Our Stories. Our Selves. ARTobiographies of Elementary Students.

Website

: http://www.urbanartsacademy.org/

The Idea

The Urban Arts Academy is a nonprofit organization that offers free arts programs for over 300 students and educational support through preschool, afterschool, and summer arts programming. We hope to provide our afterschool students with the experience of a video production activity in the future.

The Specifics

Our afterschool program is a nurturing space that empowers kids of all socio-economic backgrounds through experiences in dance, puppetry, music, poetry slams, pottery, gardening, digital media, service projects, and multiple visual, culinary and fiber arts.
One of our dream projects is to make a collaborative autobiographical film written, directed, filmed, acted, and edited entirely by Urban Arts Afterschool children, focusing on the life stories of young inner-city artists, defining who they are as artists and community members, called ARTobiographies. We would be grateful for any support from individuals and/or organizations that could make this dream of ours possible by contributing toward the cost of technology and production.

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