Podcasts:
Occasional podcasts by our high school students and emerging artists, featuring digital storytelling, poems, audio tours, and unexpected curiosities. Subscribe via iTunes.
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You can also listen to a few samples of our New Urban Arts' audio by clicking here.

Photogallery:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/newurbanarts/
Inspired by Reggio Emilia, we make our learning visible. Powered by Flickr, this site features great photographs of arts exhibits and the learning that takes place in our studio everyday.

Blog:
http://newurbanarts.blogspot.com/
This is a forum for sharing and generating new knowledge about making creative thought and expression a part of all of our lives. Powered by Blogger, we hope these conversations about community arts programs, past enewsletters, student and mentor perspectives on New Urban Arts, etc. support artists, educators, and entrepreneurs engaged in this work.

Videos:
http://youtube.com/profile?user=newurbanarts
Powered by YouTube, this site features audio and video created by artist mentors and students.

Myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/_nua
Through MySpace, artist mentors and students introduce who we are and what we do to their social networks.

 

PUBLICATIONS

Program Resource Guide from Summer 2007 Thematic Art Inquiry at New Urban Arts:
Secular Shrines and Commemorative Art
New Urban Arts second Annual Summer Art Inquiry brought together ten high school students with scholars and artists in a critical and
creative exploration of shrine-making as a creative practice fueled by a human impulse to link moments and meaning to familiar objects. The urge to establish spaces of refuge outside our daily lives is so great and innate to the human experience that we will subconsciously gather photographs and other meaningful memorabilia on fireplace mantels, desks, bookshelves, gardens, car dashboards and dresser tops. Shrines resonated with youth as a chance to make sense of their lives and the world around them as they created personal and collaborative works that communicated what they value, believe, desire, question, remember and celebrate. Useful for artists, educators, and young people, a program resource guide is now available for free if you are interested in adapting our arts workshops on shrine-making to spark ideas for your own creative practice or educational environment. In this guide you will also find additional resources that were used to generate a new understanding and appreciation of shrine-making and related practices, including commemoration, memorialization, ritual participation and more.
Click here to download or contact info@newurbanarts.org if you would like a printed version of this publication mailed to you.

Program Resource Guide from Summer 2006 Thematic Art Inquiry at New Urban Arts: Creative Cartography
New Urban Arts has launched a new summer program, which invites youth, scholars and artists to co-facilitate a five week Art Inquiry. The 2006 Art Inquiry, "Creative Cartography," explored mapmaking as a creative practice that fulfills the human impulse to locate itself. Cartography resonated with youth as a chance to claim their territory and chart their path, making sense of their lives and the world around them as they created works that communicated personal geographies, internal locations, and creative interpretations of the city they live in. Useful for artists, educators, and young people, a program resource guide is now available for free if you are interested in adapting our arts workshops on mapmaking to spark ideas for your own creative practice or educational environment.
Click here to download.

2007 Program Evaluation Report
Posted November, 2007
This report is a detailed analysis of measurable and reflective data
collected during the 2006-07 program year for our nationally recognized Youth Mentorship Program. Through the generosity of our volunteer artist mentors, we offered over 2,000 hours of mentoring in the arts throughout the 2006-07 academic year for just over $90,000. Be inspired by the wonderful perspectives of young people who describe the program's positive influence. For example, one graduating senior, Michele Downing, writes, “New Urban Arts was the highlight of my senior year. It was the culinary equivalent of soy sauce - for even in the smallest doses, it gave my life a certain flavor that was without parallel to anything else... I will always think back on my memories of being a student at New Urban Arts as some of the happiest times of my youth.” We present this program evaluation online for our stakeholders and for review by leaders of other like-minded afterschool programs. To read the Executive Summary and download the full evaluation, click here.

A Story about New Urban Arts by Sarah Gibson
Sarah Gibson grew up in Vermont and is a first-year at Brown
University.  She wrote this article in March 2007 for a creative
non-fiction writing class. Click here.

A Sustainable Creative Practice
Posted November, 2006
In this document, New Urban Arts examines the importance of a society full of imaginers, people who make creativity an integral part of their lives. It also proposes a framework for how to best make lifelong creativity possible for all people. A sustainable creative practice is the theoretical framework that is the basis for New Urban Arts' arts mentoring programs for young people. Click here to download.

2006 Program Evaluation
Posted May, 2006
This report is an analysis of data collected during the 2005-06 program year for our after-school arts mentoring program for high school students. We present this evaluation online for our stakeholders and for review by leaders of other after-school programs. To read the Executive Summary and download the evaluation, click here.

Poetry Workshop Planning Guide
Posted October, 2005
We have created a poetry workshop planning guide for 4 high school student writers at New Urban Arts who were selected to mentor junior high students in developing a writing practice. For information and a downloadable guide on our workshop, click here.

Photographs online
Check out these photographs by students: Amanda Abreu, Mary Adewusi, Hannah Candelaria, Rosa Cantor, Miguel Garcia, Samantha Khiev, Sosothabna Ngim, Tiffany Pires, Imani Walters who presented their work at the RISD Museum on January 14th, 2007.

ENEWS ARCHIVES
5/16/2006
6/7/2006
7/31/2006
8/4/2006
8/16/2006
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10/12/2006
10/18/2006
11/16/2006
12/4/2006
1/9/2007
2/5/2007
2/15/2007
3/6/2007
3/14/2007
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7/18/2007
8/08/2007
11/07/2007
12/05/2007
02/14/2008

 

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