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.
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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, Citi Foundation, The Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation, the Zelnick/Belzberg Charitable Trust, the Hearst Foundations, Mr. and Mrs. Peter L. Malkin and The Malkin Fund, Inc., Jane Toll and the late Robert Toll, Emme and Jonathan Deland, Kaplen Brothers Fund, the Emily Davie and Joseph S. Kornfeld Foundation, Lester and Enid Morse, Sanford L. Smith, the Wescustogo Foundation, the Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation, Con Edison, Adam R. Flatto, Ken Kuchin and Tyler Morgan, Stacy Schiff and Marc de La Bruyère, the Howard & Sarah D. Solomon Foundation, the Michael Tuch Foundation, the WME Foundation, Krystyna Doerfler, Anita K. Hersh, and the Ida and William Rosenthal Foundation. Additional support has been provided by members of the Armory's Avant-Garde Scholars, the Armory's Education Committee and generous donors to the Armory's Gala and Snowflake Lounge.
The Armory's arts education programs are also made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor 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