Armory Art Together
Fall ‘20
Building on the success of the previous two editions of Armory Art Together, this third iteration of the program continues to offer artmaking opportunities, community connection, and an asynchronous option for nearly sixty Youth Corps of all generations to create art.
This semester, Youth Corps will explore the art of four Armory artists, inspired by one of the videos created by Armory Teaching Artists and shared with Partner Schools. The series begins with a look at Bill T. Jones and Afterwardness, and continues with explorations of the work of Nick Cave, who brought the colorful town hall/dance hall event The Let Go to the Armory in June 2018; textile artist Ann Hamilton, whose Event of a Thread saw the Drill Hall full of swings and pigeons in December 2012; and William Kentridge, whose epic multidisciplinary performance about African porters in WWI, The Head & the Load, was seen at the Armory in December 2018.
Participants create art in response to one of the Teaching Artists’ prompts in the videos and/or to a newly created prompt linking the Drill Hall piece to life right now. And although the program is intentionally designed to be mainly asynchronous (allowing students will intermittent internet access or challenging schedules to participate), the program will still include four optional Open Studios, led by Education Special Projects Coordinator Shar Galarza. At these workshops, students explore and respond to the art together, creating something new in collaboration based on what they learned from the art and the artist, in a process that nearly mimics an in-person Armory education program as Zoom allows.
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.
