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Recognized by the D.C. Commission on the Arts and
Humanities, the National Association of Arts Education, EDU-
CATIONAL LEADERSHIP, and numerous artists, educators, and cu-
rators, Children's Studio School was selected for the first
and only show of children's art at The Phillips Collection,
ART FROM THE CHILDREN'S STUDIO SCHOOL. Last year [crossed out] In 1985 [hand-written, the School
was awarded the prestigous Mayor's Art Award for
extraordinary achievement in the arts and service to the
community.

Recently the School was awarded a $25,000 Chal-
lenge Grant from the Meyer Foundation to develop its Archi-
tecture Program in collaboration with the National Building
Museum. Through the museum, the School will be sharing its
architecture curriculum with students throughout the
metropolitan Washington D.C. area within the next two years;
and, thereafter, with educators nationally.

Actively committed to the development of teaching
excellence in the arts, the Children's Studio School
Internship Program offers intensive on-site professional
training in the arts and education fields. Coming from
universities throughout the country, interns spend a semester
working with master artists/teachers to develop personal
teaching approaches which link their respective fields with
the School's philosophy. Currently, the School is developing
a joint program with the Washington D.C. Board of Education
to provide workshops and on-site training in and through the
arts for public school teachers. As a result of the growing
interest and involvement of artists, art and museum educators
and other professionals, Children's Studio School is fast
becoming a national model for arts in education.

To ensure its perpetuity, Children's Studio
School's twin goals are to acquire its own building,
which would house additional teaching studios, studios for
adult artists, an Arts Education Resource Library and enough
space to accommodate an expanded program for children up to
age twelve; and to develop its endowment. In order to
maintain its cultural and economic diversity (currently 70%
of the children are from low-income families), Children's
Studio School depends upon broad-based support from private,
public and corporate sources.