The Cloud Foundation believes in the transformative power of art to enrich the lives of urban youth. We support innovative programs that build confidence, ambition, and hope in Boston's young people through artistic creation and cross-cultural communication.

The Cloud Foundation was created in 1999 by David and Aurèlie Edwards to promote mastery in the arts, cross-cultural communication, and the development of life skills for urban youth in the Boston area and worldwide.

	New! Cloud Place 2007-08 Documentary Filmed by the Cloud Foundation's Teen Film Curators* and edited by Oliver Anderson with Jared Katsiane.	Support Cloud place with a secure online contribution
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At the heart of the Cloud Foundation’s work is Cloud Place — a studio, media, and performing arts center for teens in Boston’s Copley Square. As a 501(c)3 private operating foundation, the Cloud grants space at Cloud Place to non-profit youth arts programs and organizations for workshops, classes, rehearsals, and special events. Space grant recipients reach urban youth who have limited opportunities for sustained involvement in the arts and offer innovative art and performance programs with a dual focus on artistic advancement and youth development.

Through resident programs at Cloud Place, the Cloud Foundation fosters strong mentor relationships between teens and professional artists and promotes artistic mastery in diverse artistic media. Seeking artists with strong teaching skills and a desire to create innovative work in partnership with young people and communities, the Cloud crafts workshops for teens that are interdisciplinary, guiding teen participants to view their relationships and the world around them in new ways.

The Cloud Foundation’s Teen Curatorial Program, now in its 5th year, gives young people from across the Boston area an opportunity to create spoken word shows, film screenings, art exhibitions, and promotional materials in the professional venue of Cloud Place, leading all aspects of event design and planning. The Teen Curators’ YouthFusion event series showcases work by more than 200 young artists and performers from across the country each year.

The Cloud’s International Exchanges use the arts as a universal language to promote communication and cross-cultural understanding among young people. Each year, the Exchange program sends young people from Boston to Paris, and vice-versa, to collaborate with youth artists from another culture.