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The Working Classroom visual
arts program promotes culturally diverse, non-traditional
and contemporary art. It provides aspiring artists with tuition-free
professional training, sponsors landmark public art projects
that contribute to social and economic transformation, operates
a downtown gallery showcasing the work of student and emerging
professional artists, offers important résumé-building
business opportunities for young and emerging artists and
provides residencies for sculptors, painters, mixed-media
and installation artists from historically ignored communities.
The street conservatory brings
high quality, economically and culturally accessible artistic
training to talented students who lack access to traditional
avenues of professional development. Students are exposed
to a variety of alternative and contemporary art forms and
techniques. The curriculum supports students' artistic impulses,
imagination and creativity while assisting their efforts to
acquire and control increasingly sophisticated techniques
to feed their individual creative discourse.
In studio classes, public art
and graphic design projects, students develop business skills
and artistic tools that bolster their applications to university
art programs, conservatory art schools, juried exhibits, galleries
and commissions.
The program includes a series
of art workshops, an annual Day of the Dead installation,
an alternative process photography exhibit, a Summer Arts
Institute, and a public art project
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