Building a Strong Community Base:
A Look at AS220

Portrait of Bert Crenca: black and white photograph of him sitting in a room, light comming from the side, presumably from a window.

Photo by Pam Murray

:: Bert Crenca, founder and artistic director of the community arts center AS220 in Providence, Rhode Island, talked with Josephine Reed about AS220 and its educational offshoot AS220 Youth and Providence Youth Arts Collaborative, a collective formed in 2004 of six not-for-profit arts organizations. For the full interview with Crenca, go here.