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New York Studio School Summer Session Marathons explore drawing, painting and sculpture as direct methodologies for understanding one’s experience in the world. Participants experience a wide range of activating, first-hand strategies for making art, in tandem with the intellectual rigor of extensive group and individual critiques.
Summer Session is held each year during the months of June and July in three intensive two-week long sessions. The innovation and depth inherent in these 10-day programs expand participants’ engagement with their materials of choice and lead to ways of creating which continue far beyond each program’s conclusion. Open to artists of all levels, courses are taught daily In-Person or Virtually in real-time from 9am – 6pm ET, excluding weekends.
Virtual Marathons
Virtual Marathons are an incredible opportunity for artists from around the world to experience the high caliber NYSS Marathons from their respective homes and studios. Taught through a combination of Zoom and Padlet, these courses bring the rigorous exercises, profound insights, and deep connections of in-person Marathons to participants via virtual means. Artists of all levels are welcome to join.
Join us this summer on 8th Street or virtually from anywhere in the world to elevate your practice and connect with a community of dedicated artists.
Please email info@nyss.org with any questions.
Marathon Tuition
One-Week Intersession Marathon – $1,450
Westbury Marathon – $2,300*
*The higher cost for this Marathon reflects location fees and additional costs of transportation to and from Old Westbury.
Generous partial scholarships are available.
SUMMER 2023 MARATHONS
Session I: June 5 – 16, 2023
Painting Marathon – VIRTUAL with Graham Nickson & Guests
Drawing Marathon – IN-PERSON: Portraiture and Presence with Linda Darling & Guests
Sculpture Marathon – IN-PERSON: Life-Size Figure with Brand Junceau
Session II: June 19 – 30, 2023
Drawing Marathon – VIRTUAL: Pathways to Abstraction with Fran O’Neill
Painting Marathon – IN-PERSON: Landscape in Westbury Gardens with Sam Levy & Distinguished Guest Graham Nickson
Sculpture Marathon – IN-PERSON: Mold-making and Casting with Sam Nichols
Session III: July 10 – 21, 2023
Painting Marathon – VIRTUAL: Why Paint the Figure with Elisa Jensen
Painting Marathon – IN-PERSON: Pompeii, Harmonics and Mystery with Sam Levy, Kaitlin McDonough, Clintel Steed
All levels are welcome.
Apply On SlideroomNYSS Marathons occur throughout the year in January, June, July, and September in a two-week format. Five-day Intersession Marathons occur in March and November. Visit our Marathon page to learn more and view upcoming courses.
Drawing Marathon – IN-PERSON: Portraiture and Presence with Linda Darling & Guests
9am - 6pm ET
In this intensive two-week Marathon, we will engage in the practice of drawing for eight hours per day, a rare opportunity. The focus will be on portraiture, closely observing the unique features and character of the model.
Sculpture Marathon – IN-PERSON: Life-Size Figure with Brandt Junceau
9am - 6pm ET
The life-size figure is a touchstone of sculpture. Making something our own size, standing like oneself, with every surface, each feature– a head, a face, a gaze like our own– that’s a very peculiar proposition, unlike anything else mankind makes for itself.
Drawing Marathon – VIRTUAL: Pathways to Abstraction with Fran O’Neill
9am - 6pm ET
This Drawing Marathon will encourage students to make many works and studies, with the idea of pushing students past their thresh hold of what they might consider to be the final product, into new arenas of abstraction.
Painting Marathon – IN-PERSON: Landscape in Westbury Gardens with Sam Levy & Distinguished Guest Graham Nickson
9am - 6pm ET
The return of the landscape painting Marathon in Old Westbury Gardens.
Painting Marathon – VIRTUAL: Why Paint the Figure with Elisa Jensen
9am - 6pm ET
This figure painting Marathon will explore in depth the development of figurative imagery in art. Focus will be on finding personal imagery and developing that imagery to the fullest extent by working from drawings, from the imagination and from memory.
Painting Marathon – IN-PERSON: Pompeii, Harmonics and Mystery with Sam Levy, Kaitlin McDonough, Clintel Steed
9am - 6pm ET
Course Description Buried under two days of the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79, ‘The Villa of Mysteries’ in Pompeii, Italy, lived frozen beneath time and space until archaeological digs exposed its wonder in the 19th & 20th centuries. True to its name, the magnificently painted room of the “Villa” contains mysteries upon mysteries. Based upon […]
