The Saturday Program Spring 2023 Year End Show

This month, The Saturday Program hosted the opening to its annual Year End Show, where high school students shared their artwork with family, friends, and the Cooper Union community. The exhibition, mounted in the Foundation Building and the Benjamin Menschel Civic Projects Lab, is the culmination of students' work over the last several months of collaborating with Cooper student-instructors. 

To read more about the program, view the Fall 2022 Open Studios.

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The Saturday Program is made possible by generous support of the Altman Foundation, Jacques and Natasha Gelman Foundation, Jeffrey and Paula Gural Foundation, Keith Haring Foundation, Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, and the Richard and Jean Coyne Family Foundation.

All photos by Argenis Apolinario

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