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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 as a
total means of education.
At Children’s
Studio School, working in the arts is the core and framework for
comprehensive learning. The
organization’s mission is to develop divergent and
multidimensional capabilities of thinking, acting, knowing, and
intercultural understanding in young children for navigating the
complex world in which they live.
Current faculty
members include a dancer/choreographer who founded DC's first
all-male dance company, an interdisciplinary performance artist
and jazz vocalist, an award-winning architect and painter, the
winner of the 2002 Larry Neal Award for Poetry, a photographer and
microbiologist, and a cultural anthropologist and experimental
filmmaker--most of whom have taught on the undergraduate and
graduate level.
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