$100K Grant To Artisan’s Asylum In Allston Goes To STEAM Programs

ALLSTON, MA — Artisan’s Asylum received a $100,000 grant from the Cummings Family Foundation that will be used to provide STEAM-based programming to youth and families in the Allston-Brighton area. Artisan’s Asylum is one of 140 local nonprofits to receive grants of $100,000 to $500,000 each through the Cummings Foundation’s $25 Million Grant Program. Artisan’s Asylum was chosen from a total of 580 applicants during a competitive review process.

“Artisan’s Asylum is very grateful to the Cummings Family Foundation for this generous grant that will allow us to provide academically supportive programming to youth in Allston-Brighton that brings together the arts and technology to build skills and foster creativity that can be applied in school, work, and life” said Antonio Viva, executive director of Artisan’s Asylum.

“Through our partnership with Harvard University and with the help of these funds, we look forward to making Artisan’s Asylum facilities and instructors available to the youth in Allston-Brighton,” said Ariel Matisse, board member, Artisan’s Asylum.

The award to Artisan’s Asylum is designed to provide access to STEAM learning to local youth in the Allston-Brighton neighborhoods under the leadership of the new Education and Community Program director, whose hiring was made possible through the Cummings grant. In addition to this direct, hands-on training, Artisan's Asylum will be delivering new parent child courses that foster common experiences and understanding of core STEM content. The goal of this work is to strengthen child-parent academic partnership by bridging the experiential gap due to a lack of access to school and career-based technology. Artisan's Asylum will use funds from the Cummings Foundation over three years to expand access to existing instructional programming in the technical arts, redesign existing programming to better accommodate new audiences, and design and develop new programming based on what is learned over time.

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