This week, we are delighted to share the great accomplishments of our teaching artists in all of our programs, plus the usual other art news and an invite or two!

"Sing a song of Maytime. Sing a song of Spring. Flowers are in their beauty. Birds are on the wing."

Movement in nature, & following the red thread home with Advanced Studio. Drawing shoes, landscape painting & jazz collage at PS 17. Home: Here, There, Everywhere collage at PS 6. Plus other art news and an invitation to a panel talk tonight!

This week in Advanced Studio we created artwork about our communities, and celebrated Passover mulling over the Exodus story and the underground railroad. We have been looking at art in person near and far, and an invitation to a panel talk!

This week in Advanced Studio we explored artistic representations of Orishas on zoom. In person we had a pirate themed session. At PS 17 students learned grid drawing, linear perspective, and collage. Plus we saw some awesome spring art exhibitions!

Celebrating the start of spring with festive crowns, inspired by Aboriginal Artist Emily Kam Kngwarra, painting self-portraits, and larger-than-life women we admire! Plus art to see and a spring recipe!

Learning about Maroon culture, creating familial suitcases, sculpture by accretion, drawing & painting portraits, opportunities & check us out on the walls of a museum!

Mapping our important places, creating visual memories for a collaborative piece at Advanced Studio, portraits for Women's History month at PS 17, and animation at PS 6. Plus plenty of wonderful art news!

We are thrilled to share exciting news, really exciting! READ ON!

Love & names in motion, Valentine's the Ruth Asawa way, and a mini-city of buildings! Plus raffle winning dinner and exhibitions we are proud of! ♥️🩷❤️❤️‍🔥

Food Migration, self-portrait quilt panels, names in motion, and building sculptures, plus some other art news -- it was a great week!

Time Travel back to 1940 NYC, Migration Within: Tracing Ancestral Traits & Tenement Design in Miniature Scale. Plus exhibitions to see and books to read.

Celebrating MLK thinking about metanoia, perceiving and depicting Paranormal Phenomena at The Drawing Center, finishing up mixed media pieces inspired by Dahlov Ipcar & more!

Ushering in the New Year with tiny books for the AYB dollhouse, passports for unusual travel, and animal migration in mixed media.

We are on winter break, but here is a sneak peek at what we have been up to & a heads up for next week's Advanced Studio sessions!

This week AYB artists were inspired by Chinese Astrology & Barkley Hendricks landscapes. We are gearing up for classes at PS 6. And we have lots of art to share, and exhibitions to recommend!

Memory as Time Travel (in collage), ekphrasis fun, an exhibition to go see and heads up for a performance you do not want to miss!

A great party, successful fundraising, objects that carry our emotional & ephemeral selves, packing a bag, looking at art, and more.

AYB Movers & Shakers exhibition opening and benefit party is TOMORROW 11/22 6-9pm. And here is what we did this week...

Get your tickets from Movers & Shakers the AYB benefit party...plus The Harlem Renaissance & Wifredo Lam migration inspired work and lots of other art news/recommendations!