NYC

VTS has a long history in New York City, with its roots beginning at MoMA. Since 2006, the establishment of VTS programs in city public schools has been gaining momentum.

We are grateful to the New York State Council on the Arts, and Bill and Lisa Westheimer of NJ for their early support of schools in NYC and NJ respectively. And thanks to gifts from the HILO Foundation, The New York Community Trust, and the Matisse Foundation, we have been able to provide grants to subsidize starting costs for many schools, as well as provide every classroom teacher with initial VTS training in treasured museum collections across the city.

  • PS 110, Brooklyn
  • PS 119, Brooklyn
  • PS 123, Brooklyn
  • PS 145, Brooklyn
  • PS 274, Brooklyn
  • PS 84, Brooklyn
  • PS 20, Flushing, Queens
  • PS 49, Middle Village, Queens
  • PS 212, Jackson Heights, Queens
  • The Ethical Community Charter School, Brooklyn
  • Bronx Charter School for the Arts, Bronx

We are developing VTS trainers in this region and nationally by providing Professional Development Institutes and Lead Teacher Institutes in New York City each year. Participants in these institutes hone their skills facilitating VTS discussions throughout many of the city's cherished art collections, including:

  • The American Folk Art Museum
  • The Brooklyn Museum of Art
  • The Bronx Museum
  • The Museum of Modern Art
  • The Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • The Museum of the City of New York
  • The Isamu Noguchi Museum
  • and contemporary art galleries in the Chelsea neighborhood

VTS at the Newark Museum of Art

The Newark Museum of Art hosted professional development workshops for 200 school teachers from across the United States. The workshops focused on ways to use American art to connect with the study of American history and culture. Featured was the curriculum set developed by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) called "Picturing America," enhanced with examples of American art from its own collection.  The workshops also featured prominent American scholars and specialists ("Visual Thinking Strategies" and new media).

Amy Chase Gulden
Regional Director, VTS New York City
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VTS in New York is partially funded by:

  • The New York Department of Cultural Affairs
  • The New York Community Trust
  • The Matisse Foundation