Register for our 2024-25 Fall/Winter Studio Programs!

Registration is now open for our free 2024-25 Fall/Winter After School Studio Programs! Programs start on October 21st and continue through March 21st for students ages 14-21. No experience neccessary! 

We're offering four programs this year:

• Portfolio: Making Art that MatterS 
  • Mondays, 4-7pm
    
    • This program supports students in developing their artistic practice and honing techniques to focus and strengthen their unique voices. Throughout the sessions, youth will explore the intersections of identity politics, systems of oppression, and create impactful imagery with a clear vision and narrative. The Portfolio class underscores the power of personal expression to promote critical thinking and foster postivie change. 
• Voices Her'd: Community Project
  • Tuesdays, 4-7pm
    • This program explores how artistic expression can be used to encourage personal and societal transformation. This community mural project creates an intentional space for young women and gender-expansive youth to connect with an intergenerational group of women living with HIV, who use art to reduce stigma, build community, and foster empowerment. They will work with the Visual AIDS Women's Empowerment Group. 

• Murals for Change: Community Project
  • Wednesdays, 4-7pm
    • This program allows students to immerse themselves in a collective mural project that uplifts a social justice issue within a specific community. Participants will work with the Center for Social Capital (SoCa) through the Weill Cornell Medicine Center to research, design and fabricate a mural that uplofts SoCa's mission to reduce cancer health inequities. As part of the overarching process, students will research the history of injustice facing a community and design an artwork that depicts a clear vision for the future. 
• Print Power
  • Thursdays, 4-6pm
    
    • This program teaches youth the fundamentals of printmaking through its relationship to social movements in the last century. Print Power introduces participants to community resources, and culturally relevant printmakers to inspire personal applications of the art form. Throughout the program, student voice is highlighted and uplifted to bring light to the pressing social justice issues of our time, such a economic inequality, migrant, gender, and racial justice. 

Click here to register now!