The Urban Legend

The School Newspaper of Urban School of San Francisco

The Urban Legend

The School Newspaper of Urban School of San Francisco

The Urban Legend

Students in the Drawing/Mixed Media art class in 2021. Photo credit: Kate Randall.

Quantifying creativity: should Urban grade art classes?

Eliot Solomon, Staff Writer October 16, 2021

Art is subjective, so naturally, it is difficult to grade. Since its founding, Urban has been well known for the arts and has a wide range of art classes. Therefore, grading art is taken very seriously....

Mason Hunts stone.

Behind Urban’s unique stonecarving class

Clementine Daniel, Staff Writer November 7, 2018

If you find yourself in the garden at 11am on a Monday morning, you’ll hear the rhythmic tapping of chisels on stone and the intermittent chirping of birds. You’ll see 14 sophomores, juniors, and...

Alumni pursue careers in the arts

Katherine Weltzien, Editor of News October 24, 2017

Alums of The Urban School, Jenny Assaf (‘16) and Shannon Finnegan (‘07) have worked to pursue careers in the visual arts since graduating high school. Both women developed interests in visual arts...

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