Youth
The Studio Museum is dedicated to creating a safe environment for youth to express themselves creatively. The Museum offers free programs for students outside of the school environment. The programs offer students the opportunity to meet and converse with prominent visual artists, express their ideas in discussions, facilitate tours and hands on workshops, and develop important communication and critical thinking skills.
Expanding the Walls: Making Connections Between Photography, History and Community
Expanding the Walls is an extra curricular program for high school students. Participants use the James VanDerZee archives as a springboard for discussing, making, and learning about art and community. This eight month long workshop series, culminates in an exhibition of the students works at The Studio Museum.
ARTLooks: A Day In The Life of an Artist
ArtLooks is designed to support high school students who are interested in the visual arts. This program includes introductions to professional artists within the Harlem and larger New York City community, one-on-one portfolio reviews, and visits to other art programs at cultural institutions throughout the city.
Hands On: Art Making Workshops
These intensive workshops provide youth with the opportunity to learn art techniques from skilled artisans. Each series focuses on a different theme in order to translate ideas about the works on view into new works created right in our workshop space. Previous Hands On workshops have focused on videography, print making, and comic illustration.
High School Internship Program
The Studio Museum in Harlem offers unpaid semester, year-long, and summer internships to High School students in New York City. This professional development program for teens introduces youth to museums, the arts, and a professional environment. Students are teamed with staff members in various departments according to their interests and skills.
Youth Programs are supported by: The Peter Jay Sharp Foundation, Time Warner Inc., Citigroup Foundation, the Jacob and Gwendolyn Lawrence Trust, New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency, Bank of America and the Eathon Hall Memorial Fund.
