User:JKizzieHumanities/Community Music Works

Community MusicWorks is a community-based music education and performance non-profit organization serving inner-city youth and families in Providence, Rhode Island. Community MusicWorks was described in the New Yorker as "a revolutionary organization in which the distinction between performing and teaching disappears."

Community MusicWorks was founded in 1997 by MacArthur Fellowship "Genius Grant" recipient and violist musician Sebastian Ruth. In 2010, Community MusicWorks was awarded the National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award by First Lady Michelle Obama.

In addition to providing instrument instruction in violin, viola and cello and Community MusicWorks Community MusicWorks offers a two-year Fellowship Program, and CMW resident musicians perform as the ensemble MusicWorks Collective in a concert series throughout Providence and surrounding communities.