In The News

CNCS Awards ArtistYear $1.5 Million in National Funding

Corporation for National & Community Service. 20 May 2020

ArtistYear Immediately Repositions its AmeriCorps Members to Offer Virtual Arts Learning

Daily American. 14 MAY 2020

Presser Foundation Awards ArtistYear and Others in Special Round of Grants

Philadelphia Inquirer. 28 April 2020

Artistic Learning Twice as Nice

Post Independence. 14 MAR 2020

ArtistYear Receives Prestigious NEA Grant

Arts.gov. 15 JAN  2020

ArtistYear Receives $150,000 from NY Community Trust!

NY Community Trust.  11 FEB 2019

Sharing Joy by Teaching Students the Art of Music

Post Independent. 18 SEP 2018

Robeson Students Use Senior Projects to Think Outside the Box

Lauren Lowe's service year. The Philadelphia Tribune. JUN 5, 2018

ArtistYear Receives NEA Grant for Training Citizen-Artists

Arts.gov. 13 FEB 2019

Citizen-Artists Reporting for Duty!

ArtistYear prepares a new generation of teaching-artists through national service. Teaching Artist Guild Quarterly. APR 2018

ArtistYear Fellow Inspires a New Generation of Musicians at Waterside School

The Rockaway Times. MAR 22, 2018

Increasing Arts Education Through a Service Year

Robert Simmons III, EdD, Americans for the Arts. MAR 14, 2018

F. Amadee Bregy School: A mix of programs gives students tools to succeed

Philly Tribune. MAR 6, 2018 

ArtistYear AmeriCorps Service Program Educates Roaring Fork Students

Post Independent. JAN 5, 2018

The First Arts Coffee House Comes to Frankford High School

Northeast Times. DEC 20, 2017

ArtistYear Teaching-Artist Brings Dancing to Saul Agricultural High School

WRTI. OCT 23, 2017

Artist Turns Her Career into a Calling through a Service Year

The Renewal Project. OCT 4, 2017

Inner City Arts Teachers Get Help from an Unlikely Source

Musical America. SEP 21, 2017

AMFS, ArtistYear & AmeriCorps Bring 5 Musicians to Serve Rural Colorado

Aspen Public Radio. SEP 20, 2017

ArtistYear Expands Beyond Philadelphia, Sending Teaching-Artists to Schools in Need

WHYY Radio. SEP 12, 2017

Arts Service Program Connects Students in Low Income Schools with Arts

KWY 1060 Radio. SEP 15, 2017

AmeriCorps Takes Philly’s Artist-in-Schools Program National

Philadelphia Inquirer. SEP 12, 2017

ArtistYear, First National Service Organization for the Arts Receives AmeriCorps Funding & Expands Nationally

NEWS - SEP 12, 2017

Will Private Funding Save Public Music Education?

Philadelphia Inquirer. AUG 3, 2017

Sing for Life: Music was the Answer

Aspen Institute and Aspen Music Festival & School in conversation with bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green and ArtistYear's Margo Drakos. JUL 2017

‘The Wiz’ at South Philly High School

Continuing a long music tradition that had been broken. The Notebook. JUN 2017

Lenfest Funds ArtistYear to Bring Arts to Underserved Philadelphia Schools

NEWS - JUN 2016