Arts Education at Park Avenue Armory gives students and families the tools to think creatively and trust their own aesthetic judgment by exposing them to outside-the-box artists and architecture.
The Arts Education Initiatives at Park Avenue Armory are:
Production-Based Programming | Family Programming
Armory Youth Corps | Partner Schools
Arts Education by the Numbers
Since 2010, the Armory’s arts education program has had:
195 Artists Directly Interacting with Students
231 Youth Corps Participants Work 76,708 hours as Part of Their Paid Internships
2,153 Workshops Created to Serve 36,510 Students and Families
1,100,000 Students Reached through Armory-Produced Education Resources at 1,861 NYC public schools
Park Avenue Armory's arts education programs are supported by generous grants from the Leonard and Judy Lauder Fund, The Thompson Family Foundation, The Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation, the Zelnick/Belzberg Charitable Trust, the Hearst Foundations, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation, the Emily Davie and Joseph S. Kornfeld Foundation, Janet Halvorson, Lester and Enid Morse, the Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund, Con Edison, the WME Foundation, the Ida and William Rosenthal Foundation, the Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation, and the Michael Tuch Foundation. Additional support has been provided by members of the Armory's Education Committee.
The Armory's arts education programs are also made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, and are supported in part by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the city council.
Arts Education Banner Photo: Da Ping Luo