Young Audiences New Jersey & Eastern Pennsylvania

Young Audiences Arts for Learning New Jersey & Eastern Pennsylvania’s (YA) mission is to inspire young people and expand their learning through the arts.

Since its founding in 1973, YA has grown into the region’s most comprehensive arts education organization. Our venue is the school. YA delivers teaching artist-led arts programming directly in PK-12th grade schools through residencies, workshops, performances, and teacher professional learning. YA is committed to providing all children—inclusive of disabilities, neurodiversity, gender diversity, language, economic status, race, and ethnicity—with arts education in which their creativity, cultures, and identities are valued and nurtured. In a typical year, YA reaches approximately 400,000 students in our region, and has a $3M operating budget. YA is comprised of 14 professional staff and is governed and supported by a thriving board of trustees. YA collaborates with teaching artists in all artistic disciplines, sharing diverse cultural art forms and dynamic, authentic arts experiences.

Young Audiences values and embraces diversity in all ways. We strive to remove the barriers to arts participation for students. Learn more about YA’s Arts United commitments to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Access here.