Archive for the ‘New Urban Arts’ Category
TONIGHT: Soup Seminar: New Urban Arts!
Soup Seminar:: a micro-investment grant Small investments make big change Thursday November 19, 6:30 – 8:00pm in the Ewing House
November 19th: TYLER DENMEAD of NEW URBAN ARTS
“The founding executive director of a nationally recognized interdisciplinary arts studio for high school students and emerging artists”
$3 Dinner + Dynamic Speaker = Grant Opportunities! Proceeds from dinner are put into a fund for participants to allocate to projects that connect RISD with other communities. Come to 3 seminars over the year and you will be eligible to join us on the selection committee.
New Urban Arts is Recruiting Artist Mentors for 2009-2010
Each September, New Urban Arts selects 20 artist mentors to participate in its interdisciplinary art studio on Westminster Street in providence. Artist Mentors volunteer to work with high school students in developing creative practices they can sustain throughout their lives. Working at New Urban Arts has proven to be an excellent way for artists to develop their capacity as educators in community settings. New Urban Arts is also able to support students with Federal Work Study grants complete their work requirement as an Artist Mentor. For an Application to become an artist mentor, contact New Urban Arts at 751-4556 or pick up an application at the Office of Public Engagement, enter for Integrative Technology (CIT) second floor.
New Urban Arts at the Providence Athenaeum
This summer, I’m working with New Urban Arts as a “scholar in residence” for their Summer Inquiry Program. Here’s a posting I made to the New Urban Arts blog about the program’s visit to the Providence Athenaeum.
- Pete Hocking
