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• Posted By: WAF Staff
• Posted On: May 13, 2012
• Views: 284
• Category: Art Education » Art Schools
• Description: To appreciate the New York Studio School, one should know why and how it came about. In September of 1963, an article appeared in ARTnews by painter and educator Mercedes Matter, which gave voice to the grievance of many art students who felt frustrated by the frantic pace and fragmented courses of contemporary art education. It criticized art education for what it had become, contrasting it with the character of what academies of fine arts and artists' ateliers had been.
• Location: New York, NY, USA

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• Phone: +1 (212) 673-6466
• Website: www.nyss.org

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