An artist has always been the most impressive and appealing job anybody could have. Even as a child I knew how much work it took to get to a professional level as an artist, I’ve always practiced to better myself…
I studied at the Art Students League from the Fall of 2020 to the Spring of 2021, and I really enjoyed my time there remote. This year I would like to have an in-person experience. Every time I attended class,…
Hello, my name is Michelle Lee and I initially studied at the League in 2019 with Amy Weiskopf and Sherry Camhy. Unfortunately, my studies at the League took a sharp halt during Covid but I continued to keep a close…
As an Architectural designer and artist, I want to work with the sculpture teachers at the Art Students League and learn the fundamentals of large-scale sculpture. As a young kid I always wanted to be an artist and architect and…
At the dawn of the Harlem Renaissance, Augusta Savage fought racism to earn acclaim as a sculptor, showing her work alongside de Kooning and Dalí. But the path she forged is also her legacy In 1937, the sculptor Augusta Savage…
No artist has explored the contradictions of humanity as sympathetically and critically as the Japanese animation legend. Now, at 80, he’s coming out of retirement with another movie. THE SCREEN IS black, and then comes the first frame: Hayao Miyazaki,…
Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world. Harriet Tubman This March, Seeds of the League has the pleasure…
As a multidisciplinary artist working in performance and lens-based media, Rebecca Belmore creates scenes of aching endurance and forceful grace. Since the 1990s, Belmore’s images have probed the politics of First Nations representation in Canada, often melding the photographic with…
My name is Noelani, and I am currently working towards becoming a concept artist and illustrator. Up until 2016, I had been taking free Saturday Art Classes in Queens for middle schoolers held by the Joan Mitchell Foundation (JMF). The…
As a bilingual New Yorker, Seeds of the League gave me a new language – an art to really express myself. Ever since I was 6, I trained as a classical ballet dancer, with all the physical and emotional demands of that…
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