THE ART STUDENTS LEAGUE OF NEW YORK

Seeds of The League is The Art Students League of New York’s community youth program. Seeds partners with public schools and social service organizations across New York City to provide arts programming where it would otherwise not be accessible.

Seeds also provides full scholarships to artists ages 8 and up from underserved backgrounds to take classes at The Art Students League with our renowned instructors. In the ten years since its founding, Seeds of The League has given out more than 650 scholarships for study at The League. Seeds students have gone on to earn over $1,000,000 to support the cost of college tuition, and many have built careers they might not have had access to otherwise: they are now architects, teachers, illustrators, animators and more.

Works in Public (formerly known as Model to Monument) is a professional development program for League artists that was begun in partnership with the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation in 2010. Works in Public trains a diverse, international group of League students in the process of creating large-scale sculpture for outdoor public spaces. ​​Forty-six artists have completed this program and had their sculptures installed in year-long public exhibitions at Riverside Park South and Riverside Park at 145th Street. The program is open to advanced League students in any discipline. Starting in 2022, Works in Public has been re-conceived as a two-year intensive course of study, culminating in the installation of artwork in Riverside Park at 145th Street for a one-year public exhibition.

The League’s intensive Certificate Program is designed to cultivate growth of the individual’s talent within the League’s renowned atelier system. The Certificate Program consists of a prescribed course of study leading to a Certificate of Completion. The prescribed course of study is a dedicated two- or four-year plan of intensive study, tailored to meet professional and personal artistic interests. This semester-based program allows for two starting periods: September and January.

Students in the Certificate Program benefit from: Ongoing educational and professional development support from the League Student Affairs Department; An official certificate authenticating successful completion of a formalized art curriculum; A gallery exhibition with all students completing the Certificate Program that year; A wealth of other programs at the League, including intensive workshops; 12-week, goal focused “sequential” classes; exhibition and public art opportunities.

The Art Students League is committed to offering exhibition opportunities to our student/member artists. Exhibition Outreach (EO) displays the work of League artists in venues throughout the tristate area for viewing by hundreds of thousands of people.

Students gain experience entering their work in competition, preparing their work for display, and marketing their work for sale. Since its inception in 2006, EO has placed works by more than 800 artists in more than 200 exhibitions, at such major venues and fairs including the Affordable Art Fair, the Governors Island Art Fair, as well as participation in EOP public art events, including Sketch in the Park. Other exhibition venues have included AT Kearney, Squire Patton Boggs, ​NYIAC, and the Conference Board. Most recently, EO has expanded its reach with institutional partnerships, including Riverside Park Conservancy, and a new collaboration with ChaShaMa.

In September 2018, the Art Students League of New York launched a new class for talented high school juniors and seniors as part of the “Aspiring Artists High School Program.” This professional-level class on Sunday afternoons during the academic year is a unique opportunity for young artists interested in developing their observational skills in painting from nature and working with other exceptional young artists. The class is taught by the renowned contemporary still life painter Amy Weiskopf, who will select up to 25 students by portfolio application. Every student will receive a full scholarship that will cover tuition and materials. This is an extraordinary opportunity to study at one of the country’s leading art schools. Students will paint directly from life as they learn the fundamentals of oil painting: light, color, form, space, and composition, the very building blocks of individual expression.