This summer AS220's Broad Street Studio took part in an unprecedented collaboration between The Department of Art, Culture and Tourism, the Office of Mayor David N. Cicilline and Workforce Solutions of Providence/Cranston to provide workforce training and summer jobs opportunities to the Providence's youth. Utilize funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, BSS employee 30 young people to complete projects as diverse as painting a large mural on a building in south Providence, to creating an entire product line of merchandise to represent the studio, to building a library of original beats for to share and reuse with Rhode Island hip hop community, and documenting the different job training programs that happened around the city.

Check out a new video created by Harken Productions of some of the work we did!