Visionary Studios: Saturday Workshop

Student artwork on display in a gallery.

Student sitting at a table and working on her project

Student artwork of a gun

Student work from Hurricanes, Fires, Floods

Visionary Studio: Saturday Art Workshop is a 9-week program that allows students to envision and teach an arts based social justice curriculum with high school students coming from across New York City and New Jersey. From 10am–12pm on Saturday mornings, teachers and teens explore significant and timely social themes and draw upon a rich array of innovative, multidisciplinary approaches to generate visual research and represent ideas. A final exhibition of student work invites a wide audience of families, friends, teachers, and NYU faculty to see their work. Classes are free and open to 9-12th grade students with any level of art experience. Students do not need a portfolio to apply. Classes run from March through May during the Spring semester. New class themes, program dates, and registration information is released in January.

See current Visionary Studios program themes and registration information

2022 Visionary Studios: Online Exhibition

2022 Class Themes: Manufacturing Education, My Body My Choice, Empty Bowls, You-Me-Us-Them

2021 Visionary Studios: Online Exhibition

2021 Class themes: Contagious Times, Defund the Police, Silent No More, There Is No Place Like Home, and Women Lead

2020 Visionary Studios: Online Exhibition

Visionary Studios Art Exhibit 2020

2020 Class Themes: Designing Beyond the Binary, Identity in the Digital Age, The Art of Appropriation, Reimagining NYC

2019 Visionary Studios Exhibition: We Are Now

Group of students from Visionary Studio 2018

2019 Class Themes: Stop! Don’t Shoot, Breaking the Silence on Gender Violence, Border Crossers

2018 Visionary Studios Exhibition: 100 Ways to Mobilize

Entrance to Visionary Studio exhibition 100 Ways to Mobilize

2018 Class themes: Hurricanes, Fires, and Floods, Manufacturing Addiction, White Out!

2016 Visionary Studios Exhibition: Freedoms

Group posing in front of Freedoms exhibition sign 2016 Class Themes: No Justice No Peace , Gender Lines, (Un)Plugged, Vote This

2015 Visionary Studios Fall

Photo from 2015 Visionary Studio Exhibition

2015 Class Themes: A Matter of Time, Going Home, Farm to Table

2014 Visionary Studios: What Has Been Said to You?

2014 Class Themes: It’s How You Say It, Visualizing The Process