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In 1977, Children’s Studio School, a community-based
non-profit arts organization and full-day school of the arts and
architecture, ushered in a radical concept: a school where very young
children (initially three – five years old) of diverse abilities, learning styles, and economic
and cultural backgrounds work in studios with highly developed artists/teachers
throughout the day, as a total means of education.
At Children’s Studio School, working in the arts is both
the core and the means of
manifesting the organization’s primary mission of inspiring and guiding young
children to develop divergent and multidimensional capabilities of
thinking, acting, knowing, and intercultural understanding in order to navigate
the complex world in which they live; and to seek creative solutions to help others
within our communities, here and throughout the planet.
An essential tenet of Studio School’s
mission is the belief that the younger the child, the more experienced
should be her/his teacher.
Current faculty and
associates, artists and architects from Greneda, Kenya, Morocco, Spain, Senegal, and Taiwan,
include an interdisciplinary performance artist, jazz vocalist and painter,
an award-winning architect, a griot percussionist, a Berber visual artist,
an eco-artist, and an experimental photographer --most of whom have taught at universities, both undergraduate and graduate
students.
Studio School is committed to working with children,
families and communities, in DC and throughout the world through its Urban Arts Complex, including:
professional development academy
for teachers, artists and other educators; and Artists and Communities programs,
such as performances, weekend and evening workshops, Studio Cafe, After 4 Studio and City As Studio.
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