AS220 Youth is a nationally recognized, award-winning after-school educational program and creative incubator for young people. Serving young people ages 14-21 with a special focus on those in the care and custody of the state, the program strives to dismantle the pipeline to prison by empowering at-risk, beyond-risk, and incarcerated youth through arts, culture, and collective action.
AS220 Youth provides free arts programming in three primary locations: our Empire Street Studio (115 Empire Street, Providence); Nowell Leadership Academy, a charter school founded in order to primarily serve pregnant and parenting young people; and the Rhode Island Training School (RITS), the state’s juvenile detention facility. Once youth are released from the Training School, they can continue working with us at our Empire Street Studio until age 21, when they can become involved with other AS220 artistic programming.
