Underground Runway Scholarship is a non-profit organization located in Oakland, CA. Art and fashion based, we provide educational programming for unsigned and under recognized talent. Engaging with UGRW programming, students are presented with short and long term strategies for personal and professional growth as well as portfolio development. Highly dedicated to the fashion industry, UGRW collaborations involve all sectors of creative industries, including the arts and design. As a means to fully immerse participants, UGRW manages every aspect of fashion productions or projects from artistic design, production design, and venue hire through casting, location scouting, technical support, and budgeting-real exposure to industry applicable solutions with a tailored edge.
UGRW is a platform of continuous educational and career oriented opportunities in the form of small projects and large networked productions. This includes training in modeling technique, choreography and music arrangements for fashion show scenes, coordination of models, the make-up artists, photographers, light and sound, as well as TFP photo shoots of various concepts.
Collaborations include Artists, youth and students from San Francisco City College, Mills College, FIDM, SF Academy of the Arts, Laney College, Merritt College and Berkeley City College. Under recognized artists are able to share their work and mentor students. Founded in 2013, Underground Runway fosters an environment that encourages collaboration through a culture of intentional sharing of resources and skill.
UGRW is a platform of continuous educational and career oriented opportunities in the form of small projects and large networked productions. This includes training in modeling technique, choreography and music arrangements for fashion show scenes, coordination of models, the make-up artists, photographers, light and sound, as well as TFP photo shoots of various concepts.
Collaborations include Artists, youth and students from San Francisco City College, Mills College, FIDM, SF Academy of the Arts, Laney College, Merritt College and Berkeley City College. Under recognized artists are able to share their work and mentor students. Founded in 2013, Underground Runway fosters an environment that encourages collaboration through a culture of intentional sharing of resources and skill.
"We are all a resources to each other"
Underground Runway Scholarship is a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a non‐profit arts service organization. Contributions for the charitable purposes of UGRW must be made payable to Fractured Atlas and are tax ‐ deductible to the extent permitted by law