Podcasts:
Occasional podcasts by our high school students and emerging artists, featuring digital storytelling, poems, audio tours, and unexpected curiosities. Subscribe via iTunes.
(RSS url: http://www.newurbanarts.org/podcasts.rss)

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.

New Urban Arts Wiki
http://www.nuahowto.wetpaint.com
Through Wiki, artist mentors and students introduce their creative practice through a series of how to videos including “How to Sew a Ruffle featuring Chez” and “How to Make a Three Layer Screenprint featuring Rebecca Volynsky.” Wikis allow collaborative documentation from many different authors, where anyone from New Urban Arts community can contribute content.

PUBLICATIONS

2008 Program Evaluation Report
Posted December, 2008

To read the Executive Summary and download the full evaluation, click here.

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 to explore shrine-making as a creative practice fueled by a human impulse to link moments and meaning to familiar objects. Shrines resonate with youth as a chance to make sense of their lives and the world around them as they create personal and collaborative works that communicate what they value, believe, desire, question, remember and celebrate. A Program Resource Guide is 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 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.

It's Our Studio : the Nature of Mentorship at New Urban Arts by Elena Belle White
Elena is an artist/teacher/researcher/dreamer/activist/youth-worker. Originally from Pasadena, California Elena currently makes her home in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. Elena is a graduate student at Harvard's Graduate School of Education where she is a master's student in the Arts in Education program. This research paper was written in Fall 2008 for a course entitled: Creative Empowerment: Engaging Youth in Community through the Arts. 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.

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.

ENEWS ARCHIVES
09/09/2008
10/10/2008
11/19/2008
12/21/2008
01/15/2009
02/24/2009
03/24/2009

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