The Urbano Project

The Urbano Project Urbano fosters participatory art for personal transformation, community care, and social change.

For the past 10 weeks, Artist-in-Residence, Maria Fong, has been using comic-making to guide highschool-age students in ...
03/27/2025

For the past 10 weeks, Artist-in-Residence, Maria Fong, has been using comic-making to guide highschool-age students in reflecting upon choice and agency in their lives through “Chapters of Choice.” A program Urbano has been proud to host with our friends, Unbound Visuals Arts, at their Overlook Gallery in Brighton (175 Washington Street), and one that we’re proud to be hosting a final showcase event for this Saturday.

Join us in flipping through the voices, choices, decisions our students have illustrated onto paper. Students will present this collection of comics and zines they have written, drawn and produced. They will also lead creative activities for the open public.

RSVP link in bio!

When/Where/Admission:
• When: Saturday, March 29th, 2025, 4:30pm - 6:00pm
• Where: Unbound Visual Arts’ Overlook Gallery – 175 Washington St, Brighton, MA 02135
• Admission: Free and open to the public.
• Features: Family-friendly environment with snacks and interactive art activities

For the past four weeks, our cohort of creative cartographers have been workshopping an understanding of their individua...
03/25/2025

For the past four weeks, our cohort of creative cartographers have been workshopping an understanding of their individual worlds as well as their shared worlds – physical or imaginary – through conversation, as well as collaging and collaborative drawing. Charting a reality for themselves and their community into a map that will be unveiled TODAY at 5:00pm at the Egleston Square Branch of the Boston Public Library.

Come and witness the map through the voices of its creators. The map itself will be documented and made available to the public – through Urbano – beyond this final event.

Event Details:
• When: TODAY, from 5:00-5:45pm
• Where: Egleston Square Branch, BPL – 2044 Columbus Ave, Roxbury, MA 02119
• Admission: Free and open to the public.
• Features: Exhibition of collaborative cartography, artist discussions, refreshments

For the past 10 weeks, Artist-in-Residence, Maria Fong, has been using comic-making to guide our young artists in reflec...
03/24/2025

For the past 10 weeks, Artist-in-Residence, Maria Fong, has been using comic-making to guide our young artists in reflecting upon choice and agency in their lives. Through creative storytelling, they’ve been exploring everything from practical career decisions, to pasta sauce making, to cosmic reckonings with the ethers of outer-space (pictured above).

Join us in flipping through the voices, choices, decisions our students have illustrated onto paper at the final event for “Chapters of Choice” this Saturday at Unbound Visual Arts’ Overlook Gallery in Brighton (from 4:30pm to 6pm).

• When: Saturday, March 29th, 2025, 4:30pm - 6:00pm
• Where: Unbound Visual Arts’ Overlook Gallery – 175 Washington St, Brighton, MA 02135
• Admission: Free and open to the public.
• Features: Family-friendly environment with snacks and interactive art activities

At Urbano, we believe in tackling the questions that are relevant whether big or small (like how to nail that yummy past...
03/10/2025

At Urbano, we believe in tackling the questions that are relevant whether big or small (like how to nail that yummy pasta recipe). Did you know our comic-making students (from Maria Fong’s, Youth Artist Project, “Chapters of Choice”) will be having a free showcase later this month? Mark your calendars: Saturday, the 29th from 4:30pm to 6pm at Ubound Visual Arts’ Overlook Gallery (175 Washington Street)!

❗️Applications will be accepted (on a rolling-basis) until February 25th❗️Apply to join Artist-in-Residence, Hernán ‘Nan...
02/21/2025

❗️Applications will be accepted (on a rolling-basis) until February 25th❗️

Apply to join Artist-in-Residence, Hernán ‘Nan’ Joubá, in mapping an understanding of our shared worlds – physical or imaginary – through his upcoming workshop, “Collective Map-Making / Mapas Colectivos.” For total of four-sessions, Hernán, will be guiding folx like yourself in locating story, identity, and understanding through simple visual art techniques like collage and collaborative drawing — a technique he has developed through a project of his own called “Quikuchá.”

Hosted at BPL’s Egleston Square location, “Collective Map-Making / Mapas Colectivos,” is inviting folx age 14+ to map with no requisite of prior art-making.

• When: 4 Tuesdays — March 4th, 11th, 18th and 25th from 3:45-5:45 (2h)

• Where: Egleston Square Branch of the Boston Public Library — 2044 Columbus Ave, Roxbury, MA 02119

• Who(?): This program is intended for people who’d like to share their stories through art making. This space is intergenerational: everyone 14+ is welcome. No prior art-making experience needed. We will accommodate both English and Spanish speakers.

• Cost: Free. Participants will receive a stipend for their participation (up to $120)

• New Application Deadline: February 25th, 2025

LINK IN BIO 🔗

We’re still accepting applications for Hernán ‘Nan’ Joubá’s community map-making workshop, “Collective Map-Making / Mapa...
02/18/2025

We’re still accepting applications for Hernán ‘Nan’ Joubá’s community map-making workshop, “Collective Map-Making / Mapas Colectivos.” For four sessions, graciously hosted by the Boston Public LIbrary, Nan will guide you, alongside others, in both visioning and drafting a map of our shared worlds – physical or imaginary. Helping you use simple visual art techniques like collage and collaborative drawing — a technique he has developed through a project of his own called “Quikuchá” — to visualize interpersonal story and shared understanding.

