This volunteer-run nonprofit is the nerve center of the city’s indie and underground scene, offering arts coverage through its Boston Hassle website and free monthly newspaper, The Boston Compass (which just notched its 100th issue). It also showcases local creators through bimonthly markets and the Dorchester Art Project—a gallery, studio and performance space—and recently opted to make most concerts at many other venues free to the under-18 set for the rest of this year, attracting the next generation of arts enthusiasts.
Other Winners
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Art With Heart
2016 Winner: ArtLifting
The densely detailed drawings, colorful abstract canvases and papercut cityscapes sold by ArtLifting look great and do good, helping to empower the homeless, disabled and disadvantaged artists who created them...
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Art With Heart
2017 Winner: ZUMIX
This Eastie nonprofit is housed in a former firehouse, but it’s all about stoking kids’ creative fires...
- 260 Sumner St., East Boston
- zumix.org
