Urban Arts Partnership works with students throughout the summer in Summer Credit Recovery Programs, summer studio residencies, and advanced summer seminars. This out-of-school time gives teaching artists and students chance to focus exclusively on arts-based projects beyond traditional school-day environments.
Select Urban Arts Partnership students learn more advanced elements of their art form during the summer months, taking advantage of our in-house media lab. Our 2008 summer seminar involved the production of “In My Shoes,” the original Urban Arts Partnership documentary film about teen homelessness.
Students in danger of falling behind academically can take part in an arts-based integration program as an alternative to traditional summer school models. The Heritage School in Spanish Harlem, for example, has run numerous credit recovery classes with us in courses like Photography & Mathematics that have enabled students to graduate on time.
Youth have the opportunity to study an art form more intensively during the summer months through one of Urban Arts Partnership’s summertime collaborations with schools, the Department of Education, and Community-Based Organization partners. A recent summer studio example took place in Queens at Townsend Harris High School, where students wrote and performed their own original poetry, then published their work alongside original photography in a professional-bound journal.