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At the Studio:Teaching Artist Gallery Show and More
It's at 14 minute ride on the R bus from Kennedy Plaza to 891 Broad Street, so please join us this March for the following workshops and exhibitions.
Portrait by Teaching Artist, Javier Nunez


March 2 from 5-7pm: Workshop for Teachers and Artists
Photographer and educator,  Aarav Sundaresh  and CityArts' Core Teaching Artist,  Michelle Nugent  will show ways to teach culturally relevant content to youth, and discuss how curricula inside and outside of a school setting can address social justice themes. Register.

March 8 at 5:30pm: Teaching Artist Show: 2018 Edition
Providence CityArts teaching artists will show off the "art" side of their job as Teaching Artists at an exhibition of their work. Artists include:   Nika Salazar, Michelle Nugent, Javier Nunez, Heidi Born, Zooey Arnold Conner, Josh Gannon-Salomon, Jess Artigliere, Nika Gorini, and Shannon Fogel. More information.

March 29 at 5:30pm: Winter Teach Back
Bring the kids to this hands-on studio and gallery event! Come see our studios in action. This event features artwork from: The Green Book class, created with Brown University students, The Broad Street Journal, developed with a group of four high school students and teaching artist Reza Clifton, and Dungeons and Dragons Role Play. Other classes showing work include old favorites: Clay studio, RISD Fridays, Hip Hop Dance, and It's My World.  Potluck event. Please contact Nika@providencecityarts.org


In the Schools: AmeriCorps Teaching Artists Promote Collaboration with Turnaround Arts, CityYear, and PASA

Theatre artists know that you need a team to put on a show.

The final product: Masks for The Lion King
CityArts AmeriCorps members also know that the arts are perfect avenues to develop team-building skills, empathy, emotional intelligence, and curiosity toward the ideas of others.

This year, our AmeriCorps team is building bridges between school day classes, Providence After School Alliance, and the new Turnaround Arts project through our work on the school musicals - a first-time endeavor at Roger Williams and Del Sesto middle schools.


Students at work
Pictured right and above: CityArts AmeriCorps Teaching Artist, Antonia Lara, an industrial designer from Chile is working with classroom teachers, CityYear members, and the Providence After School Alliance  
to help with Turnaround Arts' production of "
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he Lion
King." 
Antonia and her students are creating masks, costumes, sets, and props for the school musical. For more information, go to the Turnaround Arts site.


Teaching Artist Workshops: CityArts is co-hosting a panel discussion focusing on youth development and play, at Brown University - this Sunday, February 25 beginning at 2pm at Ashamu Dance Studio

CityArts Teaching Artist and Rhythm of Change Producer, Saulo Castillo
What does Grandmaster Flash's cutting, scratching, and mixing music have in common with youth development? It's about "playing." 

Join CityArts, Brown University, and the Rhode Island Teaching Artist Center for a "6x6" event, featuring 6 teaching artists who will present 6 minutes on the element of play in their work, and the opportunities they provide for youth to create new and exciting artistic endeavors. 

After that, you're invited to the Rhythm of Change Festival's "Art of Rhythmix" dance jam with hosts Syde-Sho (Floorlords) and Pierre Boogie (Gr818ers). 

The 6x6 is free and open to the public. For more information.

Help us close a budget gap, and support 21st century skill development for youth in The Creative Capital

We need your help in closing our budget gap for 2017-2018. CityArts is Providence Public School's largest community provider of arts programming -- bringing more than 6,000 hours of arts programs to Providence Middle Schools. Yet, CityArts must pay for much of this programming through its own fund raising efforts.

A new national study found "The majority of roughly 1,200 teachers surveyed (79 percent) said that soft skills - collaboration, critical thinking, communication and creativity - would be key to helping students cope in this unpredictable economy." *

We know that youth in arts programs develop these skills in their art classes, while putting on shows, and when working together on art projects. So please support our work.

*from  "Fostering Exploration and Excellence in 21st Century Schools" a new report by The Economist
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