This Boston Fashion Designer Is Championing The Environment Through Her Work

Cabbage, avocado peels, tumeric - these are the types of materials that Nathalia JMag uses to create custom clothes. Organic fabric and natural dyes are essential to her eco-friendly approach to fashion design. This summer she's an artist-in-residence at the Urbano Project in Jamaica Plain.

Nathalia JMag’s Map This: Sustainable Fashion Featured in Art Fix Daily

Nathalia JMag's 'Map This: Sustainable Fashion' at Urbano Project Gallery, June 6-August 30

BOSTON, Massachusetts / May 16, 2019 Urbano Project welcomes Artist-in-Residence Nathalia JMag , a Colombian-American contemporary fashion designer who believes in sustainable and ethical approaches to apparel. Her work centers the intersection of design and eco-sustainability alongside an internal reimagining of the factory-labor driven fashion industry.

Urbano Project presents Nora Valdez: Together Alone, Alone Together

Alone Together, Together Alone, an exhibition of artist Nora Valdez's work, and Still We Rise, a multimedia installation by Urbano Youth Artists, both open at Urbano on Wednesday, June 13, with the celebration beginning at 6PM. The exhibitions will remain on view through August 16. Urbano is loc...

Trump budget is a death warrant for the arts - The Boston Globe

FOR THE SECOND budget cycle in a row, Donald Trump is attempting to eliminate the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

"Immigrants are the backbone of this country"

Artist Nora Valdez and the Boston community are sharing their stories one suitcase at a time at The Urbano Project.

Immigration Nation: "Immigrants are the backbone of this country"

Artist Nora Valdez and youth in the Boston community are sharing their stories one suitcase at a time at The Urbano Project. At U-LAB Music we documented their process as part of our 'Immigrant Sounds' series.

Immigration Nation by Nora Valdez

Painted suitcases reflect immigrant experience

Immigration Nation

Students, artists and community members created over 400 hand-painted suitcases for Nora Valdez's "Immigration Nation" exhibit at Urbano Project. On display through July 29, the tactile, sculptural installation confronts the struggle of immigrants to find identity and acceptance in the United States.

Immigration Nation at Urbano Project featured in Boston Globe's Arts events of the week

The Ticket: Arts events this week - The Boston Globe

MUSIC Advertisement CLOUD CULT Last year this Minnesota indie-pomp octet got in on the visual album game with "The Seeker," a one-hour grapple with life's big questions starring Josh Radnor ("How I Met Your Mother") and Alex McKenna.

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Urbano Project Hosts Music, Poetry and Art Series at Librería Donceles

Urbano Project Hosts Music, Poetry and Art Series at Librería Donceles

Urbano Project is pleased to announce a series of bilingual salon-like gatherings to be held at Librería Donceles, a participatory art installation and meeting place for the community in JP's Brewery Complex. Events include an homage to Puerto Rican poet Julia de Burgos on Feb. 17th, a perfor

The only librería in town

Going to the librería - The Boston Globe

New York artist Pablo Helguera's secondhand bookstore, Librería Donceles, seems particularly well-suited for Boston, a city known for its literary leanings. The traveling art project, comprising more than 10,000 volumes spanning numerous genres, opens Friday for an 11-week run at the art studio Urbano in Jamaica Plain and will provide visitors with a unique experience: Organizers say it will be the only bookstore in town devoted to used Spanish-language titles.

A Traveling Art Installation Brings Spanish-Language Books To Boston

A Traveling Art Installation Brings Spanish-Language Books To Boston

Walk into Librería Donceles and you see a normal used bookstore, massive stacks of books and a cash register up front. But underneath the books, it's an interactive art display, a performance space that's as much about the books as it is about living Latino culture.

Boston’s Only Spanish Language Used Bookstore, Librería Donceles, Opens at Urbano Project in JP

Boston's Only Spanish Language Used Bookstore, Libreria Donceles, Opens at Urbano Project in JP

Urbano Project will present Librería Donceles, a socially-engaged art project consisting of an itinerant bookstore of more than 10,000 used books in Spanish. While in residence at Urbano, the participatory art installation will be a meeting place for the community, hosting a series of bilingual salo