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Academic Calendar

Fall 2020

Financial Aid Application Deadline	January 15, 2020
Orientation	August 27, 3pm, 2020
Marathons	September 8 – 18, 2020
Full-time Semester (inc. Marathons)	September 8 – December 18, 2020
Yom Kippur	September 28, 2020
Open Studios	TBD
Thanksgiving Break (no classes)	November 26 – 29, 2020

Spring 2021

Application Deadline	October 1, 2020
Financial Aid Application Deadline	October 1, 2020
Orientation	January 14 – Thursday, 3pm
Marathons	January 19 – January 29, 2021
Martin Luther King Day (observed)	January 18, 2021
Full-time Semester (inc. Marathons)	January 19 – May 7, 2021
Presidents’ Day (no classes)	February 15, 2021
Spring Break (no regular classes, Evening & Saturday classes meet as scheduled)	March 29 – April 2, 2021
Critique Week	May 3 – 7, 2021
Certificate Graduate Opening	Wednesday, April 22, 2021
Certificate Graduate Exhibition	April 22 – May 6, 2021
MFA Thesis Opening	Wednesday, May 12, 2021, 6pm – 9pm
MFA Thesis Exhibition	May 12 – May 26, 2021
Commencement	May 13, 2021 (Thursday)

Summer 2021

Application Deadline	May 22, 2021
Orientation	May 27, 3pm, 2021
Summer Session I	June 2 – June 15, 2021
Summer Session II	June 21 – July 2, 2021
Summer Session III	July 8 – 21, 2021
Independence Day (observed)	July 4, 2021

Snapshots From NYSS

In-Person Sculpture Marathon – with Brandt Junce

In-Person Sculpture Marathon – with Brandt Junceau
January 19th - 29th, 2021
9am - 6pm

COURSE DESCRIPTION
You’re alone in your studio. You’ve just made something new, and you’re taking a first look at what you have. Now what?

How do you make more of this thing? What is it? What makes it more itself, ready to leave the room and stand up to strangers? What stays in, what cuts? Where to add? What sticks? How does one bend a good contour to its fullest? What is “color effect” (in sculpture) and how to get it? How to find this new thing’s sharp fundamental and push distractions out of its way?

This is a course in Practice. Two objectives: one, getting a box of practical methods of augmenting Form, any form. Second, making yourself your own studio visitor: learning to see as if you were someone else. Practice is seeing the new thing cold, protecting it like something warm, and making it aerodynamically sound. We should recognize that precious something even while it’s weak and awkward, and make it fly.

So, who’s Lachaise? A familiar spirit on Eighth Street, just down the block. We’ll “use” him to “augment and simplify” (his words).

Apply today via the link in bio!

#newyorkstudioschool #sculpturemarathon @brandtjunceau

Upcoming Evening Lecture: Always Believed The Good

Upcoming Evening Lecture: Always Believed The Good: A Conversation Between Artist Jim Condron and Painter Amy Sherald
Wednesday, December 2nd, 2020 at 6:30pm

AMY SHERALD, born 1973, USA
Through her monumental portraits of African American subjects, Amy Sherald explores alternate narratives of blackness through the exclusion of color from the notion of race. The Baltimore-based artist is best known for her stylized, figurative paintings of vibrantly dressed individuals rendered in grayscale skin tones against flat, highly-saturated backgrounds that evoke a sense of timeless identity.

Sherald was the first woman and first African-American ever to receive first prize in the 2016 Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition from the National Portrait Gallery in Washington D.C.; in February 2018, the museum unveiled her portrait of former First Lady Michelle Obama. In 2014, Sherald was awarded the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters Grant. Sherald has also received the 2017 Anonymous Was A Woman award and the 2019 Smithsonian Ingenuity Award. Alongside her painterly practice, Sherald has worked for almost two decades along-side socially committed creative initiatives, including teaching art in prisons and art projects with Baltimore youth.

JIM CONDRON’s works fuse painting and sculpture. His pieces tangle personal history, art history and his menacing obsession with collecting salvaged objects that resonate with vernacular associations. Condron attended NYSS and earned his MFA at the Hoffberger School of Painting of MICA. Condron is a recipient of a Pollock Krasner Foundation grant, an Adolf and Esther Gottlieb Foundation grant and has been awarded a number of residencies.

Please join us by registering for individual lectures through our website (link in bio) to tune in from anywhere in the world and be part of the conversation!

@asherald @j_condron

#amysherld #jimcondron #newyorkstudioschool #homestudioschool #culturefromhome #artkeepsgoing #nysseveninglectureseries

UPCOMING Virtual Drawing Marathon - with Graham Ni

UPCOMING Virtual Drawing Marathon - with Graham Nickson & Guests
January 19th - 29th, 2021
9am - 6pm

Welcoming artists from around the world!

COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course will investigate many implications of drawing as a physical and cerebral activity as well as drawing as a philosophy. We will discuss key issues, including those of scale—tiny to huge; the use of different formats; the use of the rectangle; the vertical axis and its significance; the nature of distortions; the compression of space and depth; the search for ‘form’ and its consequences; space and its meaning, functions and the different kinds of space; and the nature of relational drawing.

We will approach the meaning of images, investigating what contributes to a “powerful image”. We will discuss “pictorial” subject versus narrative subject: the diversities of structure, especially using strategies like the grid, the organic spiral and geometry, all of which play a part in research into the language of drawing.

Each day produces an intense working mode, utilizing the vitality of each individual’s purpose. Students work very hard and are offered individual criticism on a one to one basis. The average day usually contains several group critiques and a lengthy final critique at the end of the physical drawing session, and is intensified for the last critique at the end of the course. The dialogue and discussions within the group are expected to be clear and succinct. The students are encouraged to participate and understand the visual language of drawing.

Apply today to SECURE YOUR SPOT via the link in bio.

#newyorkstudioschool #drawingmarathon #homeStudioSchool #grahamnickson #culturefromhome #artkeepsgoing

Upcoming Evening Lecture: On Painting: Merlin Jame

Upcoming Evening Lecture: On Painting: Merlin James and David Cohen in Conversation
Tuesday, December 1st, 2020 at 6:30pm

MERLIN JAMES is represented by Sikkema, Jenkins & Co who will exhibit his paintings in New York, November 21st to January 23, 2021. Born in Cardiff, James attended the Central School of Art and Design, and the Royal College of Art, both in London, and has lived in Glasgow since 2004. He has written about art extensively, and is a regular contributor to the Burlington Magazine.

DAVID COHEN is publisher and editor of artcritical.com; founder-moderator of The Review Panel, the critics forum currently hosted by Brooklyn Public Library; and a scholar and educator. He is a longstanding faculty member at the New York Studio School.

Please join us by registering for individual lectures through our website (link in bio) to tune in from anywhere in the world and be part of the conversation!

@sikkemajenkins @davidcohenartcritical

#merlinjames #sikkemajenkins #davidcohen #artcritical #newyorkstudioschool #homestudioschool #culturefromhome #artkeepsgoing #nysseveninglectureseries

In-Person Drawing Marathon – with Ilse Murdock J

In-Person Drawing Marathon – with Ilse Murdock
January 19th - 29th, 2021
9am - 6pm

COURSE DESCRIPTION
The purpose of this two-week intensive Drawing Marathon is to provide each student with methods and practices concerning the idea of drawing as a backbone of studio practice. Drawing is the aspect of unearthing one’s own art and ideas, of moving with an evolving sounding board, of being in a mode of interior thinking and receiving next steps. This course poses drawing as a question or search that will enrich each individual’s particular art context and contemporary perspective. With a strong emphasis on “looking”, at both subjects and drawings themselves, students will work to expand their visual language and strengthen their individual approach through a question they set up for themselves. Returning to this question, as the parameters for drawing broaden, becomes a connective thread towards the weaving of a personal paradigm within one’s work.

Apply today via the link in bio!

@ilsemurdock #newyorkstudioschool #drawingmarathon #ilsemurdock

The New York Studio School wishes you a very Happy

The New York Studio School wishes you a very Happy Thanksgiving. We are deeply grateful to everyone in the NYSS family for your role in our community and for the ongoing connection, this year and beyond.

Image: Lauren Reynolds, Certificate Student

@odorless.mineral.spirits #laurenreynolds #newyorkstudioschool

2020 MFA Thesis Exhibition with Halle Dillion, on

2020 MFA Thesis Exhibition with Halle Dillion, on view with works available to purchase though Artsy. View the 2020 Certificate Completion Exhibitions and first five 2020 MFA Thesis Exhibitions on Artsy (link in bio) with the final exhibitions beginning next week!

@halledillon_art

#halledillon #newyorkstudioschool #mfa #mfathesis #painting

Alumni Spotlight: Carlo Cittadini, MFA 2019 “Wh

Alumni Spotlight: Carlo Cittadini, MFA 2019

“While at the New York Studio School, I discovered how to paint with my guts. As I was pushed to work faster than my brain could think, I learned to have a visceral experience that is raw, immediate, and stunning. […] The Studio School also forever shaped my commitment to working from life, with the model, replenishing my visual vocabulary in a way that feels honest, sensitive and receptive. Shortly after graduating, I started hosting a weekly figure drawing night in our flat to share with peers from NYSS and beyond.”

The New York Studio School welcomes applications for our full-time programs: MFA Fall 2021 and Certificate Fall 2021 and Spring 2021. Learn more and apply through the link in bio.

#newyorkstudioschool #MFA #masteroffinearts #nysscertificate #painting #drawing #sculpture

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