"O.K. How can we be of service in a time of need?"

We have completed the first week of ART YARD Summer Session 2020. We met the challenges of virtual programming with aplomb.

with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776

This week’s Art Yard Advanced Studio was hosted by Meridith, who presented CHANCE: Personal Symbols, Ideas of Note, and Popular Culture. ...

"This is what we need right now, to look at art that allows us to be with our thoughts." Diana Rickard, review of In Reflection

Ai Weiwei sets the tone for our work in ART YARD this week.

"It falls on all of us, regardless of our race or station to work together to create a 'new normal' in which the legacy of bigotry and...

Memorial Day is an American holiday honoring the people who died while serving in the U.S. military. Originally known as Decoration Day,...

Many of us are starting to feel a level of exhaustion that is part and parcel of this strange and challenging time. I am certainly...

ART YARD Advanced Studio Senior Curators Kevin Anderson, Evelyn Beliveau, Vera Tineo, Fatima Traore, and Quentin Williamston met this...

As we soldier on through this seventh week of quarantine in NYC, communication is both crucial and weirdly skewed.

Isn’t it strange how time seems to have taken on an elastic quality? A month within a week span, a minute snapped by in a day. Somehow we...

Poets and Artists are masters of masks.

This week in ART YARD Advanced Studio a few artists continued work and completed their Fractured Self Portraits. We really love these...

After a little scuffle trying to locate our work in progress, ART YARD Advanced Studio Artists, enthusiastically leapt into completing...

This week ART YARD Advanced Studio artists worked with Teaching Artist Rachael Wren on Fractured Self Portraits. Rachael presented the...

New York City schools are on winter break this week... However we were making art at PS 6, Ed Rath sends greetings and photos from Tokyo...

ART YARD Advanced Studio achieved surprising wonderful results this week! Teaching Artist Ed Rath set up the Di Chirico inspired still...

Continuing our lesson on shadows, we mixed it up a bit this week in ART YARD Advanced Studio by turning off the overhead lights to create...

Following up on our last lesson, in ART YARD Advanced Studio Teaching Artist Ed Rath guided us to look at more still life paintings by...