New York Studio Program

The Kansas City Art Institute participates in the New York Studio Program offered through the Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design.

Photo of Pearl Street Pocket Park courtesy of The Squirrels, 2008.

Third and fourth year undergraduate students or graduate students enrolled in an AICAD college and majoring in fine arts, related visual arts, photography, graphic arts or design are eligible to apply, if the college itself is not located in New York, if the student’s application is approved by the college and if the college selects the student to participate.

The New York Studio Program utilizes a model of art education that combines learning with location as an important ingredient, and is built on diversity, self-motivation and discourse to experience a semester of living and studying in New York.

The program emphasizes independent studio work, critique sessions with art faculty, seminars with critics and weekly visiting artists who talk about their own work and critique the students. Many of the students that participate in the program work as interns in design, photography and publication.

The program’s loft style facility is housed in the DUMBO (Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass) district of Brooklyn, N.Y., on the East River in view of the Brooklyn Bridge and looking out over lower Manhattan. The facility includes individual art studios, a seminar room, a wood shop, a computer room and a kitchen and dining area. The program employs four faculty members, two art critics/writers and two artists.  There also is a studio manager for the facility who works with the director and the students.

More information about the program is available on the AICAD Web site.