Young Audiences

Young Audiences Arts for Learning, founded in 1952, is the nation’s leading source of arts-in-education services. Our mission and goal is to help make the arts an essential part of young people’s education.

Arts for Learning advances the artistic and educational development of youngsters by bringing them together with professional artists of all disciplines to learn, create and participate in the arts. This year, Young Audiences’ network of 31 affiliates and 4,600 artists reached 7 million children in nearly 7,500 schools with 17,400 performance demonstrations, 70,804 workshops and 4,807 teacher services.

To see a brief video example of what happens when YA teaching artists work with kids, click the Media Stream button under the photo. To see another, click again.

To see our programs, click here.