Projects

Urbano’s community is made up of artists of all ages engaged in dialogue with their audience through participatory works of art and performance. Urbano’s corps of youth and community artists learn to make connections between creative thinking, self discovery, and citizenship. Our goal is to promote civic engagement through works of art that address the major issues of our times.

Artists in Residence

Our Artists in Residence have spent time at the Urbano Project teaching classes, facilitating workshops, and presenting their own work in our gallery space. Our team at Urbano has handpicked individuals to fill this position as we bring local youth and professional artists together to ignite social change through place-based artmaking.

Youth Artist Projects (YAP)

Each semester there is a program dedicated to working with teen artists in creating exhibition artwork. This class will be led by an Artist-in-Residence or another professional practicing artist. Classes focus on one style of art, to give Youth Artists the chance to explore different types of art over time.

Workshops

Teaching Artists introduce cohorts of 10-15 teen artists to artmaking related to their practice. Workshops are stand-alone, 4-hour events typically lasting 1 - 3 days.

Community Art Projects (CAP)

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.

Apprentices

Apprentices have each been involved with Urbano for at least five years and have transitioned through the program from Youth Artist to Fellow and now Apprentice. This role engages these artists in the inner workings of Urbano as they work alongside fellow staff to learn more about their own personal interests such as digital, media, installation, and programmatic roles.

Urbano’s Apprentice program is currently inactive.