New York Academy of Art

Spend a day with SURP 🌟

The New York Academy of Art’s Summer Undergraduate Residency Program (SURP) is a four week intensive program designed for ambitious undergraduates and recent graduates ready to refine their craft and expand their artistic voice.

As a SURP student, you’ll study in Academy classrooms, work in dedicated studio spaces designed for creativity and exploration, and showcase your work in a final exhibition at the Academy’s gallery. Beyond the studio, you’ll dive headfirst into the New York art scene—attending gallery openings, touring world renowned museums, and gaining insider access to private artist studios.

Today, we’re taking a look at one of our Art and Culture classes with Angel. During these weekly classes, students travel all around the city, getting a feel for just what makes New York City’s culture so rich and vibrant. For this first class, we trekked from the Brooklyn Museum to galleries in NoHo, all the way to our very own NYYA alum Tal Tamam recent solo show opening in the West Village.

Ever wondered what it would be like to solve a cold case? Here at the Academy, we have a class for that.

For over 10 years, we’ve collaborated with leading forensic institutions and forensic imaging expert Joe Mullins () to offer a one-of-a-kind workshop. Using 3D-printed skulls from real cold cases, our students apply their extensive training in anatomy and sculpture to reconstruct the faces of missing and unidentified persons. These reconstructions are shared with law enforcement in an effort to help identify the unknown and bring hope and humanity to unsolved mysteries.

Congratulations to our students for completing another year of amazing work and of helping reunite lost loved ones with their families.

Come build a life size sculpture with our Sculpture II Class  ✨

As part of our spring sculpture curriculum, students produce two figures of life scale in this course with .personett, all while developing conceptual and formal basis for independent work. The class is designed to give students the technical and formal basis for independent work while directing them toward gaining a better understanding of how to bring final pieces to closure. Here’s a look at how this year’s students’ sculptures developed throughout the semester!

Want to try your own hand at sculpting at a life size scale? Apply to our MFA program to participate in one of the many sculpture classes the Academy has to offer!

Late Decision Deadline: June 5th
Start your application now: http://www.nyaa.edu/apply

Stuck between an art school that’ll give you technical training and one with room to play? Don’t settle! Get yourself a school that can do both 🤗

Here at the academy, we’re committed to giving our students traditional technical training to inform contemporary discourse and artistic practices.

Our Unusual Materials & Stop Motion Animation class with .art is just one example of the many unique courses we offer to push the boundaries of our students’ practices. In this class, students will learn how to incorporate unusual materials and gain a deeper understanding of how and why they use the materials they do, all while learning to wield time as a medium in their work.

Want to join in on the fun?
Apply to our MFA or CFA programs!

Late Decision Deadline: June 5th
Start your application now:
http://www.nyaa.edu/apply

With the spring semester freshly behind us, here’s a look at how some of our Copying at the MET class’ students’ final paintings turned out after several weeks of intense work!

Our Copying at the MET with .york provides students with the unique opportunity to copy paintings directly from originals in the galleries of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (), a long-established practice that has been crucial in the education of many of the greatest painters in history, and as a part of the curriculum offered here at the Academy.. This one of a kind course is just one of many unique classes available for our MFA students to take during the academic year.

Apply to our MFA program to participate in our Copying at the MET class, along with the many other career shaping classes the Academy has to offer!

Late Decision Deadline: June 5th
Start your application now:
http://www.nyaa.edu/apply

A look back at our 2026 commencement ceremony last week 🎓🥂

We’re already missing our recent grads, but happy to see our alumni family at grow!

It’s that time of year: Studio Move outs, the end of an era ✨ Watch how our MFA students prepare to clear out their workspaces before the summer begins and our CFA and SURP students take over!

DISCLAIMER: Move out deadlines are not, in fact, right before commencement :) but as they say, early bird gets the worm!

Meet the Faculty: John Jacobsmeyer

John Jacobsmeyer teaches printmaking as a way of thinking through process.

In his classes, every mark matters. Etching, carving, and drawing all leave a visible record, evidence of decisions made in real time.

Prints become more than images; they reveal how something was made, carrying a sense of structure, intention, and mystery within the surface.

Congratulations to our MFA class of 2026 on completing their final critiques of the semester! Here’s a small peak at the late nights and hard work that our students put into preparing for the big day.

Make sure to stop by Open Studios this Thursday from 5:30 pm - 8:30 pm to see the artwork from our class of 2026’s final thesis exhibitions, as well as work from our first year and CFA students in person! RSVP at nyaa.edu/openstudios or at the link in our bio by EOD to attend.

With Open Studios almost here, anticipation is high here at the Academy. What are our students manifesting this time? We took another visit to their studios to find out — but this time, in Spanish ✨

Join us on May 7 from 5:30–8:30PM at 111 Franklin Street, NYC to tour 100 artist studios and experience the 2026 MFA Thesis Exhibition for yourself! It’ll be a night of inspiration, conversation, incredible art — and incredible artists — that you won’t want to miss.

The event is free and open to the public. RSVP at nyaa.edu/openstudios or at the link in our bio!