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."

This week in AYB on zoom, in the studio, in the school and out in the world we have been making collages, drawing, painting and more!

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!

We celebrated Women’s History Month on zoom and created sculptural lockets in person at Advanced Studio, while our school programs in Jersey City continued full tilt with an extra-packed schedule. From farther afield: our exhibition Hold Dear is now on view at Small House Gallery in London. Meanwhile, AYB Artist Ed Rath has been in Kansas speaking at the Salina Art Center.

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!

UFO's, ET's, rocket ships, following tracks, animals in motion, and art news from afar. This week was outta sight!

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!

Migratory patterns, space craft (interior & exterior), miniature mural painting and tiny books, with a dive into semiotics. What a week!

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!

Winter rituals, art making, and art to inspire, with a big helping of thanks! 🪩♥️🌲❄️