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During the last few weeks, our schools presented their winter 2024 student exhibitions and the feedback has been amazing. The images coming across my desk represent a wide variety of compelling projects and spectacular outcomes, and you can clearly tell that our students have been fully engaged in the creative process. To be clear, we…
The statue depicted, “The Embrace,” is one of the most interesting and compelling works of art. It is inspired by a photograph of Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King embracing and the statue sits in Boston Common. Created by artist Hank Willis Thomas and MASS Design Group, the purpose of the statue is to…
This artwork from Cameron Welch is one that I absolutely love. I find it to be optimistic and it provides me with a feeling of hope that is so important to be thinking about as we move into the holidays and wind down this year. It is my perspective that we all have a level…
That’s a broad question. On one hand, the image above looks pretty cool and was generated in seconds via Open Art AI. “Holiday Season Contemporary Painting Colorful” was the prompt and in seconds this image was created. There are so many ways to look at this topic, but to tell you the truth, it falls…
As I get older, one of the things that makes me happiest is to share some joy and help others. So, I thought I would take a minute to pass along some thoughts after Thanksgiving so that we can keep the gratitude going that I felt last week. Recently, I was reading the latest issue…
The image you’re looking at was taken last week on a random pop-in at One River School in Larchmont, NY. It is also indicative of what’s happening at each of our locations. We have been able to create a new method that is inspiring teens artists to have more fun and make more compelling artwork…
When I started One River School, I wanted to create an art school that focused on more than just painting. So, we created our core program Art Shuffle® to allow students to try all aspects of artmaking by “shuffling” the projects regularly which allows them a journey across all media. Take a look at the project above:…
One of the guideposts of One River School is to “teach through the lens of living artists”. This allows us to create context for artists who are showing their work today and to honor their contributions to society by writing lesson plans about them and creating context for the work they are doing. And, Lonnie…
This past Saturday, we held the grand opening for our 15th and newest location in Manhasset, NY and I am so excited. Some things are simply worth waiting for. The origin of our new school in Manhasset, NY was when we signed our lease in 2019, but the pandemic and other factors delayed our construction…
It is amazing how things have changed. Now that we live in a world where visual content is crucial in all aspects of business and life, artists and creative types are benefiting dramatically. The argument that Science & Math rule and Artmaking is not a required skill has been debunked. Still, most schools don’t provide…