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A Professional Artist Mentorship Program for High School Students
The program runs from October to June
Art Ready is a Mentorship Program designed to give high school students the opportunity to experience first hand what it is like to be a professional working in a visual arts discipline. Participating students meet a wide range of artists from emerging to well-known. Students who complete Smack Mellon’s Art Ready program are well informed, educated and prepared to make a decision about pursuing a future career in the arts.
Art Ready is led by Kathleen Gilrain, Smack Mellon’s Executive Director. Ms. Gilrain is an artist and is certified in New York State to teach art K-12. Ms. Gilrain has teaching experience at the elementary school and high school level as well as several years teaching at Brooklyn College.
Meetings take place on Wednesday afternoons from 4 to 6 pm from October through January. During this time the students will visit eighteen artists' studios. Art Ready visits artists in the fields of public art, film, painting, interior design, sculpture, landscape design, decorative painting, architecture, installation art, video and photography.
The program is open to high school sophomores, juniors, and seniors living in all areas of NYC who are interested in pursuing a career in the visual arts.
Finalists will be interviewed and twenty students will be selected with these criteria in mind: their interest in pursuing a career in the arts, their ability to attend the Artist Mentor visits and to complete an internship, and the quality of their application.
Please contact Jeanne Gerrity, Programs Manager, at 718-834-8761 or jgerrity@smackmellon.org.
