CEPA Gallery receives National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award

About CEPA's Community-Based Youth Programming:

Combining photography, technology, and literary arts, CEPA's after-school and out-of-school programs provide accessible and incredibly powerful opportunities for children to exercise their inherent creativity while exploring themes of self, family and community. By welcoming honest expression in response to project themes that are relevant to their lives, we encourage children to see themselves as agents of change-all while rekindling a pure love for learning.
 
Children from diverse backgrounds sit side-by-side to create and discuss their artwork, examine shared experiences and ultimately realize their ability to interpret, to comment on, and to confront the realities they face every day. The outcome is confident, self-aware partners for change who have developed strong voices, empathy for their community, and the sense of personal and civic responsibility necessary to control their lives and affect their futures.




About the NAHYP Award:

First presented in 1998, the National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award, is the signature program of the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities (PCAH), and is presented in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), and the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS).
  
The National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award is the nation's highest honor for after-school arts and humanities programs. The awards recognize and support outstanding programs that lay new pathways to creativity, expression, and achievement outside of the regular school day. These programs excite and engage a range of students, cultivating imagination, collaboration, discipline and academic success, with demonstrable results. They also provide safe harbors after-school, weekends and evenings for children and youth in some of our country's most at-risk urban and rural settings. For more information visit: www.nayhp.org. 




About the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities:

Created in 1982 by Executive Order, the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities (PCAH) is an advisory committee to the White House on cultural issues. The PCAH works directly with the Administration and the three primary cultural agencies-National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), and the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)-as well as other federal partners and the private sector, to address policy questions in the arts and humanities, to initiate and support key programs in those disciplines, and to recognize excellence in the field. Its core areas of focus are arts and humanities education, cultural exchange, and community revitalization. Mrs. Michelle Obama, like other first ladies before her, serves as honorary chairman of the committee, which is composed of both private and public members. For more information, visit: www.pcah.gov.



Press:

CEPA helps give students creative opportunities they wouldn’t get elsewhere
By Colin Dabkowski | News Arts Critic | The Buffalo News November 23, 2013

First lady presents Buffalo’s CEPA Gallery with national arts award
By Jerry Zremski | News Washington Bureau Chief | The Buffalo News November 22, 2013

CEPA Gallery to receive national arts education award from White House
By Colin Dabkowski | News Arts Critic | The Buffalo News November 19, 2013