Youth Intensive Cycle Three
Building 9, Governors Island
December 4, 2022 to March 16, 2023
Shandaken Projects' Youth Intensive programs pay young artists a $15 per hour wage to attend art classes. This initiative, which has been offered annually or semi-annually since 2021, is made possible by a partnership with New York City's Department of Youth and Community Development.
Each year, up to 12 teenagers from New York City public schools can participate in a Summer Youth Intensive, and an additional 12 in a Winter Youth Intensive, if offered. Over 144 hours of class time, students learn new art techniques, and how art has intersected with social justice movements throughout history. With a special focus on how students' own stories and family history are interwoven with contemporary American society and discourse, a dedicated artist-educator facilitates creative projects that engage with ideas of cultural change.
During the program, participants learn printmaking techniques like monoprint, silkscreen, and Risography. Field trips to NYC institutions like MoMA, New Museum, Interference Archive, and the Met illustrate how other artists have encountered and digested political engagement, and collaborations with other programs like Swiss Institute Teens and Prep for Prep have created opportunities for teens to teach one another new skills.
Each cycle of the Intensive culminates in a presentation of the students' own artistic work in an exhibition that is free and open to the public.
This cycle of the Youth Intensive was facilitated by Patrick Costello.
Shandaken Projects' educational initiatives are generously supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, The New York State Council on the Arts, and The LeRoy Neiman and Janet Byrne Neiman Foundation.