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PUBLICATIONS
Institute of Other Significant Pursuits: Sitting in the Questions
Posted August 2011
In summer 2010, New Urban Arts launched a new program for alumni artist mentors, Chapter One of the Institute of Other Significant Pursuits, which invited ten alumni artist mentors from five different states to sit in the questions of their current pursuits, who remain in conversation with their past experiences as artist mentors at New Urban Arts. Published through Lulu Press, Inc, the paperback book is also available in full-color print for purchase at cost by visiting our store on lulu. Download the pdf here.
2008 Program Evaluation Report
Posted December, 2008
Program Resource Guides from New Urban Arts Annual Summer Art Inquiry
Evey summer New Urban Arts brings together high school students with scholars and artist over five weeks in July and August for a critical and creative inquiry exploring a common theme from a multi-disciplinary standpoint. Themes selected explore the human experience as it intersects with creative practice. Themes thus far have included mapmaking, shrine-making, archives and coorespondence.
The curriculum developed through this thematic arts and humanities program is available for free. The publications' format allows readers to adapt the activitites described into any educational environment or personal artist's practice. If you would like to purchase a color-printed version of any of these publications, please visit our store at Lulu Press.
Download Program Resource Guides below:
Summer 2011 Art Inquiry: Placemaking
Summer 2010 Art Inquiry: Encounter
Summer 2009 Art Inquiry: Archives and Collections
Summer 2008 Art Inquiry: Creative Correspondence
Summer 2007 Art Inquiry: Shrines and Commemorative Art
Summer 2006 Art Inquiry: Creative Cartography
Nu Mu Cru 2009: A photo book on our 2009 summer mural team available through Blurb.
It's Our Studio : the Nature of Mentorship at New Urban Arts by Elena Belle White
A recent graduate of Harvard's Graduate School of Education, Arts in Education Program, Elena Belle White wrote this research paper in Fall 2008 for a course entitled: Creative Empowerment: Engaging Youth in Community through the Arts. To read, click here.
A Story about New Urban Arts by Sarah Gibson
As a Brown University Student, Sarah Gibson wrote this article in March 2007 for a creative non-fiction writing class. To read, 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.
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