The New York Studio Program - AICAD
THE STUDIOS
Each New York Studio Program participant who has chosen the Independent Studio Option will have a studio measuring 8 x 12 feet (2.4 x 3.65 meters) with 3 walls.
8 of those studios are divided by sliding walls and are larger. Of those 8, 6 have 2 large walls with the third being a window wall looking out on the street with either west or south light.
All studio walls and floors are freshly painted each semester.
There are 20 studios. If in any semester there is a studio unoccupied it is offered to an Internship Option participant or participants, although Internship participants rarely have time for studio work because of the demands of their employment.
Each studio is equipped with a work table, chair and 4 to 5 quartz track lights. Participants may bring in any other equipment or furniture relative to their work or comfort. Students wishing privacy may install a curtain across the open side.
The New York Studio Program has established a rule that no one person has the right to dominate the program space and that each participant shall be able to create her or his art work in an atmosphere of peace and quiet.
For those reasons several established regulations are in effect at all times in the studios:
- 1. no smoking;
- 2. no alcoholic beverages or controlled substances;
- 3. no music without headphones;
- 4. no loud sounds of any kind;
- 5. no entering another’s studio without permission.
The set-up of the studios and the established rules parallel those practiced in the studios of the more than 100,000 professional artists in New York.