Students in Studio Institute Programs Featured at Christie’s Young Visions 2023
An opening reception to celebrate young artists from Pre-K through high school, whose work was included in the Young Visions 2023 show was held June 21 at Christie’s New York in Rockefeller Center. Young Visions, made possible through a partnership with Studio in a School and Christie’s Auction House, is an annual exhibition of art from students enrolled in Studio NYC and Studio Institute visual arts education programs.
These works share the joys of discovery as students aged two through five years explore painting, collage, and 3-D art making in the Institute’s Creative Start program, offered at Head Start sites and early childhood centers in Newark and East Orange, New Jersey; Cleveland, Ohio; and Greenwich, Connecticut.
Also on exhibit are works from students in our school partnerships at the Clara E. Westropp School and Mary B. Martin School in Cleveland, Ohio, where our in-school residencies serve students from Pre-Kindergarten through 8th grade. Working in a variety of media, students explore and create, while making connections to learning in other subjects.
Locally, Studio Institute’s out-of-school programs for New York City teens include a series of Studio Intensives in which students hone their skills in a variety of media, from charcoal figure drawing to painting with watercolor and acrylics to landscapes in oil pastel. The works reflect the teens’ interests, perspectives, and observations of the world, and the people and things around them as they develop as artists.
Out of hundreds of submissions, 57 artworks were chosen from Studio Institute programs for the Christie’s exhibition. Studio artists whose students were represented in the show include: Juan Pablo Baene, Lewis Derogene, Donna Drew-Pack, Zakiya Erby, Pilar Garra, Elaine Greenstein, Shawn Kerns, Ashley Krug, Georgio Sabino III, Maya Shae, Sejin Park, Georgio Sabino III, Sophie Wojdylo, and Cesar Valdes. We applaud our young students for their fine work and celebrate the imagination and promise of the next generation of artists in our midst.
Special thanks to our school and community partners for their participation and support: Armstrong Court Preschool, Grauer Preschool and Gateway Preschool at Family Centers, Greenwich, Connecticut; Clara E. Westropp School, Mary B. Martin School, Union Miles Early Learning Center, Villa Early Learning Center, and YWCA Early Learning Center in Cleveland, Ohio; Althea Gibson Academy and Wahlstrom Academy in East Orange, New Jersey; and La Casa de Don Pedro centers at Demarest, First Street, 45 Elizabeth, and St. Francis in Newark, New Jersey.
New York City school partners include: Curtis High School in Staten Island; Bronx High School for the Visual Arts, Bronx; Brooklyn High School of the Arts and Midwood High School in Brooklyn; High School of Art and Design and Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts in Manhattan; and Flushing High School, Queens High School for Language Studies, and The Scholars’ Academy in Queens.
We applaud these young children and students for their fine work and celebrate the imagination and promise of the next generation of artists in our midst.