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Arts In Reach is proud to have a gallery show Altered Futures as part of the New Hampshire Art Association’s Fledgling: Artists Under 30 Exhibition!…

Explore a spring filled with creativity through visual arts, performance, and sustainable fashion programs in Portsmouth, NH! Keep checking our website or follow us on…

Our fall and winter of 2023 was filled with laughter, friendships, and, of course, ART! We visited theatres across the Seacoast to witness the power…

Olivia Moore (she/her), AIR’s Mental Health Support Person from Seacoast Mental Health Center, shares about her role at programs, her favorite AIR memories, and more…

It’s Thursday so we’re throwing it back to AIR’s Bloom’d Fashion Show! This past spring Arts In Reach hosted two wearable art programs: SPARC Lab for…

AIR’s Program Coordinator Liliana Mangan (she/her) shares about her musical and theatrical background, how working at AIR has impacted her personal creative practice, and her…

Arts In Reach is proud to present The Fredding, a diorama of a wedding that occurred between a squid plushie and a cardboard pigeon at ArtVentures…

Summer 2023 at AIR was full of all kinds of different artistic adventures, newly crafted connections, and so much fun! Read on to learn all…

AIR Teaching Artist Gemma Soldati (she/her) shares about her favorite AIR memory, how working with teens has impacted her creative practice, and being silly. What…

We offered a Saturday workshop and two weeks of February Vacation programs! Read on to learn more about all of the fun that was had…

Affirming Spaces Project and Arts In Reach are proud to present “YOU ARE VALID!” a community-built paper “quilt” of hand-written supportive messages for TGNC youth collected from NH…

Come on down to New Hampshire Art Association’s Robert Lincoln Levy Gallery to view some work by AIR Artists! Poison Dart Frog Collective is an explosion…

For our final program of the summer, we gathered in Nottingham for five days and played with different aspects of storytelling by experimenting with puppetry…

AIR’s Assistant Program Director Cassie Brazeau (she/her) discusses what Arts In Reach means to her and the importance of being open to trying new things!…

We spent the second week of summer making each other laugh at Funny Camp! Performing and teaching artist Gemma Soldati graced us with her hilarity,…

AIR’s Summer Intern Ember Nevins (she/they) shares about their AIR summer experiences, their artistic inspirations, and what they will be doing next! What is your…

One might ask, how does one create the best show ever? A simple question asked by the curious few, but achieved by a humble ensemble…

AIR’s AmeriCorps VISTA caitlin little (she/they) talks about their move from Nebraska to New Hampshire, their favorite AIR memory, and saying “yes!” to new experiences….

October ‘21 through Jan ‘22, AIR teamed up with local artist extraordinaire RAVEN to bring mixed media to AIR artists! AIR teens explored a variety…

February Vacation was a blast! The young actors entered Garrison Players Arts Center each day excited to connect with each other, learn about theater, and…

AIR Teaching Artist Raven (they/he) talks about teaching art for the first time, his otherworldly inspirations, and that more people should tell teens how special…

Teaching Musician Amanda McCarthy Performs for AIR Teens Hello everyone! My name is Alex Buinicky and I am an AIR alum. I started participating in…

Above: Portrait by Ana, Mythical Creature by Sarah, and Collage by Sienna This year’s spring after school program Wild Imaginings Project was focused on zines!…

This spring, AIR had our first recurring in person program since the start of the pandemic! Six Somersworth middle schoolers met once a week for…