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The Artist Commune Journal Celebrates Care, Culture, and Justice

By Anisa Mohamed

Urban Arts Space is proud to launch the Artist Commune Journal, a community arts publication. The inaugural issue—centered on the theme of Care/Culture/Justice—amplifies twenty-five different…

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Tyiesha Radford Shorts Selected as Next Urban Arts Space Community Artist-in-Residence

By Maya Mercer

History, art, and activism converge in the works of Urban Arts Space’s newest Community Artist-in-Residence, Tyiesha Radford Shorts. The UAS Community Artist-in-Residence…

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A Summer of Multisensory Expression at Urban Arts Space

By Sarah Jenkins

Love, grief, resilience, and dance: these universal themes can shape our most transformative summers. For the summer of 2025, we welcome you to explore these themes through the five…

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Design Is Resistance

By Kayanaat Chaudhry

Design is inherently political through its unique ability to change the social, cultural, economic, and structural systems of our lives, so why do we limit the job of a designer to something…

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Vessels in Red: Experiencing Color Through Medium, Metaphor, Memory

By Kat Gallaugher

The upcoming Urban Arts Space exhibition Vessels in Red boldly invites the audience to feel without fear—unapologetically and without restraint. Through a landscape of red-toned multimedia…

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The Vibrancy of “Syd Solomon: Concealed and Revealed” at the National Veterans Memorial and Museum

By Kat Gallaugher

"Can I catch all flying things, arrest them, and not stop them, heaven by design, and not by Raphael or Poussin, by me and painted air, all things moving in my sky…" wrote Syd Solomon in a poem in…

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Dr. Terron Banner Receives Community Engaged Practitioner Award

By Chloe Limputra

Dr. Terron Banner has served as Urban Art Space’s Manager of Community Learning and Experience for over three years. From live events to virtual exhibitions, Dr. Banner’s presence has been vital…

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DALL-E: AI at the Intersection of Art and Technology

By Kate Ortiz

If you ask the AI system DALL-E to generate an Impressionist oil painting of sunflowers in a purple vase, the results surprisingly vary wildly. With results ranging from blue vases to yellow…

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A Seat at the Table: Exhibition Honoring Black Creativity and History

Urban Arts Space is excited to share that our inaugural Community Artist-in-Residence, Arris' Cohen, and our Manager of Community Learning and Experience, Dr. Terron Banner, will be exhibiting in…