Academic-artists Reaching Towards Success Foundation Inc

Academic-artists Reaching Towards Success (A.R.T.S) Foundation Inc stems its name from the same concept of "student-athlete". Essentially, academic-artists receive the same support as your traditional student athlete would but instead of focusing on athletics, art is the focal point. As a youth-led organization, we challenge barriers of racism and cycles of poverty, providing educational, employment and creative opportunity, mentorship, technical capacity and skills of craft, as well as the social and emotional competency to restore balance, natural aspiration and vision to Brockton’s families. Our holistic approach provides a safe physical space, quality staff and skilled mentorship. Our forward-leaning programming disrupts historical underrepresentation of people or color, providing a scaffolding of support from which young people will rise. We make Brockton’s youth, many of whom will be first-generation college students, feel at home in spaces of higher education and professional achievement in the arts and sciences. Cultivating a safe environment for academic-artist to express their artistic abilities and teach them how to start their own businesses and or pursue education beyond high school. The A.R.T.S Foundation inc. is an organization operating as a charitable organization under applicable MA laws. A.R.T.S is a U.S.-based organization and is organized and operating under section 501 (c)(3) of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code.