ATTENTION, HIGH SCHOOL ART STUDENTS. IT’S TIME TO GET UNPROFESSIONAL.

UNPROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT:
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s
Visual Arts Study Program:

Program Overview
The program will last six weeks with students and artists meeting three times a week for four-hour sessions. Each week will be led by a different artist chosen for their distinctive approach to making art in New York. Held in the context of a group exhibition titled “At Hand” at REDHEAD, students will have the rare opportunity to dissect, discover, and respond to the works in the space with a range of artists resulting in a student produced catalogue of the exhibition.

The Trip
At the beginning of each week, the group will meet at REDHEAD to meet the week’s artist presenter. From there we will proceed on a field trip – an art studio, private art collection, park, or other location that serves as a place of inspiration for the artist, giving the students an inside look at both the artist’s process and some of the best kept art secrets the city has to offer.

The Project
The second session will give the students the opportunity to meet one on one with the artist to discuss the exhibition at REDHEAD. As many of the presenting artists will also be in the show, this will provide the students with the rare opportunity to get into the artist’s head and formulate highly nuanced, individual responses to the work through the medium of their choice culminating in a student produced catalog of the show.

The Talk
The final session of each week will be a more formal presentation by the artist of his/her work. This exchange with the artist will allow students the opportunity to discuss the pertinent artistic and critical issues of the artists work. Following the talk, the students will have the opportunity to discuss the artist and his/her work in context of the entire program.