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ELIGIBILITY
  • Open to New York City residents

SITE ACCESSIBILITY
  • Functionally Accessible

SPECIAL EDUCATION SERVICES
  • Collaborative Team Teaching (CTT)
  • SETSS
  • Special Class

ELL PROGRAMS
  • ESL
  • Bilingual Programs
    • Chinese
    • Spanish

ENROLLMENT (10/31/2008)
  • Grades Served (2010 - 2011): 09,10,11,12

SCHOOL STATISTICS AND REPORTS
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IN THEIR OWN WORDS
For over seventy years, the High School of Art and Design has nurtured talented students through its extensive art program to become accomplished professionals. Located in the heart of New York City’s cultural center, we are a community of scholars dedicated to fostering the creative and academic talents of each of our gifted art students. We are nationally known for our design programs in architecture, fashion design, graphic design, illustration and digital photography and video technology. Graduates from our school are leaders in the field of art and the community at large.

COURSES AND PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS
Programs: Architecture, Visual Art and Design, Honors Art, Digital Photography and Filmmaking, Graphic Design, Game Design, Curatorial Studies (Gallery Design), Virtual Enterprise: Interior Design Firm, Web Design, Advertising, College Now, Portfolio Development, Saturday Enrichment, School of Visual Arts (SVA) Liberty Partnership, Professional Mentoring, Link Employment and Responsibility Now (LEARN)
Language Classes: Chinese (Mandarin), French, Spanish
Advanced Placement Courses: Art History, Biology, Calculus AB, Chemistry, English Language and Composition, English Literature and Composition, Spanish Language, Studio Art: 2-D Design, Studio Art: Drawing, United States History, World History

PARTNERSHIPS
  • Community-Based Organizations: Friends of Art and Design
  • Higher Education Institutions: Parsons School of Design, Hunter College, School of Visual Arts (SVA), Fashion Institute of Technology, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York Institute of Technology
  • Cultural/Arts Organizations: Museum of Modern Art, Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, PS Art, American Institute of Architects (AIA), Center for Architecture Foundation, The Art Directors Club, Museum of Arts and Design, Center for Arts Education, Museum of African Art, Greenwich House Music School, Roundabout Theatre Company, Studio in a School, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • Not-for-Profit: American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA), Urban Land Institute, Junior Achievement, Young Audiences New York
  • Corporate: David Yurman, Louis Vuitton, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, KPMG Accounting, Apple, Virtual Enterprise International
  • Financial Institutions: Work in Support of Education (W.I.S.E.) Economics Program
  • Other: New York State Liberty Partnership with School of Visual Arts
EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES
Leadership & Support: Macaulay Honors, NY Cares, Princeton University, School Student Leaders, National Honor Society, Peer Tutoring, Teen Tutoring
Academic: The Art Students League of New York, New York (NY) Cares/Kaplan Saturday SAT Prep, School of Visual Arts (SVA) Tutoring
Artistic: Annual special events including exhibitions at the United Nations and numerous other area cultural centers, Spring Arts Festival, Arts Cafe, Literary Arts Journal, Theater Arts, Fashion Show, exhibitions in Kenny Art Gallery, The Art Directors Club, Apollo Theater, Sweat Equity Enterprises, Municipal Art Society, AIGA NYC Mentoring
Clubs: Yearbook, Newspaper, Literary Journal, Old Hat, Mock Trial, Weightlifting, Drama, Animation, Ceramics, Silk Screening, Gay/Straight Alliance, Music, Photoshop, Portfolio Development

PSAL SPORTS TEAMS
Boys: Baseball, Basketball, Bowling, Fencing, Soccer, Volleyball
Girls: Basketball, Softball, Volleyball

SCHOOL SPORTS
Weight Training, Nautilus Training, Spinning, Basketball, Volleyball, Aerobic Training, Team Handball

SCHOOLWIDE AWARDS & RECOGNITION
Random House World of Expression, Ezra Keats Bookmaking Competition, New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU), Scholastic Art Awards, Linea Magazine (Art Students League Journal), United Federation of Teachers-New York Press Photography (UFT-NYPP), Delta Gamma
PROGRAM CODE SELECTION METHOD GRADE 2008 PROGRAM SEATS 2008 TOTAL APPLICANTS
Architectural Design; Art & Design (Visual Art & Design)
After 9th grade Foundation, students select one of the following majors: Architectural Design, Cartooning & Animation, Fashion Design/Costume Design, Illustration and Graphic Design or Digital Photo/Film. Each program becomes 3 year CTE sequence.
M60J Audition 9 N/A N/A
10 N/A N/A

