Seeking Sunshine – Help us bring skylights to our new studio
Beginning in September 2020, GCA will inhabit the top floor of One 12th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11215. Will you help us achieve our plan to build 12 natural light studios by contributing to our Skylight Fund?
Located in the dynamic Gowanus/Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn, our new studio is 30% bigger than our current building in LIC. With a 15 -year lease we are ready to build our programs and create a lasting impact. But we need your help to get up and running by September 2020!
The new studio will be awash in natural light. Nearby plein air painting locations include Red Hook, Prospect Park and Greenwood Cemetery. We look forward to joining the neighborhood’s lively art scene by participating in the annual Gowanus Open Studios and bringing our unique atelier to a new public!
Why I Support GCA
I am fascinated by observing the artistic process in young artists who are full of ambition, experimentation and passion for their work. To be able to offer scholarships to international students who can now come to the US and study at our premier school may be their dream come true. It is my privilege to help some of these students along financially and serve as a patron while they are here.
– David Boger (pictured on right along with John Britton, GCA Trustee)
Why I am Giving Back to GCA
I started at Grand Central Atelier as a student in 2009, and here I am, almost 11 years later still involved. I’ve been a teacher, I’ve been a curator, I’ve worn many hats over the years. Right now my most important role is as Chair of the Development Committee…a job that that mostly requires working to get wonderful people on board to help us out.
The GCA artists have been hugely influential and life-changing for me…I met my husband at GCA, I learned everything I know about painting at GCA. These incredible artists continue to be such a supportive community of my career and my creative ambitions, and are among my best friends. So I’m so grateful. Our school is filled with young artists trying to learn to make beautiful work to share with this world. It is a really special place and a worthy cause to support.
– Katie Whipple
The Best Four Years of my Life
As students, we learn through instruction but also through observing masters at work in their trade . . . the composing, framing, promoting and selling of their art. These and a host of other professional concerns are not traditionally taught in the academy or art school. At GCA, these lessons are an invaluable pragmatic skill set for today’s working artists.
– Ananda Fetherston, 4th Year Student
Pursuing Perfection
My practice as an artist has been informed by an attempt to reconnect with the historical life of an art that seems miraculous and unobtainable, alive and yet distant. The GCA grew naturally out of my studio, as artists have gathered to collaboratively design its curriculum. GCA has proved popular among young artists who strive to stand on the shoulders of history’s greats to achieve unparalleled skill and authenticity in their artwork.
– Jacob Collins, Founder
For further conversation about other ways to support GCA, get in touch with: Justine Kalb, our Executive Director at justine@grandcentralatelier.org or Katie Whipple, Chair of our Development Committee at katie@grandcentralatelier.org.
Or email us both! We’d love to hear your ideas.