Opportunities in the Visual Arts Await
We provide opportunities for learners of all ages through visual arts education and career development programs.
Since 1977, Studio in a School (SIAS) has been committed to bringing professional artists into New York City classrooms to teach visual arts programs to over a million students.
This commitment has enabled us to develop a unique expertise in the field of arts education. We conduct research, share tested innovations and assessment methods, and provide curriculum and classroom program models to arts and educational communities.
Our Work
From partnerships that include early childhood programs, family engagement, and artist residencies to internship-based learning for teens and college students, and professional learning for educators, we are dedicated to improving opportunities through the visual arts.
Making It Happen
Our Methods
Our unique expertise in arts education comes from a focus on drawing, painting, printmaking, collage, and sculpting.
We work exclusively with the visual arts and hire only professional artists to mentor and teach the children and youth in our collaborative partnership-based programs. Whether they be early childhood or youth-development goals, our programs address the needs of the communities we serve.
Our Community
Includes a range of stakeholders that contribute to the work that we do:
• Children and students from pre-K through college
• Parents and caregivers
• School and community leaders
• Administrators
• Artist instructors
• Partner arts organizations and foundations
• Individual donors.
Communities We’re Building With
ARTS INTERN
A.I.R. Gallery, Artists for Humanity, Brooklyn Children’s Museum, Brooklyn Museum, Harpo Foundation, The Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, The Juilliard School, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Madison Square Park Conservancy, El Museo del Barrio, Museum of Chinese in America, National Dance Institute, New York Hall of Science, New-York Historical Society, New York Transit Museum, The Noguchi Museum, Poster House, Queens Museum, Renee & Chaim Gross Foundation, Rubin Museum of Art, Staten Island Museum, Studio Museum in Harlem, Tenement Museum, Theatre for a New Audience,
Woodman Family Foundation
BLOOMBERG ARTS INTERNSHIP
Bronx: B.A.A.D! (Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance), New York Botanical Garden, Wave Hill; Brooklyn: Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn Arts Council, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Brooklyn Conservatory of Music, The Brooklyn Rail, Brooklyn Youth Chorus, Cool Culture, STREB, Inc., UrbanGlass, Urbanworld Foundation, viBe Theater Experience, Weeksville Heritage Center, Wyckoff House Museum; Manhattan: Art21, Asian American Alliance, Ballet Hispánico, Building Studio Architects, Cathedral of St. John the Divine, Creative Capital Foundation, Gibney Dance, Hispanic Society Museum & Library, The Juilliard School, The Laundromat Project, Madison Square Park Conservancy, Martha Graham School, Museum of Jewish Heritage, National Black Theatre, National Dance Institute, New York Live Arts, New York Theatre Workshop, Open House New York, Park Avenue Armory, Roundabout Theatre Company, Signature Theatre, Theatre for a New Audience; Queens: King Manor Museum, Materials for the Arts, Museum of the Moving Image, New York Hall Of Science, Queens Botanical Garden; Staten Island: Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden, Staten Island Museum—and all participating NYC CTE high schools
TEEN APPRENTICESHIP PROGRAM
Brooklyn: CAMBA, Center for Family Life (Sunset Park), Coalition for Hispanic Family Services, Police Athletic League; Manhattan: Union Settlement, Police Athletic League, The Boys’ Club of New York (Abbe Clubhouse), Grand Street Settlement (Seward Park); Queens: Coalition for Hispanic Family Services, Sunnyside Community Services, Police Athletic League–and participating NYC High Schools
ARTS INTERN (Newark)
GlassRoots
Newark Arts Council
Newark Public Library
Newark School of the Arts
CREATIVE START
East Orange School District (East Orange) and
La Casa de Don Pedro Early Childhood Education Programs (Newark)
Newark Trust for Education
ARTS INTERN
Art House, Inc.
Cleveland Clinic Art Program
Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland Public Library
Cleveland Public Theatre
Inlet Dance Theatre
Julia De Burgos Cultural Arts Center
Roots of American Music
ARTIST RESIDENCY PROGRAM Pre-K–8
Cleveland Metropolitan Schools District
CREATIVE START
Cleveland Metropolitan School District
Rainey Institute
Our work in Cleveland is supported by Cuyahoga Arts & Culture.
ARTS INTERN
Art Museum of the University of Memphis
Memphis Botanic Garden
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art
Metal Museum
Soulsville Foundation
ARTS INTERN
Boston Children’s Chorus
Celebrity Series of Boston
Edvestors
Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston
Spoke Art, Inc.
WBUR (Boston University)
ARTS INTERN
ART WORKS Projects
Bronzeville Historical Society
Chicago History Museum
Chicago Latino Theater Alliance
Haitian American Museum of Chicago
Media Burn Archive
National Public Housing Museum
The Polish Museum of America
Smart Museum
Swedish American Museum
ARTS INTERN
Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection at Temple University Libraries
The Fabric Workshop and Museum
Founder’s Hall Museum at Girard College
Free Library of Philadelphia
InLiquid
Ministry of Awe
Mural Arts Philadelphia
The Rosenbach
Tiny WPA
Women’s Coalition for Empowerment
Woodmere Art Museum
ARTS INTERN
Art with a Heart
Baltimore Museum of Industry
ARTS INTERN
RISD Museum
CREATIVE START
Family Centers Early Care & Education Programs (Greenwich)
Join Us
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Arts Intern
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Arts Intern Host Institutions
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What Drives Us
My son looks forward to class every week. If he has to miss art, he is very sad. He drew a picture in occupational therapy and the therapist asked him what he made. He said, ’I made a zig zag. I learned it in art class!’
Community Parent, Newark
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