Join us on Friday, April 26th to celebrate the Living Gallery’s new storefront on Broadway, the last day of the Bring Your Own Art show and to raise funds for Uproar Art’s 2013 programs. Proceeds from the event will specifically defray costs related to  our Visiting Artist Program at PS 273, our free booth at the Go Green! Greenpoint Earth Day Festival and our ongoing classes at The Living Gallery.

The event, starting at 8pm, will feature performances by three local musicians, two of whom have worked with Uproar as teaching artists. Once you’re all warmed up and having a great time, we’ll host a dance party with Philadelphia based Broadzilla DJs spinning all things danceable til 2 AM.

A suggested donation of $15 at the door gets you admission to both the musical performances and the dance party.  We’ll also have drinks and snacks provided by local businesses, like the Industry City Distillery, Brooklyn Salsa and Vegan Treats by Courtney and Shayne to wet your whistle and your appetite. So come one, come all and party for a good cause this spring! We can’t keep offering these amazing programs without your help, so please come drink, dance, celebrate and donate.

Links and information about our performers:

Erica Elishama: We’ll open with new comer Erica Elishama, a Brooklyn-based singer songwriter and renaissance woman, you can learn more about Erica’s
work at her website – www.elegiehouse.com.

Chris Miller and Katherine Harrison: Next up is prolific multi-instrumentalist Chris Miller (A.C. Newman, The Broken Stares, The Revelers), performing as a duo with songwriter Katherine Harrison. Katherine draws on her experience as a literary fiction editor combined with her compelling voice to spin imaginative songs. Chris is also an active writer and blogger  in the NYC music scene, you can learn more about him on his blog -http://www.chrismillersax.com/.

Mikki Hommel: Closing out the performances we have soul singer and comedienne Mikki Hommel – expect improv song writing and love songs featuring a certain feminine hygiene product – in the best way possible!  More on Mikki
here – www.mikkihommel.com.

Broadzilla DJs: https://www.facebook.com/broadzilladjs.

Thanks to everyone who donated to our annual fundraiser.  With your help, we were able to raise $1050 for our programs!  This money will go directly to providing artist stipends, scholarships, materials and bilingual teaching assistants’ salaries for our classes.  We are so grateful to you.  Here is your honorable mention on our website!  Thanks also to those who prefer to remain anonymous!

Rochelle Thomas

Susan DeJarnatt

Michael Doherty

The Goodman/Piche Family

Stefani Bardin

The Husted Family

Aline Kovacs

Eva Gladstein

Susan Ruddick

Michael Nolter

Aaron Lampell

Laurence Murphy

Judy and Paul Fardig

Susan McPherson

Corin Wilson

Cynthia Back and David Goodman

Kamal Gorti and Diana Hochner

Andrew Shiue

The Doubleday Family

Meghan and Rob Boyer

Ian Hales

Christine Wang

We can’t do what we do without strong community support, and we can’t thank you enough for helping us carry on.  Thank you for believing in our values, and forwarding art education in our city, it means the world to us – from everyone at Uproar Art.

Hi All, we’ve been busy fund raising, but we wanted to remind you why!  Below are some great snapshots from our recent Winter Class Series at the Living Gallery, and a High School Workshop at the Kurt Hahn Expeditionary Learning School. The Winter Class series finished with a watercolor project, and the high schoolers focused on recycled art, building scarves out of old t-shirts.  You can see more images from these two workshops in our student gallery.  Remember, we can’t keep making this awesome stuff happen without your help!  Donate to Uproar’s funding drive today before the end of the year.  Remember, all donations go directly to our programming and are completely tax deductible.  Just click here to give via IndieGogo, or visit our Donations Page. Thanks in advance, and Happy Holidays!

Hi All!  Help Uproar keep thriving in 2013 by contributing to our annual funding drive!  This year we’re raising money to expand our Visiting Artists Program, and to offer full scholarships to kids in need for our extra curricular classes. Help us out and donate today – and, bonus, you don’t have to have a paypal account like the regular donation button on this page – you can donate with just a credit card. AND, did I mention there are rewards?  Get your own thank you card, gourmet cookie collection, or even custom jewelry!  Let’s make it happen!  Click this LINK for more details, and thanks in advance.

