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FEATURED ARTISTS

We regularly feature Community members who reflect on their creative process, their experience as working artists, and why they believe children benefit when their own creativity is celebrated and encouraged from an early age.

Jeff Koons & STUDIO Artist/Instructor Cathy Ramey

Jeff Koons and Cathy Ramey

"How did you make your sculptures?" a second-grader in East Harlem asked the smiling man in black jeans and sneakers who sat in a circle with 16 second-graders and their STUDIO artist/instructor.  He was asking about the famous balloon dog sculptures of Jeff Koons, one of America's most prominent living artists, who came today to help teach art class at Manhattan's PS 112.

"I used a balloon, twisted it into a shape like a dog," said Koons.   "Then I made a mold and filled the mold with polished metal, which creates a surface like a mirror.  And do you know why I made the dogs shiny?  To reflect you.  I did it to celebrate YOU."

Today Koons was also celebrating Studio in a School's Visual Arts Appreciation Week, kicking off the 35th anniversary festivities marking the founding of STUDIO.  A longtime friend and supporter of STUDIO, Koons said: "I'm really moved to be here, to see first hand the vast impact that STUDIO makes on these kids' lives.  The artwork here is amazing.  You can feel the sense of interior life developing and relating to the outside world.  Children are learning about their own possibilities, and art will carry them throughout their lives.  Art is a vocabulary that really lets people connect to the world."  Read more...

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Welcome

We are working artists and other members of New York's arts community. We believe that every child in our city should have the opportunity to explore their own creative vision through the process of making art. We know first hand how this can be a transformative experience in a young person's life.

Learn what we are doing in partnership with STUDIO in a School and how you can become a member of our community.

Our Founding Members

Our founding members share two passions: a passion for creating art and a passion for helping young people discover and express themselves through their own creative work.

Founding Members

Marina Abramovic | Tony Bechara | Lynda Benglis

Christine Burgin | Christo | Claudia Demonte

Lucy Fradkin | Bob Gober | Timothy Greenfield-Sanders

John M. Hall | Peter Halley | Bob Holman

Roni Horn | Alex Katz | Carol LeWitt

Julian Lethbridge | Andrew Lord | Mary Mattingly

Kathryn McAuliffe | Tom Otterness | Ellen Phelan

Dorothea Rockburne | James Rosenquist | Clifford Ross

Ed Ruscha | Joel Shapiro | Arthur Simms

Pat Steir | Hendel Teicher | Mimi Thompson

Ursula von Rydingsvard | William Wegman

James Weingrod | Terry Winters | Elyn Zimmerman

as of 5/7/11

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STUDIO in a School does incredibly important work, unbelievably well.

—Clifford Ross

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