Studio in A School Association

The residency program provides customized visual arts instruction that serves designated classes, offers specific art media, or addresses the needs of particular students, such as multilingual learners or students with disabilities. Ranging from 6 to 20 weeks, residencies serve students both during and after School. Studio artist instructors provide hands-on visual art instruction for students as well as teacher and family engagement in the visual arts. Due to the pandemic in 2022, instruction was mostly in person. in 2021-22, Studio nyc served 21,060 students, 155 residencies, 142 sites and 1,142 teachers across all of our programs.

Several out-of-school teen programs focus on middle and high School students and are designed to build teens' capacity as artists and as participants in the arts. Artist instructors, college mentors, and staff support teens' internship experiences with community-based organizations and cultural institutions. Teens develop pre-college skills, college art portfolios, and applications. Programs included are Studio intensives, A series of advanced visual arts workshops offered free on saturdays and during School breaks; and the teen apprenticeship program and bloomberg arts internship program, which provide cultural workplace experience, build life and career skills, and provide paid summer employment.

The long-term program establishes sequential, standards-based visual arts curricula in nyc public schools which lack visual arts instruction. Partner schools have title i status, make A 5-year commitment, and dedicate A space for the art Studio. The artist instructor embeds the visual arts into the curriculum and culture of the School through instruction across grades in diverse art media, professional development and family workshops, and school-wide exhibitions. in 2021-22 the program worked with 23 schools citywide, serving up to 7,700 students and 483 teachers.