Uproar Art has been nominated by two websites – greatnonprofits.org and The Red Tricycle – for awards!  Please help us get the word out about the great services we provide for the community!

Thanks to everyone who came out to our free Open House at the Living Gallery last weekend!  We had a blast building masks and costumes with you.  We hope you enjoyed meeting some of our instructors and volunteers from Uproar, The Living Gallery and Arts in Bushwick.  If you missed it, check out the photos below to see what a great time we had, plus there are more in the Gallery section of our website.

We hosted this Open House to welcome you to our new studio space, and just in time to sign up for fall and winter classes, you can find all the information about our classes here and can sign up via phone, email, or at CourseHorse online.  We hope to see you there for more fantastic art making…til then have a Happy Halloween!

Two Princesses!

A budding police officer...

Face painting with volunteers from Arts in Bushwick.

Director Max Goodman helping to build the gown of a goddess....

Batman, literally.

Another satisfied mask maker

Closing out the day in finished masks.

In addition to the usual phone and email registration (check our Contact page for details) did you know you can now sign up for Uproar Classes online??!!

Check out our listing at Course Horse to register for our new fall and winter class series at the Living Gallery in the Loom.  All the details are here at this link!

Hi All, as noted in our last update, we will be hosting classes with our new Studio Partners, The Living Gallery! If you haven’t already heard, please check out our Open House on October 20th for free art making activities, class registration and refreshments.

Today, though, we wanted to share some more details with you about our upcoming winter classes.  We’re hosting two sessions of 4 week long art classes. Though all ages are welcome, these classes are best for elementary aged students (7 – 12 years old).  Each session will feature new projects, like those listed in our classes section, but will cross media boundaries.  Expect painting, sculpture, jewelry and more!    All classes will run on Fridays from 4 til 5:30 pm. Pricing is on a sliding scale – inquire directly via email (uproarart@gmail.com) to fill out our pricing survey, and see if your family qualifies for a discount.  Full price, the class will cost $110.

Here are the dates:

Session 1:  11/30, 12/7, 12/14, 12/21
Session 2:  1/11, 1/18, 1/25, 2/1

To register, simply send us an email at uproarart@gmail.com with Registration in the subject line, and your child’s name and age. We’ll respond with a simple form that you can fill out to hold your space.  Registration closes one week before the start date of any session, and we will cap each class at 8 students, so register early to ensure there’s a spot for you.

And just to remind you one more time, you can definitely register in person at our Open House, check out all the details below!

Hi everyone, we hope you’re starting the school year off right!  We’re very excited planning our next class series with new studio partners, The Living Gallery.  Located conveniently on Flushing avenue in a bustling arts and retail center, the Loom, the Living Gallery coexists alongside a yoga studio, salon, coffee shop and food co-op, so there’s plenty for parents to do while kids enjoy a one-of-a-kind Uproar art class.

To kick off the winter class series, we’ll be hosting an Open House on Saturday, October 20th from 12 – 3pm. We’ll be offering free art making activities for all ages, including Mask Making, Halloween Costume building and more! We’ll also be serving light refreshments.  Anyone who attends the Open House will receive a coupon for %15 off our next class series. Our instructors will be on hand to answer questions and meet with parents.  So come one come all and check out our new digs, we’re so excited, and we know you will be too!

As a side note, you can catch our Instructor/Director , Max Goodman, at the DIY tent in Maker Faire this year, hosting a free art making activity with our friends at Kollabora.  If you don’t already know about them, check out this free patterns and projects-based website, which offer inspiration, education and materials for all your crafting needs.  If you’re in the NYC area and haven’t come to Maker Faire in the past, we cannot recommend it highly enough, truly fun for the whole family – from science to food to fine art to crafts, there is something for everyone.  Check out this year’s at the New York Hall of Science in Queens, and make sure you head there on Saturday to catch Max’s workshop in the afternoon.