Art and Recreation Programs
ArtsLiteracy Project |
Flow Radio |
ArtsLiteracy Project
The ArtsLiteracy Project (ArtsLit) is dedicated to developing the literacy of youth through the performing and visual arts. Based in the Education Department at Brown, ArtsLit gathers an international community of artists, teachers, youth, college students, and professors with the goal of collaboratively creating innovative approaches to literacy development through the arts.
Contact
Kurt Wootton, Director
ArtsLiteracy Project
401-863-7017
Kurt_Wootton@brown.edu
Community Outreach through the Performing Arts (COPA)
COPA uses the arts to build community through after-school classes at Providence Housing Authority sites. Teams of Brown volunteers teach workshops in creative writing, dance, theater, and the visual arts. With the conviction that effective teaching is an art form, volunteers work as a community of teachers and learners.
Flow Radio
Flow Radio provides teenagers with the opportunity to learn about radio broadcasting through the production of a one-hour weekly radio show on issues important to local youth. Participants develop hands-on skills and an understanding of media.
Contact
Howard Swearer Center for Public Service
401-863-2338
OLEEP - Outdoor Leadership and Environmental Education Project
OLEEP, a partnership with the MET School, facilitates the development of high school student leadership by connecting experiences in the wilderness and in the city. Through one-on-one mentoring, weekly workshops in the school and community, and camping, backpacking and ropes course trips, the program develops individual awareness and skills as well as a community in which Brown and MET students learn from each other.
Contact
Howard Swearer Center for Public Service
401-863-2338
Project Eye-To-Eye
Project Eye-To-Eye pairs learning disabled Brown students with learning disabled children from the Vartan Gregorian Elementary School. The pairs share experiences, offer academic support and engage in art activities.
Contact
Howard Swearer Center for Public Service
401-863-2338
SummerPrep
SummerPrep is a three-week summer enrichment program for approximately 100 urban elementary students, located at the Community Preparatory School in South Providence. Students attend the morning academic enrichment program free of charge and are enrolled in classes of up to 18 students in rising grades 2 through 6. Classes are taught by a team of two Brown MAT students who are supervised by a Mentor teacher. The curriculum developed by the MATs, with the help of Brown elementary MAT methods instructors and Mentor teachers, includes instruction in community building and leadership, literacy, math, science, performance and visual arts and physical education. Admission to the program is on a first-come, first-served basis, with students primarily coming from Providence and others from Pawtucket, Central Falls and Cranston.
Contact
Polly Ulichny, Senior Lecturer and Director of Elementary Education
Education Department
401-863-3487
Polly_Ulichny@brown.edu
Youth-led Media
The Injury Prevention Center works with local youth to create injury prevention media components, such as newspaper inserts, billboards, movie theater ads and bus shelter ads. All works are developed by youth, for youth with many pieces reaching thousands of individuals. The IPC has had multiple contests within Providence schools to develop injury prevention posters with the winners becoming billboards within the city. The IPC, through a grant from the Mayor’s office, is currently leading a group of young artists in developing movie theater ads and bus shelter ads directed at youths on substance abuse and injury prevention.
Contact
Injury Prevention Center
401-444-2685