UPCOMING EVENTS
“Home is Here.”
On July 17th, the Urbano Project will be unveiling a mural created by the students of its summer drawing and painting program, “Home is Here.” A six-week-long creative placemaking study that was instructed by Artist-in-Residence, Yixuan Zeng, and rooted in using drawing and painting as both a lens and means to seeing home, understanding home, and making home. The mural will be located in Fields Corner in Dorchester.
We’ll be holding not only an unveil of our students' mural, but an artist talk and exhibition of the mural's early sketches, a time-lapse presentation, and reception with our students and programming team.
Wednesday, July 17th - 4:30pm:
Brain Arts Org
1443 Dorchester Ave A,
Boston, MA 02122
RSVP HERE!
EVENTS ARCHIVE
“Move. Dwell. Belong.”
A final showcase performance, artist Q&A, and free community event. Presented to you by Artist-in-Residence, DeAnna Pellecchia, asst. choreographer, Carmen Rizzo, and their students in our Spring movement program, “Move. Dwell. Belong.”
Fri, June 28 - 7PM:
Jo-Mé Dance Arts, 85 Seaverns Ave,Jamaica Plain, MA 02130 (indoors) - doors open at 6:30pm
Sat, June 29 - 2PM:
Schoolmaster Hill, Franklin Park,Boston, MA 02124 (outdoors)
Raindate:
Sun, June 30 - 2PM:
Location: TBA
RSVP at our EventBrite, HERE
“Empowered Earth” A Community Event
Saturday May 18, 2024, 1-3 PM
Come view ceramic artworks made by local students and create your own clay masterpiece.
The Cambridge Foundry -
101 Rogers St
Cambridge, MA 02142
“Connection to Place: Mud, Magic, and Mystery” Final Showcase
Saturday, Nov 18, 2023, 1:00 PM | RSVP today!
The Cambridge Foundry - Community Hall
101 Rogers St
Cambridge, MA 02142
“Myths for the 22nd Century” Final Event / Movement Performance
Saturday, April 8, 2023, 3:00 PM | RSVP today!
The Cambridge Foundry - STEAM Set
101 Rogers St
Cambridge, MA 02142
2022
“Through Our Eyes” Community Sharing
Saturday, August 20, 11:00AM-12:00 PM
Egleston Square Public Library, 2044 Columbus Ave, Boston, MA 02119
Youth Artists in the “Through Our Eyes: Reflections on Climate Justice” project with Artist-in-Residence Sarah Plotkin and a group of older adults from Back of The Hill apartment complex will perform stories of climate justice in Boston, inspired both by personal experience and one-on-one interviews with climate justice activists.
“Performance: History/Ritual/Identity” Final Showcase
Friday, August 19, 6-9:00 PM | Doors at 6, Performance at 7
Cultural Equity Incubator, 15 Channel Center St, Suite 103, Boston, MA 02210
Participants of the “Performance: History, Ritual, Identity” Community Art Project with Artist-in-Residence Lani Asunción will present their final, collaborative performance exploring identity and place-based histories in Boston.
“Making Oasis” Community Celebration
Thursday, August 18, 6-8:00 PM
15 Pleasantview St, Boston, MA 02136
Youth Artists in the “Making Oasis” project with Artist-in-Residence Joseph Madres will present their transformed green space in Hyde Park, tour us around their installations (sculpture, mosaics, and more), and lead artmaking activities with the public.
POW! Pop-Up Pottery Workshop
Saturday, July 23, 11AM-3PM
Milk Street Plaza on The Greenway (74-8 Milk Street, at the intersection of Milk Street & Surface Road, near Aquarium)
Join Teaching Artist Hannah Niswonger and Youth Artists from the “Pots on Wheels!” (POW) Summer Workshop for an outdoor clay cup-making activity on The Greenway! Look for the POW! truck on Milk Street Plaza near the Aquarium. Learn to make pottery using a variety of techniques and try your hand at throwing on the people-powered treadle wheel! Paint and sgraffito a cup and tour the pottery gallery in the POW! truck.
Closing Celebration: Spring 2022 Projects
Saturday, June 18, 2022, 11:00 AM-2:00 PM at Egleston Square Library
Join us in celebrating the final projects created by participants of the “Calling Home” Community Art Project and teen artists in the “Message from a Sidewalk” Youth Artist Project!
Closing Celebration: “Who Owns the Past/Present?”
Sunday, May 1, 2022, 4-5:30PM at Goethe-Institut Boston (170 Beacon St, Boston, MA)
Urbano Youth Artists and architect/activist Sergio Beltrán-García will present a collaborative memorial. Come celebrate with us in-person!
Exhibition Opening: Pinpoint Boston
MARCH 18, 2022, 6-7:30PM at Seaport Studio, ICA Boston
Co-produced with ICA Teens, Pinpoint Boston is an exhibition of art by Urbano youth artists created during the “Remember, Reflect, Reimagine: Illustration for Spatial Justice” project with AiR Yuko Okabe. Join us on opening night for food, music, art viewing and artmaking!
2021
SATURDAY AUGUST 21 – SUNDAY AUGUST 22, 2021 | 11:00am-4:00pm
Jamaica Plain, MA
Urbano is excited to participate in this year’s Jamaica Plain Porchfest, a 2-day community arts festival! Stop by our porch at Sam Adams Brewery, located at 30 Germania St. We’ll have prints for sale by international artists and a series of artmaking activities. Come have some fun in the sun with us!
WEDNESDAY, JULY 28, 2021 | 6:30-7:30PM EDT on Zoom
Join recent Artist-in-Residence Gabriel Sosa in conversation with Urbano Staff on his new series of graphite “rubbing” drawings created in public space, which explore ideas of language, identity, community, and audience, and our changing relationships to public space since the COVID-19 pandemic.
THURSDAY, JULY 8, 2021 | 6:00-7:30PM EDT on Zoom
Join Artist-in-Residence Mark Anthony Hernandez Motaghy in conversation with Crown Heights Mutual Aid (CHMA) and Mutual Aid Medford & Somerville (MAMAS) on the future of mutual aid 'pods' and community care.
Event Series: March 31, April 14, April 28, May 11, and May 25, 2021 on Zoom
Curated by Urbano scholar-in-residence Raquel Jimenez, Create, Connect, Catalyze is a series of five community discussions that aims to create space to understand, reflect on, and chart new courses of civic change through the arts. Sessions are March 31 - May 25 and hosted by eight trailblazing artist-educators.
Wednesday, April 21, 2021 | 6:30-8:00PM ET on Zoom
Youth Artists will present their artwork created over the course of this Youth Artist Project, followed by an artist talk and Q&A with Artist-in-Residence Sam Richardson.
“WE HEAL” Closing Celebration
Friday, March 19, 2021 | 6:30-8:00pm on Zoom
Join us for the premiere of a mini-documentary co-produced by lead artist Nora Valdez and Donte Thomas sharing “WE HEAL” participants' stories and experiences, as well as for the presentation of the "WE HEAL" book showcasing participants’ artwork.