Audition Information: Present a Portfolio consisting of 10-20 pieces in a variety of media. Audition consists of a portfolio evaluation and art assessment. For the assessment, students will be asked to draw from a live model, draw from imagination, solve spatial problems.
Visual Art & Design Audition
For audition for all programs, bring a Portfolio of 10-20 pieces of work, as well as pens, pencils, erasers and rulers. The audition will take approximately two and one-half hours. The Portfolio should be in a variety of media indicating the breadth of the applicant's artistic expression.
Audition GroupDateStart TimeEnd Time
Manhattan and Staten IslandSaturday, November 14, 20098:45 AM 
Brooklyn and QueensSaturday, November 21, 20098:45 AM 
BronxSaturday, December 05, 20098:45 AM 
Brooklyn and ManhattanSaturday, December 12, 20098:45 AM 
Sabbath Observers and ConflictsSunday, December 20, 20098:45 AM 
IMPORTANT INFORMATION
  • Extended Day Program
  • Our school requires an Artistic Portfolio for graduation
  • Students enjoy Art Studio time for an hour and a half every day throughout their four year high school career.
  • Interested parents may request individual tours with their children. Please call the school at 212-752-4340 for more information.

OPEN HOUSE INFORMATION
Join us for our Open Houses on October 15th, October 29th, November 12th, or December 3rd, 2009. Sessions begin at 5:30 PM and again at 6:00 PM. Each session will be followed by a building tour and classroom presentation. Parents and prospective students are welcome to tour Art and Design High School and meet faculty and students. The Open House will also include discussions designed to prepare students for our examination and the portfolio assessment.

SHOWCASE INFORMATION
Prospective students are welcome to visit our Kenny Art Gallery during our exhibits. Please call the school for the schedule of exhibits for the fall of 2009.

DID YOU KNOW?
  • Founded in 1938 as the School of Industrial Art, Art and Design today has become a leading center for emerging designers and artists who see the value of an arts focus in an intensive academic environment. The school looks forward to a new multi-million dollar state of the art facility designed by Skidmore, Owings and Merrill (SOM) on a nearby site scheduled to open in 2012.
  • We provide internships with notable design firms to seniors in their specialized art majors.
  • Our new college and career center is a state-of-the-art model for planning one's future.
  • The art teachers at Art and Design are all experienced art professionals. Several have illustrated novels and children's books. One former teacher designed the Heisman Trophy. One current teacher has designed postage stamps for several countries. Many current teachers are active in the New York City art scene exhibiting regularly in galleries on 57th St. and beyond.
  • Our graduates are currently attending Parsons School of Design, Pratt Institute, Columbia University, Cornell University, Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT), School of Visual Arts (SVA), State University of New York (SUNY) Albany, Binghamton, Purchase and Stony Brook, Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), Cooper Union, Adelphi University, Alfred College, Baruch College, Brooklyn College, City College of New York, Colgate University, Fordham University, Hunter College, John Jay College, New York University, Penn State University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), Rochester Institute of Technology, Sarah Lawrence University, St. John's University, Syracuse University, University of Massachusetts, New York Institute of Technology (NYIT) and many other notable colleges and universities.

FAMOUS ALUMNI
Fashion Designer, Calvin Klein; Singer and Painter, Tony Bennett; Actor, Harvey Fierstein; Animator, Ralph Bakshi; Photographer, Steven Meisel; Novelist, Art Speigelman; News Anchor, John Johnson; Fashion Designer, Marc Jacobs; Filmmakers, George and Michael Kuchar; Photographer, Sheila Metzner; Actor, Lawrence Hilton Jacobs; Model, Leonardo Jimenez; Animator, Tom Sito; Animator, James Parris; and hundreds and hundreds of professionals working in art departments and creative endeavors in Manhattan and the world

QUOTES
"I find that there are few experiences that have profoundly shaped and enriched me. One is my youth in Italy, the love of my family, and the other was my good fortune of meeting the dedicated teachers and friends of the Art and Design Early Morning Group." - Lino Saffioti, Graphic Artist, Illustrator, Painter, Alumnus of Art and Design; "You walk into Art and Design with an interest in art, but you walk out an artist." - James Harrington, Teacher, Alumnus of Art and Design; "Art and Design includes a group of students and teachers who profoundly change the course of art history, spawning generations of artists whose parallel visions would culminate and add to the reemergence of representational art, sometimes referred to as New York Realism, and shown in galleries and museums across the United States." - Garin Baker, Artist, Alumnus of Art and Design
HIGH SCHOOL DIRECTORY
Art and Design High School, DBN 02M630 , Borough of Manhattan