntington Theatre Company, Inc., Boston

New Bedford Whaling Museum High School Apprenticeship Program
Old Dartmouth Historical Society, New Bedford

RAISE (Responding to Art Involves Self Expression)
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown

Shakespeare Inside and Out
Actors’ Shakespeare Project, Somerville