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Thank you to the many supporters who made a charitable donation during our year-end appeal.   Your contributions send a strong message that the arts - and our programs in particular -  are vital to the education, health and positive development of the more than 1000 youth we serve in Providence.
Highlander Charter School and CityArts receive a grant from RISCA to create a community newspaper by youth
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What is real news? What is opinion vs.  factual news? How do we tell our stories, and whose stories get told?

There are many ways our stories get told. Thanks to a grant from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts,
from The fin de siècle newspaper proprietor / F. Opper. 1897
students from  Highlander Charter School, and Providence CityArts will have the opportunity to explore these questions through a multimedia technology, art, and communications project that explores storytelling about  school, home, communities, and other issues that are important in children's lives today.

As part of the collaboration, two high school students from Highlander, and two CityArts high school alumni will  work with CityArts teaching artists, and writer/journalist and multimedia artist, Reza Clifton. Veteran newspaper reporters will also volunteer their time: Mary Murphy, retired photo editor at The Providence Journal, and Jonathan Saltzman, investigative reporter at The Boston Globe, will be available as "consultants" to the project.

The project will explore the important role of the news media in history and today. Youth will investigate what is the role of the writer and artist in speaking "truth?"  Youth will create  their own true stories while learning about a variety of technology and media - photos, essays, poems, comics, drawings, videos, and audio stories. The project culminates in a series of online and print "newspapers" imagined and written by students.

CityArts alumna, and current St. Mary's Academy Bay View senior, Neomy Delacruz, will lead a panel conversation about feminism art and social justice, next Thursday at 5:30pm

"Fuerza" by Tamara Diaz
Please join Noemy and a panel of youth and adult artists on January 25 from 5:30-7:30pm at Providence CityArts/Highlander Charter School gallery, 891 Broad Street in 
Providence. 
 
The discussion is part of CityArts' exhibition, "Feeding Her Fire" that
"Supergirl" by Nicole, student at Roger Williams Middle School
 explores how art can be a platform and medium for females to "speak their truth" and to tell oppressors of every form that  "their time is up."

The hour-long conversation is with Shey Rivera, Tamara Diaz, Michelle Nugent,  Caitlin Gomes and young artists, ages 10-14, who attend Providence CityArts classes.The event is free and open to the public but registration is requested through EventBrite .


CityArts teaching artist and multimedia artist, Kourtnie Alieri, aka wacklikethat, curates exhibition 
CityArts Teaching Artist Kourtnie Alieri, aka  wacklikethat curates "School's Out" an exhibit of youth art at Jamestown Art Center

Opening Reception: Friday,  January 19, 2018 6:00 pm  - 8:00 pm

Exhibition Dates: January 19, 2018 - February 24, 2018

School's Out continues Jamestown Arts Center's tradition of hosting a Community Outreach Exhibition each January. In 2018 five regional, award-winning, after-school art programs will exhibit work created by their participants. Along with CityArts youth from AS220, FabNewport, New Urban Arts, and Riverzedge Arts will show their work. 

This invitational show asks each organization to choose artwork from their own community programs that highlight the extraordinary work that is created but, seldom seen outside their own venues.  A percentage of the proceeds of artwork sold benefits these five organizations.The exhibition continues through February 24. For more information click here.
 

New murals and art work around town - thanks to the CityArts AmeriCorps team and the Corporation for National Community Service

AmeriCorps teaching artists not only teach in schools, but they contribute to making Providence beautiful in many other ways. Most recent murals and art works have been hung at the Providence Community Health Center, Del Sesto Middle School, and the Sackett Street Recreation Center.

These pieces, sponsored by CNCS/AmeriCorps, and the Providence Community health Center were designed by Caitlin Gomes, AmeriCorps Coordinator, Chloe Hohlmann, AmeriCorps teaching artist, and a team of AmeriCorps members and young artists from CityArts.

Sackett Street Rec Center mural created by CityArts AmeriCorps team as part of their MLK Day service project.

Please continue to support CityArts




Contributions from individuals help keep our programs running. This year your support will help pay for our programs such as


 
 


 
  


 

gallery exhibits for 20 community artists

 

professional development for 50 emerging and veteran teaching artists

 

employment opportunities for 15 creative teens and young adults

 

arts learning opportunities for thousands of public elementary and middle school youth



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