Urban Assembly School of Music and Art

Hello UAMA Familes,

During our last PTA meeting, we hosted a paint night for parents. Some of our paintings are below. We are hosting another paint night on May 27, 2021. If you are interested in attending, please reach out to Ms.Copeland at copeland1@uamusicandart.org.

Parent Teacher Conferences will be taking place in the today in the evening from 5:00PM – 8:00PM and tomorrow in the afternoon from 1:00PM – 3:00PM. Please click the links below to register for the day you can attend. After registering, you should be sent an email with the link to join the room.

• Register for PTC Evening – March 18th, 2021, 5:00PM – 8:00PM
• Register for PTC Afternoon – March 19th, 2021, 1:00PM – 3:00PM

There will also be a NYCSA Registration event taking place prior to Parent Teacher Conferences. With a NYCSA Account, you will be able to keep tabs on your students grades, attendance, and sign the COVID consent form. We will be helping parents create these account at these registrations events. Please register for these events from the links below.

• Register for NYCSA Registration – March 18th 2021, 4:00PM – 5:00PM
• Register for NYCSA Registration – March 19th, 2021, 12:00PM – 1:00PM

If you need further assistance, please reach out to your parent coordinator, Ms. Copeland, at copeland1@uamusicandart.org.

Before UAMA ever opened its doors to students, the school’s planning team identified James Baldwin’s, “The Fire Next Time,” as a grounding text that exemplified our school’s missions and would serve as a touchstone for all of our students over their course of study at UAMA. Excerpts of Baldwin’s novels, plays, and essays are literally printed on the walls at UAMA and reverberate through all aspects of our curriculum.

In the tradition of artistic collaboration that UAMA works to foster with our students, in the Fall of 2016, Principal Paul Thompson was invited to join a collective of artists, poets, writes and musicians in a musical theatrical tribute to James Baldwin. “Can I Get a Witness? The Gospel of James Baldwin,” created by 11-time Grammy nominated musician Meshell Ndegeocello, debuted in December 2016 at the Harlem Stage in Harlem, New York and was subsequently adapted in 2018 as, “No More Water | The Fire Next Time”, for the Park Avenue Armory and in 2019 as part of a group exhibition at the David Zwirner gallery in New York, entitled, “God Made My Face: A Collective Portrait of James Baldwin,” by writer Hilton Als.

In the Fall of 2020 the Fisher Center at Bard along with UCLA’s Center For The Art of Performance, The Museum Of Contemporary Art Chicago, Kenny Leon’s True Colors Theatre, and Festival De Marseille, commissioned a multi- media interpretation of the piece, “Chapter & Verse: The Gospel of James Baldwin”, as a 21st century ritual tool kit for justice. A call for revolution. A gift during turbulent times caused by political unrest and the world-wide pandemic. Chapter & Verse includes audio, video, and print components which have engaged audiences around the world and provide a lens for confronting the painful, complex societal challenges we face today.

As we have worked to meet the challenges of supporting our students through remote instruction, our staff have used these works as direct inspiration to drive instruction and as a vehicle to what is possible as we design student deliverables. We encourage you to explore, “Chapter & Verse: The Gospel of James Baldwin”.

Join us on Thursday, February 25th at 6:00pm to meet some of our staff, and learn more about the programs we offer! Sign up here to receive the Zoom information to join those sessions.

Meanwhile, head on over to our recruitment site to learn more information!

Today is the day you have been waiting for! Join us at 9:00 am or 6:00 pm to meet some of our staff, and learn more about the programs we offer! Sign up here to receive the Zoom information to join those sessions.

Meanwhile, head on over to our recruitment site to learn more information!

The Bard Early College Academy at the Urban Assembly School of Music and Art Bard@UAMA

The Bard Early College Academy at the Urban Assembly School of Music and Art (UAMA) enables UAMA students in 11th and 12th grade to enroll as part-time undergraduate students of Bard College and earn tuition-free college credits concurrently with their high school studies. Participating students take a liberal arts college course of study that aims to intellectually engage UAMA students and help them prepare for and succeed in college.

The Bard Early College Academy establishes an academic extension of Bard College at the UAMA. College courses are taught by Bard Early College faculty, and take place on the UAMA campus within the UAMA course schedule. Additionally, students participate in field trips, including conferences and academic events on the Bard College campus in Annandale-on-Hudson, and joint programming with Bard’s other early colleges in the tri-state area. Upon completion of the Bard Seminar sequence, UAMA students have the opportunity to earn as much as a semester of Bard College credits, tuition-free.

Please fill out the form below to receive more information (or click here if you cannot see the form):
Urban Assembly School of Music and Art

49 Flatbush Extension Brooklyn, New York 11201 718.858.0249

Below is the schedule for afterschool programs happening weekly. All students are welcome to participate in these activities.