Youth Corps
The Armory Youth Corps is a rigorous, closely-mentored, paid program that introduces students to the creative process of artists of the highest caliber, while providing meaningful employment, leadership development, and career readiness training.
The Youth Corps begins in high school, working with students in New York City who attend public high schools with whom the Armory has a close relationship. The Youth Corps provides a test audience to the Armory Artist Corps during the lesson design process, offering feedback from a student perspective; serves as Front of House staff for all Armory events; assists in administrative projects in all departments; and completes and presents a term project. Building on their time at the Armory in high school and created directly based on the feedback of students, the Youth Corps program also includes a variety of post-secondary opportunities including advanced internships, a teaching artist apprentice program, a college support program, a student advisory board, and writing intensive.
On this website, you’ll find artwork by the Youth Corps created starting in Spring 2020. During an extraordinarily challenging year, the Youth Corps came together virtually, meeting in Zoom, creating artwork asynchronously, engaging with artwork and artists from the Armory’s past and present, and staying connected through unconventional art.
You can find out more about Youth Corps and Park Avenue Armory here.
Photo credit above: Da Ping Luo
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, Citi Foundation, the Zelnick/Belzberg Charitable Trust, the Hearst Foundations, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation, Emme and Jonathan Deland, the Emily Davie and Joseph S. Kornfeld Foundation, Lester and Enid Morse, Sanford L. Smith, Jane and Robert Toll, the Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund, Con Edison, Adam R. Flatto, Ken Kuchin and Tyler Morgan, Sylvia and Leonard Marx, Jr., Stacy Schiff and Marc de La Bruyère, the Howard & Sarah D. Solomon Foundation, the WME Foundation, Krystyna Doerfler, Janet Halvorson, 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 and generous donors to the Armory's Gala.
The Armory's arts education programs are also made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of 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.
