Young Audiences WNY remembers Patricia Cotsen for her devoted service to our mission.

Gifts in memory of Patricia Cotsen may be made online via PAYPAL or by check.  Click through here to donate.

 

BREAKING DOWN BARRIERS

Fourth Annual Arts Abilities Conference named this year to honor Patricia Cotsen.  Learn more about the Patricia Cotsen Arts Abilities Conference.  Click through here.

May 11, 2010 at Babeville in Buffalo

Click through here to read further details and presenter biographies.

Learn about additional professional development opportunities for educators and artists, here.

Young Audiences WNY presents hundreds of individual programs, plus dozens of residencies, wherein teaching artists provide schoolchildren, their educators and families, with multi-disciplinary, multi-session education through the arts. These residencies create meaningful connections between artists and young people that might otherwise not be exposed to the arts—especially arts integrated into school curricula.

Reaching over 7 million school children every year, the Young Audiences network received the National Medal of Arts in 1994.  In 2002, Young Audiences of WNY was the recipient of the National Conference for Community and Justice Brother/Sisterhood Award in the Arts and the Commitment to Education Award from the Buffalo Alliance for Education. Young Audiences designated Young Audiences WNY as Affiliate of the Year for 2003.  This year, the Association of Teaching Artists, an international resource to the field, recognized Young Audiences WNY for our service to teaching artists.

While the mission of Young Audiences of Western New York, to bring the arts to all the young people in our area, has never changed, the ways and means have; we see a not-so-subtle shift from simply inspiring young people to see and appreciate art, to also participating and understanding the arts in context of the world in general, and their lives specifically.

Image above: Phonics Program: Alphabet Awareness performance at the Lydia T. Wright School of Excellence. Babik at left.

Join us February 27th and 28th for the first annual Buffalo Powder Keg Festival in downtown Buffalo.

Enjoy Young Audiences Around the World at Gusto at the Gallery on March 12.

Enjoy our program PREMIERE of Underground Railroad in WNY at Ujima Company's Theatre Loft on Saturdays March 13-April 3.

We will be exhibiting work by local artists in our offices in February.  The artists works have been selected by Cynnie Gaasch, our Executive Director.  Read more here.  Read short artist biographies for the exhibiting artists here.