New York Studio School of Drawing Painting and Sculpture

Art education: dedicated to conveying a deeper understanding of the language of art and to providing artists with the tools to follow any artistic path they choose, the School offers a master of fine arts program, a certificate program, evening & weekend classes, and its signature marathons. These programs typically require intensive work in the Studio and feature small, close-knit cohorts, extensive contact and critiques with artist-faculty, exhibition opportunities, and engagement with contemporary art discourses and the historical sweep of millenia of creative mark-making. In fy22 the School had an enrollment of 46 f/t students and 355 p/t students and provided 87 course offerings, a 32% increase from its fy2021 offerings reflecting the School's investment in virtual learning.

Student services: nyss takes care to provide crucial auxiliary programming and support services to its students to foster their intellectual, creative, and professional development. The library connects students, faculty, and other researchers to its resources and collections as well as to those of other nyc collections. The office of student services organizes professional career development events, field trips, and other extracurricular activities, in addition to community building and networking. Nyss also runs a residency in dumbo designed to support select recent graduate awardees with their transition to a postgraduate working practice. In fy22, the library acquired 125 books through donation and purchase, a 56% increase over fy21; it digitized 56 archival lectures, a 100% increase over fy21; and it added nearly 1,000 item records to the online catalogue, a 195% increase over fy21. Usage of the library by students, faculty, and other visitors increased 11% over fy21. The dumbo projects space hosted three artists-in-residence, participated in a number of community-organized open studios events and gallery walks, and curated four exhibitions.

Public programming: for more than half a century nyss has organized public programming that is free and open to all. Since 2020, these events have also been livestreamed and digitally archived, greatly expanding nyss' reach. The exhibition programs and twice-weekly evening lecture series bring the student body and a wider art community from nyc and beyond into dialogue with both emerging and acclaimed artists, curators, historians, critics, and others. The School organizes approx eight exhibitions in its main gallery each year, provides additional opportunities in the student gallery for student-curated exhibitions, and hosts a series of other events creating opportunities for engagement with a wider art world. In fy22 nyss hosted 29 lectures (only three of which were offered in a hybrid format; most were livestreamed only, on account of covid precautions), 10 exhibitions, and served more than 3200 people (a nearly 300% increase from the heavily covid-impacted visitor numbers of fy21). Archived lectures were viewed online more than 61,000 times, a 26% increase from fy21, and subscribers to the nyss youtube channel increased by 6%.