TEEN ART SALON INC

Programs

1. Drawing all-stars fellowship:the drawing all-stars new york community trust van lier fellowship is a free 2.5-year pre-professional development program for a cohort of ten high schoolers, in grades 9 and 10, led by teen art salon in partnership with the drawing center. Focusing on new york city's next generation of artists, the program supports teens to expand their drawing practices, amplify their artistic ambitions, and pursue creative career endeavors.meeting three times per week, participants began to develop a portfolio, crafted individual style and a critical voice, and started to build a diverse body of major works through uninterrupted studio time.the program included instilling creative stamina and artistic endurance as crucial components of professional artmaking, and ensured participants became comfortable speaking about their work in public and working under the pressure of deadlines. Over five-month period drawing all-stars participants worked to build confidence in ideating, drafting, planning, executing, and completing works on paper, including a final artwork of their own design. Fellows participated in field trips and the opportunity to meet and learn from local…

   $53,295 spent
   71% of program spending

2. Queens public library programs: staff delivered the following workshop 'character and creature design', 'intro to painting', 'lessons in listening for teen mental health month and portfolio prep for middle schoolers' at the following branches, elmhurst, hunters point, and ridgewood. These programs were aimed at youth in grades 6 -8.students learned the building blocks of visual storytelling: the basics of character & creature design, alongside illustrating environments. Participants received lessons on the science of creature design and how to create figures through basic gesture and life drawing. Inspiration was taken from animation, manga, and graphic novels to practice drawing movement, setting, and narrative choices. Students also learned the beginnings of storyboarding, with the goal of illustrating character-driven visuals.these free intensives also focused on developing foundational drawing and design skills to prepare middle schoolers for nyc's visual arts high school admissions.participants were given exercises to deepen observational and figure drawing skills, in addition to working from their own imagination independently and collaboratively. Students will also be shown…

   $12,818 spent
   17% of program spending

3. Other programs:teen art salon executed a range of arts education programming through partnership institutions, including our annual summer intensive 'camp draw-a-thon' at the drawing center for twenty-five rising 10th and 11th graders over a 3-day period young artists engaged in a dynamic daily drawing marathon. This program focused on portraiture and took inspiration from the exhibition on view, in the medium of life: the drawings of beauford delaney. In a collaborative setting with guidance from instructors, artists deepened their conceptual and observational drawing skills, through exploring individual style, the search for inspiration, and spatial awareness on & across the page. The goal was for participants to further a generative routine drawing practice and to celebrate what they are uniquely motivated to sketch.additionally, tas continued its community partnership with moma ps1 and was commissioned to create a new family guide and reissue a print run of a previous guide on the museum's artist interventions. We worked with assistant curators, program production, and the on-staff graphic designed to co-create the guide for yto barrada's courtyard installation.finally, senior…

   $8,752 spent
   12% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $74,865.