Opportunities
Public Lectures
Curated lectures on a variety of topics are open to the public. RSVPs are encouraged.
Unless otherwise indicated, lectures are held in our adjacent gallery, Eleventh Street Arts.
View the current list of lectures.
Teens Open Sketch
Offered the Saturday before the weekly Teen class begins in the Fall.
For High School Teens Only.
Bring your own drawing and painting materials. We have easels, tabourets and wooden horses. Use only Odorless mineral spirits, please.
Eleventh Street Arts
Eleventh Street Arts is an art gallery for contemporary drawings, paintings and sculptures. Adjacent to the collaborative artist studios of Grand Central Atelier, Eleventh Street Arts presents new work that invokes, challenges, and celebrates the classical tradition. Occasionally, artists are invited to guest curate exhibitions. These shows are designed around the artistic choices of the curator.
The Alma Shapiro Prize
The Institute of Classical Architecture & Art is accepting applications for the Alma Schapiro Prize, a three-month fellowship at the American Academy in Rome. The prize is to advance the career of its artist recipient and foster the continuity of knowledge of the classical tradition as a vital aspect of contemporary culture around the globe. The award includes Academy fees, travel allotment and award stipend. Must be 21. Read more & Apply.
La Napoule Summer Landscape Painting Residency
Every summer, GCA partners with La Napoule Art Foundation to provide two artists with a residency on the grounds of the 14th Century Chateau de La Napoule in the historic seaside town of Mandelieu-la Napoule. The chateau is a French historical monument renowned for its restoration and architectural details. Located on six acres full of natural beauty and views of the sea, a public beach is also nearby.
The residency covers lodging, breakfast and travel back and forth from the Nice airport. Artists are housed in villa rooms with a private bath. There is a kitchen for cooking, and markets and restaurants nearby. Artists need only speak the language of art, no French necessary.
2019 Residency dates are TBD.
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Application deadline will be May 1, 2019.
The Hudson River Fellowship
The Hudson River Fellowship builds and inspires a new movement of American art, modeling itself after the artistic, social and spiritual values of the Hudson River School painters. It brings together the reawakening enthusiasm for the old American painters, the vigorous but unfocused scene of contemporary landscape painting and the urgent need for a renewed reverence for the land. By bringing back the skills and spirit of the pre-impressionist landscape painters the program gives focus and direction to a new generation of painters. As artists learn to carefully study and reflect on the trees and clouds and blades of grass and cliffs, streams and oceans, they will build a relationship with the rich beauty of the natural world that will be evoked in their paintings. Ideally, these artists and their works of art will help to lead the culture back to a stronger connection to the landscape. The fellowship seeks to make a contribution both to the art world and the conservation movement.
A summer landscape retreat, the Hudson River Fellowship is currently on hiatus as we search for a new location. Sign up for our newsletter to stay informed.
Previous partnerships have included the Catskill Mountain Foundation’s Sugar Maple Center for Creative Arts in New York and the Jackson Historical Society in New Hampshire. If you’re interested in partnering with us to help host the HRF, please email us.