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| Urban Arts Partnership Information |
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| Darcie Rowan |
Phone: 718-336-0716
URL: http://www.urbanarts.org
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Urban Arts Partnership(formerly known as Working Playground), founded in 1991 as a not-for-profit cultural organization based on the belief that art is essential to human development, education and culture, provides arts education and integration programs to underserved schools and communities throughout New York City. Urban Arts Partnership currently partners with 45 underserved schools: impacting more than 10,000 students annually with the mission of strengthening underserved public schools by providing arts-based solutions to urban educational issues.
For over 17 years, the Urban Arts Partnership’s community-based in-school and after-school programs have taught New York City’s youth to develop the creative and analytic impulses that serve them as academic achievers, budding professionals, and active citizens through a range of quality arts-based projects designed to empower participating youth and their communities. The organization has honed its original methodology for K-12 arts instruction and academic integration through model programs connected to today’s issues and concerns, utilizing a dynamic range of art forms that include theater, animation, film, photography, fashion & product design, instrument-building, dance performance, poetry and the visual arts. |
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