Community Art Center

Founded in 1937, the mission of the Community Art Center is to cultivate an engaged community of youth whose powerful artistic voices transform their lives, their neighborhoods and their worlds. The Community Art Center has propelled close to 8000 Cambridge youth to develop themselves artistically, academically and socially. We do this by providing a combined total of approximately 3000 program hours per year through three program areas the School Age Child Care Program, the Teen Media Program and our Community Programs which include the Home Port Public Art Project, the Creative Current Public Art project in Kendall Square and the Do It Your Damn Self!! National Youth Film Festival. Winner of a Coming Up Taller award in 2006, named a Citizen’s Bank Champion in Action in 2018 and a recipient of the National Endowment of the Arts Our Town fund in 2017, the Community Art Center maintains a long history of quality, arts-based youth development programming.