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>>> New Urban Arts is now podcasting. Subscribe today!

>>> The popular exhibition, "Creative Cartography" has been extended.

>>> Farewell White Whale Web Services!

>>> Now accepting high school student registrations for our after-school arts mentoring program. A Student Recruitment Team is ready to visit your school or organization.

>>> Check out our friends and supporters.

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New Urban Arts is now podcasting. Subscribe today!

New Urban Arts' Podcast features digital storytelling, short videos, music, poems, audio tours, and other unexpected curiosities created by high school students and artist mentors. Subscribe today to be inspired by our latest podcasts. (Podcasting 101 is below.)

Our first 2 episodes feature:

Mix Tape for the City's "Mix Tape for New Urban Arts." This 30-minute piece is a guided audio tour of the neighborhood around New Urban Arts, featuring street sounds and interviews with students, artists, business owners, and neighbors met along the way. For best enjoyment, download to your portable player, bring it to New Urban Arts at 743 Westminster Street, then press play. Don't worry, it's easy and we promise you'll finish where you started. For out-of-towners or those who cannot make the trip, listen at home and enjoy an imaginary trip around our neighborhood. This podcast is generously supported by the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities, an independent state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
The second posting, "Sock Puppets, Soup, and Adventure" is a 5-minute video created by 4 students: Johnathan Santoni, Laura Huaranga, Kian Schenfield, and Johnny Nuong. In this short, the sock puppets contemplate how to choose the right college, dangerously encounter flying scissors and hot glue guns, and desperately plea for help from "Big Face" to save their galaxy. Special thanks to artist mentor, Andrew Oesch.

Podcasting 101
Podcasts are multimedia files (audio, video, etc.) distributed over the internet for playback on personal computers and mobile mp3 players. Read more at www.wikipedia.org. You need to "subscribe" to receive a podcast, like you might subscribe to a magazine and get it delivered each week. Subscribing to a podcast lets you automatically receive the latest episode of your chosen program as soon as it is available. New Urban Arts' podcasts are free, and you can stop receiving the files at any time. To subscribe to New Urban Arts' podcast, cut and paste this url into your podcasting software: http://www.newurbanarts.org/podcasts.rss.

If you use iTunes, you can also subscribe to New Urban Arts' podcast by clicking here.

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"Creative Cartography" extended due to popular demand!

New Urban Arts has extended the exhibition "Creative Cartography" until next Thursday, October, 19th due to the positive response from gallery visitors. The exhibition features interpretive maps by 10 high school students and new series of landscape paintings by scholar in residence, Peter Hocking.

One visitor commented on the exhibition, "I really got a sense of the young people as individuals. Unlike so many student art shows, I was left with impressions that went worlds beyond the artwork. The students' artist statements that accompany each piece were extremely expressive and personal."

The exhibition is on view in the gallery, weekdays 3-6 pm, at 743 Westminster Street.

To see photos from our summer program that led to this exhibition, go to our Flickr PhotoGallery.

Creative Cartography is made possible through major funding fupport from the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities.

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Farewell White Whale!

Over a year ago, New Urban Arts experimented with a new partnership by sharing our studio with the thriving web company, White Whale Web Services. We hardly knew what to expect when we made this decision, nor could we have anticipated what happened. Our studio became a more inspired place, and the relationships between students, artists, and designers were stronger for their presence.

The relationship unfolded in many different ways: students and web designers sharing ideas about design and music, ongoing discussions of Bruce Mau's Incomplete Manifesto for how to grow a design firm, Friday jam sessions featuring students, artists, and White Whale designers, and of course, the introduction of www.newurbanarts.org, a powerful tool for our friends and participants.

Now, it is time to say goodbye. According to White Whale Web Services' website, "Jason Pontius, the president of White Whale, is moving to California, for obvious reasons (it's nice there) and not-so-obvious ones (he and his girlfriend are from there). With him travels company headquarters." For more information about the move, click here.

Aneudy Alba, a recent graduate of New Urban Arts' programs, comments on their departure, "I'm sad they are gone. But I am not going to focus on the fact that they left. It's an emotional thing. I am going to put all I can into my creative work. That's the legacy of White Whale."

Though White Whale still maintains web developers locally, Providence and New Urban Arts will miss Pontius's vision, energy, and support. Best of luck, White Whale, and stay in touch.

Now accepting new high school students for our free after-school arts mentoring programs

New Urban Arts is a nationally recognized program that pairs artist mentors with small groups of high school students. Together, they explore their creative sides, make new friends, develop their artistic skills and a portfolio, and prepare new work for exhibition and presentation.

The program has a flexible schedule and can accommodate students’ busy lives after-school. Arts mentoring groups meet two days each week between October 3, 2006 and May 19, 2007. To view New Urban Arts schedule of workshops, click here.

New students are eligible to sign up for one mentoring group. High school students can also drop in to the studio to work independently whenever they can.

Through our programs, students can practice photography, digital media, creative writing, fashion design, sculpture, painting and drawing, silkscreening, printmaking, and other media.

Juniors, who participate throughout the academic year, are also eligible to participate in a free college advising program, offered by College Visions, beginning in the spring of 2007.

You are welcome to download a registration form or call Sarah Meyer, Program Director, at 401-751-4556 to have one mailed to you. For more information about New Urban Arts, please contact Sarah by phone or email: sarah@newurbanarts.org.

For school personnel, community partners, and other youth advocates, New Urban Arts now has a Student Recruitment Team available for informational sessions at your school or organization. Alumni of New Urban Arts’ programs will introduce you and your students to New Urban Arts and encourage young people to register. If you are interested in scheduling a visit from us, please contact: Tamara Kaplan, Recruitment and Engagement Coordinator at tamara@newurbanarts.org or 401-751-4556.

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As always, the ever popular Tiny Showcase.

Learn about exciting cultural events in Rhode Island at www.rifutures.org.

And, students and families at New Urban Arts are thankful this year for College Visions.

About New Urban Arts
New Urban Arts is a nationally recognized arts studio for high school students and emerging artists in Providence, Rhode Island. Our mission is to build a vital learning community that empowers young people, developing creative practices they can sustain throughout their lives. We serve 125 high school students and 15 emerging artists through after-school and summer programs each year.