ProjectArt

Award winning NYC-based arts education nonprofit, providing free after-school visual arts classes and

04/07/2025

🎨 Calling visual artists!
ProjectArt’s Teaching Artist Residency is gearing up for 2025–26 with expanded support, new offerings, and a refreshed process to help you grow as both an educator and artist.

If you’re passionate about working with youth, love libraries, and believe in building community through art — this is for you.

🗓️ RFP available: April 7 (link in bio)
📢 Info Session: April 22 at 6:30 PM ET
✅ Proposals open: May 6

NYC Brooklyn • NYC Queens • Miami • Detroit • Pittsburgh • Cincinnati • Newark

Know someone who’d be a great fit? Tag them below!

06/27/2024

Statistics show that Art Education greatly impacts students communication skills. Art Education provides a way for students to express themselves in ways that may be difficult to articulate verbally.

Source: The Impact of Arts Eduation of Workforce Preparation: National Governor’s Association, Center for Best Practices

06/19/2024

Today, ProjectArt is highlighting our Cincinnati Student Showcases that took place in May. We had so much fun celebrating our talented young students from our two Cincinnati library branches - West End and Avondale. Parents and family had the opportunity to view all of the art projects our students created this school year.

A big thanks to our Resident Teaching Artists Lindsey Whittle and Dutana D**o for all of their hard work and dedication to teaching this year. Thank you to West End & Avondale Library branches for hosting these student showcases

Enjoy these highlights!🪻🪻🪻

06/12/2024

On Friday, May 24th, ProjectArt held our Pittsburgh Student and Resident Artist Reception including artwork from our traveling exhibition, featuring artists from Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, and Los Angeles.

We are extremely grateful to everyone who joined us to celebrate our talented Pittsburgh Students and Resident Artists. Resident Artists include: Nikki Kurt, Teresa Audet, Liseth Amaya, Dutana D**o, and Sparklezilla (Lindsey Whittle). A huge thanks to Lead Artist Teresa Audet for all the hard work that went into planning this night. Our gratitude to for hosting our event in your space. Enjoy highlights from this beautiful night!✨

05/29/2024

On Friday, May 17th, ProjectArt held our Miami Resident Artist Reception💫

We are thankful to the wonderful viewers who attended and celebrated our talented Miami Resident Artists: Alana Barrett, Halley Bohm, Nerea Arce Masnú, Silvana Soriano, and Sophia Wong. A special thanks to .pdf who put countless hours into planning this wonderful event. Swampspace () provided such an amazing space for this exhibition - thank you.

Take a look at some memories from this show.🫶🏼

05/22/2024

Today we are highlighting Chen Li, a student at ProjectArt who exceptionally shined in our program this past April.✨

Chen takes ProjectArt classes at the Bushwick Library Branch in New York, with ProjectArt Resident Teaching Artist, Noormah Jamal. This spring, students participated in a creative project in which they explored illustration styles from books available at their library and created various animals each week with different mediums and collages.

A Note from Noormah: “I have done collage work with them before. Once when making the empire state building and then when working on a lions mane. This week the scales were smaller so it required more concentration and focus, helping sharpen their fine motor-skills. I love how some of my students just jump in and experiment throughout. While others students are very particular and stick to a color theme or try out a new pattern.”

05/15/2024

ProjectArt Artist Feature: Meet Detroit artist, India Solomon! India works at the Sherwood Forest Library in Detroit, Michigan with . She teaches students ages 4-18. Slide through the carousel to see a glimpse into India’s portfolio!✨

Artist Statement:
India Solomon is a Detroit-based, abstract visual artist from the city’s Westside, and she has family across the globe. India paints as a means of wayfinding, releasing, and channeling a more grounded version of the present. India’s life has always been deeply relational, and it shows in her work that she has had the privilege of learning love in many different forms. Channeling home, intuition, and movement India’s current art practice spans original paintings, mid-scale murals, thoughtful garments, and home goods.

05/08/2024

Program Highlight: Checking in with our Cincinnati classes📚

📍West end Library Branch
Resident Teaching Artist, Lindsey Whittle teaches students about foreground and background in space. This project involved creating landscape silhouettes from fabric.

📍Avondale Library Branch
Resident Teaching Artist, Dutana teaches students different print and mark-making methods, using natural outdoor elements, the sun, ink, and other materials. This project allowed students to gain in-depth knowledge of color theory.

05/01/2024

Our student survey responses showed that 87% of our 1,000+ students nationwide feel that making art helps them calm down. How cool is that?

04/24/2024

Take a look at what one of our Detroit Library branches has been up to the past few weeks.

📍In Sherwood Forest library, excitement is high as students prepare for their upcoming Exhibition! This project allowed students flexibly revisit foundational techniques like still life-drawing, portraits, and sculpture. Each class was designed with one primary exercise, but gave students the opportunity to refine something they’ve already started, or create new works that they would like included their show.

Thanks to our resident artist India Solomon () for designing this project!

04/17/2024

We wanted to highlight a student who shined exceptionally in our program this past March: Leah Kuentzel✨

Leah takes ProjectArt classes at the North Central Library Branch in Miami, with ProjectArt Resident Teaching Artist, Silvana Soriano. In March, students participated in a creative project that introduced them to self expression through exploring the unique realm of printmaking portraiture.

A Note from Silvana:
“Students love printmaking – the surprising results are a big draw. Expressionism, centered on emotions, excited them (as I expected!). Most enjoyed the process and were open to try multiple times. Leah, normally quiet, talked a little about her and other works, surprised me with her enthusiasm and even took the risk of producing more images.”

04/11/2024

Libraries are not just repositories of books, they are portals to new worlds, gateways to the past, present and future, and catalysts for learning, growth and change. - Carla Hayden

Happy National Library Week! We are beyond grateful to have our library partners host ProjectArt programming in 10 different cities since 2011.

We couldn’t do this without you, Thank You!

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