The New York Studio School provides an alternative to prevailing trends in American art schools. Since its founding in 1964, it has provided students with a unique experience. The Studio School's aim is to be instrumental in training young painters and sculptors in their development as professional artists.

To this end, the School has established priorities of study and a simplified curriculum to parallel an artist's normal working day. On the basis of this day in the studio, with criticism by mature artists and his or her peers, and with the further stimulus of evening talks and seminars, the student is encouraged to discover what is important to him or her.

The School provides an environment which encourages students to sustain a continuity of work on their own. Only with such continuity can they develop the powers of observation, the patience, the capacity for total absorption in work so necessary to the life of an artist.