Chorus Program at the Tilden Campus

22 Dec 2010, 1:37 PM by Lisa LH

The Urban Arts Choral Program at the Tilden Campus, led by teaching artist Taione Martinez, introduces students to a wide range of choral literature, from early Baroque to Modern Gospel and Vocal Jazz.  Students are learning vocal technique and pedagogy, as well as basic concepts of music theory and history.  Basic sight singing and vocalise are being explored by employing the music educational techniques of the “Zoltan Kodaly Method”.

Here are students from CAAS (Community Arts and Science Academy) working on their music theory problems.

Here is Chelsie singing the opening solo section of the song "He Still Loves Me" from the movie The Fighting Temptations.

Keep up the good work!!

A New Perspective

01 Oct 2010, 1:59 PM by UrbanArtsAdmin

This summer and fall Urban Arts ran a special program. Trump Hotel Soho asked a handful of Urban Arts advanced photographers to shoot Manhattan for a unique contest, "A New Perspective," downtown through the eyes of teenagers. The hotel will be choosing twelve images to print on postcards! An exciting opportunity, these students took the task to heart and had a blast capturing images. One young woman said, "its such a different New York when you are looking through a camera." It sure is. Check out some of their images below!
 

New Design High School Photography & Identity : Portrait Stencils

07 Jun 2010, 11:56 AM by Bami

 More to come

New Design High School Photography & Identity : POP Portraits

07 Jun 2010, 11:55 AM by Bami

 Stay tuned

New Design High School Photography & Identity : Composition & Vantage Point

07 Jun 2010, 11:30 AM by Bami

After returning back from a restful winter break the second group of first year design students explored photographic composition and vantage point. Composition refers to where the photographer places the subject in the frame. For example the subject can be in the center, left, or right of the frame. Vantage point refers to the location of the camera in relation to the subject. The photographer can hold the camera above the subject, below the subject and anywhere in between.

We looked at the work of various photographers and examined how they use the camera to tell a story. The purpose of the activity was to teach students that there were an infinite number of ways that a subject could be composed in a photo frame. The activity also gave them the chance to experience that they too could construct a more powerful photograph by first considering what they wanted the photograph to communicate about themselves to their audience.