• When: 4 Tuesdays — March 4th, 11th, 18th and 25th from 3:45-5:45 (2h)
• Where: Egleston Square Branch of the Boston Public Library — 2044 Columbus Ave, Roxbury, MA 02119
• Who(?): This program is intended for people who’d like to share their stories through art making. This space is intergenerational: everyone 14+ is welcome. While you’ve already made art with us, no prior art-making experience needed. We will accommodate both English and Spanish speakers.
• Cost: Free. Participants will receive a stipend for their participation (up to $120)

Apply through the bio!

Urbano is proud to support young artists who see their social practice as a creative practice. All the reason why we’re ...
02/12/2025

Urbano is proud to support young artists who see their social practice as a creative practice. All the reason why we’re particularly excited to be supporting Jassi Murad, a past Urbano participant, in stepping from studentship into teachership through their Artist Workshop, “Cumulus,” THIS Sunday at the Foundry. Through the use of guided language, metaphor, and nature-speak, Jassi, will guide an ensemble of participants in exploring the intersection we can allow ourselves to feel between language and gesture.

• When: Sunday, February 16th — 4:00-6:00 (2h)
• Where: The Foundry, Dance Space — 101 Rogers St, Cambridge, MA 02142
• Who(?): This program is intergenerational: open to everyone 12+. (Slightly younger children are welcome if accompanied by an adult and in good judgement)
• Cost: Free.

A cumulus is a cloud formation; a collection of water v***r unfolding into and onto itself. In this sensory-based worksh...
02/07/2025

A cumulus is a cloud formation; a collection of water v***r unfolding into and onto itself. In this sensory-based workshop on creative embodiment, guided language, metaphor, and nature speak will invite you and your body to respond and unfold into its ‘path of least resistance’ – what you want to become. The search is for space, elevation, and possibility; the workshop is composed of discussion, solitary practices, and group exercises. Come with an open heart and curious mind.

• When: Sunday, February 16th — 4:00-6:00 (2h)
• Where: The Foundry, Dance Space — 101 Rogers St, Cambridge, MA 02142
• Who(?): This program is intergenerational: open to everyone 12+. (Slightly younger children are welcome if accompanied by an adult and in good judgement)
• Cost: Free.

Artist Bio: Urbano alumnus, Jassi Murad, is an inter-disciplinary dance artivist, healer, teacher and student. Native to Jerusalem, Palestine, they perceive art as a means of peaceful archival resistance, and expression as a tool of healing. Practically, their work seeks intersectional liberation through Somatic Abolition and co-creation of imaginative alternative realities.

How do we move through life? And where do we cross paths? They say that digital technology has charted every inch of our...
02/06/2025

How do we move through life? And where do we cross paths? They say that digital technology has charted every inch of our world, but our life-journeys are paths that only each one of us can trace. Join a group of people in exploring what it means to create a map of our own worlds –both physical and imaginary. Artist Hernán Joubá’s will facilitate a subjective map-making process through four sessions using simple visual art techniques like collage and collaborative drawing –a technique he has developed through a project of his own called “Quikuchá”. Come into the library for a hot drink, meet new people, and help create a meaningful work of public art.

• Sessions: Tuesdays — March 4th, 11th, 18th and 25th — 3:45-5:45 (2h)
• Where: Egleston Square Branch of the Boston Public Library — 2044 Columbus Ave, Roxbury, MA 02119
• For Who(?): This program is intended for people who’d like to share their stories through art making. This space is intergenerational: everyone 14+ is welcome. No prior art-making experience needed. We will accommodate both English and Spanish speakers.
• Cost: Free. Participants will receive a stipend for their participation (up to $120)
• Application Deadline: February 18, 2025

About the artist: Artist in Residence, Hernán (‘Nan’) Jouba (he/him), was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and studied filmmaking in Tokyo. He now lives in Providence (RI) and cultivates an interdisciplinary practice at the intersection of video, theatre and writing, while designing and executing cultural programs. Among other honours, he is a Performing Arts Fellow at “Loba Lab” (Studio Loba & Brown Arts Institute, 2024/25); a MacColl Johnson Fellow in Creative Writing (2022) and a past writer-in-residence at MassMoCA (2021) and Cité Internationale des Artes (France, 2018).

follow the yellow for the comic making, friends! 🟡
01/13/2025

follow the yellow for the comic making, friends! 🟡

apply through the link in our bio, folx!
12/14/2024

apply through the link in our bio, folx!

Applications for “Chapters of Choice,” our new comic-making program, with Artist-in-Residence, Maria Fong, are being acc...
12/09/2024

Applications for “Chapters of Choice,” our new comic-making program, with Artist-in-Residence, Maria Fong, are being accepted until this Sunday (December 15th) at 11:59pm. Apply thru the link in our bio!

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