Artists for Humanity
Founded in 1991, Artists for Humanity engages Boston teens in arts-based entrepreneurship. The organization expects its 130 teen artists to work a minimum of six hours a week and pays them an hourly wage to produce paintings, murals, sculptures, photographs, silk-screened T-shirts, digital media projects and graphic designs that are sold to individual and corporate clients. The young artists begin their time at Artists for Humanity with a 72-hour apprenticeship. Encouraged to express themselves through the arts, youth become empowered as they exert control over their micro-enterprises and over their lives. Artists for Humanity is recognized nationally as a leader in youth-led arts entrepreneurship and has been honored with a Coming Up Taller Award from the President's Committee on Arts and Humanities; a Silver Medal from the Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence; and a Best Practices in Teen Programming award from Boston’s After School for All Partnership.
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Media Coverage
'Artists for Humanity' Blend Art and Economics
By Michelle Miller, CBS News
September 7, 2010
The graduate
By James Sullivan, Boston Globe
June 27, 2010
In South Boston, The Greenest of 'Green' Buildings
By David Boeri, WBUR
February 27, 2009
Lid Lifts on Plumbing Museum
By Christie Laubenstein, Waltham Daily News Tribune
February 6, 2009
Sculptors Reinventing the Wheel-Holder
By Noah Bierman, Boston Globe
November 2, 2008
Boston:Achilles Project
By David Kauffman, New York Times
July 13, 2008
Businesses Help Put 500 Teens to Work
By Christopher Baxter, Boston Globe
July 1, 2008
Saved by God, Art
By Yvonne Abraham, Boston Globe
June 22, 2008
Fancy Footwork
By Nicole Zerillo, Plenty
May 2, 2008
Green Stamp: Sustainability is Chic
By Jill Radsken, Boston Herald
April 16, 2008
Bostonist Fashion: Artists for Humanity
Bostonist
March 14, 2008
Latin Art Reflects Struggles
By Cynthia Retamozo, Northeastern News
October 11, 2007
Gillette Donates $175K to S. Boston Charities
Boston Business Journal
September 24, 2007
America's Top Urban Places For 2007 Selected by National Panel of Experts
PR Newswire
June 20, 2007
Architects Announce 10 Best "Green" Buildings
By Deborah Zabarenko, Reuters
April 23, 2007
For Earth Day, the Painters' Palettes Were Entirely Green
By J.M. Berger, Boston Globe
April 22, 2007
From Her Mike to the Young Ears of Hip-Hop: Peace
By Matthew M. Burke, Boston Globe
January 21, 2007
Church Opens the Red Door to Art
By Bev Wax, Dover-Sherborn Press
November 9, 2006
Local Artists Bring Hope to BMC Patients
By Tenley Woodman, Boston Herald
October 16, 2006
Thriving Culture Yields Dividends
By Swanee Hunt, Scripps Howard News Service
January 18, 2006
