We wrapped up programming for the Year to Heal and Restore this week with spectacular Advanced Studio and School sessions!

Reclusiveness versus Togetherness, balance and coping mechanisms in the classroom, 1 point perspective and Illuminated manuscripts.

Confronting our feelings about guns, envisioning urban spaces replete with nature, plus exhibitions, public art, prizes & publications.

Colorful painted abstractions, papier-mâché defamiliarized objects, tree houses drawn & 3-D, and redesigning our urban spaces for wildlife.

Strange beasts, mysterious tree houses, animated drawings, inspired by Hilma af Klint's Swan Series and a mural in progress!

Story boards, animation to fix broken things, stained glass inspired collage, tree houses and abstraction - a fun week!

Celebrating Beltane, live jazz, stained glass windows, and abstract sculpture. Plus art to go see!

Please join us for the Opening Reception on Saturday April 30, 1-6pm! Plus it was a fantastic art-filled week for ART YARD BKLYN - read on!

ART YARD exhibits at BWAC, Art & the Revolutionary Act of Sharing Food, Hoffman's Push/Pull color theory & more!

Collective murals by elementary students inspired by master artists, honoring Gaia, still life in gray scale and flower painting.

Using the color white as a compositional tool, exploring the picture plane, completing Surrealist eyes, expanding by grid, animation stills

Celebrating the Vernal Equinox, Surrealism, Abstraction, mixed-media masks (about community) and looking at art in person!

Masks with a message, un-masking, finished self portraits, surrealistic eyes, painting sound and Blaze shows us how sunglasses should look!

Faces masked and un-masked, seeing music, eyes realistic and surrealistic, family and community, and lovely triptychs in oil pastel.

Hair, skin, expression, hearing, looking and seeing, plus some art news from Kansas!

Showing emotion in a masked self portrait, sending out LOVE and letting in the LIGHT, plus other art news!

Self care, visiting art in person, language, self portraiture and returning to Jersey City!

Healing through self portraiture, celebrating Imbolc (the coming of spring), art to go see and more!

Exploring work by artists Lily Yeh, Toyin Ojih Odutola & Michael Volpicelli. Year of the Tiger, exhibitions & the traveling ART YARD Tote.

The act of reflecting as a healing process, semiotics and an exploration of water. Plus ART YARD tote bags cross the pond!