Community Art Projects
Launched in 2021, Community Art Projects (CAP) are intergenerational courses in contemporary art, in which participants ages 19-65+ work with an Urbano Artist-in-Residence to develop and create a participatory art project in and with a specific community. CAPs provide creative individuals, families, and groups the opportunity to connect and build community, learn new art skills, and investigate urgent social issues through art and place-based education.
Urbano fosters the model of the artist as citizen, actively engaged in conversations with our surrounding community through the lens of contemporary art. Through artistic collaboration, participants and professional artists are challenged to create projects within the boundaries of exhibition spaces, virtually, and in their community. These projects span diverse artistic themes and disciplines, but they are all rooted in the fundamental principles of collaboration, risk-taking, and creative and critical expression.
THEMES
HABITAT
2023-2024
Move.Dwell.Belong.
with Artists-in-Residence: DeAnna Pellecchia & Carmen Rizzo
OUR PLANET, OURSELVES
2022-2023
Our Planet Ourselves (2022-23)
DEMOCRACY
2021-2022
“This is what emancipation means. The blurring of the opposition between they who look and they who act, they who are individuals and they who are members of a collective body.”