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Category: Faculty
Alumni Interview: Elisa Jensen (Years of Study 1989-93)
“My conception of the possibilities of drawing completely opened up, and I learned so much just in those first two weeks that directly applied to my painting.”
January 29, 2026 · Alumni, Faculty
Student & Faculty Perspective: Virtual Certificate and Marathons
“I’ve been there through two years now out of a three year program. And I would say the transformation is real. What has happened to me since I’ve started is that I’ve allowed myself to completely re-orient the way I think about my drawing and painting and completely become a different painter.”
July 29, 2025 · Faculty, Marathons, Student Perspectives
In the Studio with NYSS Instructor Jenny Lynn McNutt
NYSS Instructor Jenny Lynn McNutt shares ceramic sculpture created at Taoxichuan International Studio, Jingdezhen, China, at EKWC in The Netherlands and in Brooklyn, New York.
August 10, 2021 · Faculty
NYSS Instructor Karen Wilkin’s article “How Art Lovers Weathered the Coronavirus Pandemic in 2020” in The Wall Street Journal
“The New York Studio School, where I teach art history (remotely) in the MFA program, now has full-time remote students from all over the world and well-known alumni, based as far away as California and Australia, leading remote ateliers.”
December 21, 2020 · Faculty
Faculty Perspective: Clintel Steed “Silent Heroes in the Times of Darkness”
“So I started painting; I found something. I found something that let me deal with my anger, my idleness, and it also gave me hope. And I must say that growing up sometimes, that what you felt like was missing from the community, was a sense of hope of believing that you could be something.”
June 22, 2020 · Faculty
![[RSVP FULL] We are currently at capacity for Bob Nickas' lecture, "Has Contemporary Art Run Its Course?", happening tonight on October 14th, 2026. There will be overflow space open in the downstairs gallery.
A critic and curator based in New York, Bob Nickas has organized more than 130 exhibitions since 1984. He was on the teams responsible for Aperto at the Venice Biennale in 1993, the 7th Bienal d’Art Contemporain de Lyon in 2003, and Greater New York 2005, at MoMA/PS1, where he served as Curatorial Advisor between 2004-07. Along with Peter Halley, he was founding Editor of Index magazine, which he helmed between 1996-2000. His writing has been widely published and translated, and five collections of essays and interviews have been published to date: Live Free Or Die (2000), Theft Is Vision (2008), The Dept. of Corrections (2016), Komplaint Dept. (2018), and Corrected Proofs (2023). He also published a yearlong daily diary, Yesterworld, (2022). In 2024, he founded the New York Art Critics Association.
At MoMA/PS1, Nickas organized the first U.S. museum survey exhibitions for Lee Lozano, Wolfgang Tillmans, Tom Sandberg, and Peter Hujar, as well as curated projects with Mike Cloud, Trisha Donnelly and Torbjorn Rodland. A prolific writer, he has authored and contributed to numerous monographs and books, among them for On Kawara, Olivier Mosset, Cady Noland, Steven Parrino, Yayoi Kusama, Dan Walsh, Stephen Shore, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Anne Collier, Gardar Eide Einarsson, Tomma Abts, Robert Grosvenor, Vija Celmins, Salvo, Peter Bradley, and Kathleen Ryan.
Nickas has lectured at many museums, art schools, and universities over the past forty years, and taught at Columbia University and New York University.
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