ProjectArt

🎨 Calling visual artists!
ProjectArt’s Teaching Artist Residency is gearing up for 2025–26 with expanded support, new offerings, and a refreshed process to help you grow as both an educator and artist.

If you’re passionate about working with youth, love libraries, and believe in building community through art — this is for you.

🗓️ RFP available: April 7 (link in bio)
📢 Info Session: April 22 at 6:30 PM ET
✅ Proposals open: May 6

NYC Brooklyn • NYC Queens • Miami • Detroit • Pittsburgh • Cincinnati • Newark

Know someone who’d be a great fit? Tag them below!

Today we are highlighting Chen Li, a student at ProjectArt who exceptionally shined in our program this past April.✨

Chen takes ProjectArt classes at the Bushwick Library Branch in New York, with ProjectArt Resident Teaching Artist, Noormah Jamal. This spring, students participated in a creative project in which they explored illustration styles from books available at their library and created various animals each week with different mediums and collages.

A Note from Noormah:
“I have done collage work with them before. Once when making the empire state building and then when working on a lions mane. This week the scales were smaller so it required more concentration and focus, helping sharpen their fine motor-skills. I love how some of my students just jump in and experiment throughout. While others students are very particular and stick to a color theme or try out a new pattern.”

Our student survey responses showed that 87% of our 1,000+ students nationwide feel that making art helps them calm down. How cool is that?