Experimental Study Program for Teens
Image: New Museum Experimental Study Program, fall 2019
Applications due February 9
This spring, the New Museum offers its free semester-long program for young people aged fifteen to nineteen. Participants will meet from 4 to 6 p.m. every Wednesday from February 26 to April 29 (excluding April 15). Now in its fourteenth season, this program provides youth the chance to learn about contemporary art and engage in intimate, critical discussions about culture.
Through a series of workshops, young people will have the opportunity to collaborate meaningfully with peers and guest artists. This season, the Experimental Study Program (ESP) will explore contemporary portraiture and figuration. The program will take as its starting point the work of Jordan Casteel, whose exhibition “Within Reach” includes large-scale paintings of people she encounters in various settings, including individuals from her neighborhood of Harlem and, more recently, her students at Rutgers University-Newark. Participants will meet Casteel and discuss ideas and approaches to portraiture with her. Throughout the remainder of the season, we will consider the variety of ways that she and other artists use the figure—from expressive and intimate to wildly satirical, abstract, and surreal depictions of the human form—experiment with their own, and reflect on how these choices intersect with identity, representation, social histories, and imaginations.
The Museum seeks applications from people between ages fifteen and nineteen who are curious about contemporary art and enthusiastic about connecting with other teens.
The Experimental Study Program is free.
How to Apply:
- Click here to apply.
- Fill out the application and respond to the prompts.
- Include the contact information of a teacher, a counselor, or a supervisor who can provide a reference.
- Submit the completed application by February 9, 2020.
Youth Programs
New Museum
235 Bowery
New York, NY 10002
Contact youthprograms@newmuseum.org or 212.219.1222 ×231 with questions.
Sponsors:
Generous lead support is provided by the Keith Haring School, Teen, and Family Programs Fund.
The New Museum’s Experimental Study Program is made possible by Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield’s Bruce Eagelson Arts Education Program.
New Museum school and teen programs are made possible, in part, by Con Edison, Bloomingdale’s, the May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation, the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
Additional endowment support is provided by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund; the Skadden, Arps Education Programs Fund; and the William Randolph Hearst Endowed Fund for Education Programs at the New Museum.