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Founding Year: 2006
Grades: 6–8 | Grade Active: 6–8 |
225 Adelphi Street
Third Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11205 |
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The Urban Assembly Academy of Arts and Letters emphasizes communication, creativity, and hands-on experience with the arts as vehicles to success in college and life. Rigorous academic study and extended projects in the "real world" prepare young scholars to lead with courage, confidence, creativity, and clarity..
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Students are recruited from four districts (and nineteen zip codes) in Brooklyn, creating a diverse student body representative of the borough.
More than 500 students applied for the 100 places UAAAL's 2008 six grade class.
Dedicated to emerging artists and new work, Mahattan-based theater company Ars Nova works with UAAAL students weekly, exploring a multitude of performance models and exposing students to cutting-edge artists and performances.
Students work with Long Island University professors and students on Making a Legacy, a documentary project recording the founding and growth of UAAAL as an urban public school.
Through our elective program, students have the opportunity to choose from dynamic courses including West African Dance, Martial Arts, Chorus, Yearlong Drama Intensive, Anthropomorphic Sculpture, Drawing with Live Models, Music & Technology, Brooklyn Buckets Drum Line, Basketball, and Tennis.
Over 60% of parents have attended one or more Freestyle Friday evening showcase events.
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Address: 225 Adelphi Street, Third Floor, Brooklyn, NY 11205
Principal: Allison Gaines Pell | (718) 222 1605 | fax (718) 852 6020
Assistant Principal: John O'Reilly
Programs and Development Coordinator: Meghan Joseph | (718) 222 1605 ext. 3042
www.uaaal.org
Ars Nova
Brooklyn Queens Conservatory of Music
Challenge Day
Children's PressLine
Citizen Schools
Long Island University
Marquis Studios
Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Partnership
Radio Rookies of WNYC
Urban Word NYC
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