Emerging Artist Fellowship
Develop your artistic voice and vision through studio time, mentorship, individual and group critiques, and connections to the community.
Create Your Opportunity (CYO)
Turn your creative passion into opportunity by advancing your artistic skills, mentoring young artists, or creating community art/social justice projects. This unique program engages high school youth as artists, as mentors, and as creative community leaders.
Do meaningful, engaging, creative work in your community!
CYO provides High School Youth the tools to develop and use their creative voices to connect with their community.
Three ways to Create Your Opportunity at FYA
Portfolio Development
Community Art
Employment
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Art for Social Action
Learn how to design, fund, and implement a community art project on a topic of your choosing.
For Community Partners
Click here to learn how to commission a young local artist from the Create Your Opportunity Program to create personalized artwork to commemorate milestones, anniversaries, retirements, and more!
Interested in more than one area? No problem! You can design a community art project as part of your portfolio, or guide younger artists in a poster making project that focuses on a social justice issue. You Can Create Your Opportunity!
Create Your Opportunity is made possible by YouthReach, a grant awarded by Mass Cultural Council for Creative Youth Development programs.
