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About Woodstock School of Art

The Woodstock School of Art offers excellence in fine art instruction, inspires creativity in a welcoming community, and builds on its rich artistic lineage and unique historic setting. Classes are held throughout the year in newly renovated and climate-controlled studios. Over one thousand students from the United States and countries abroad currently enroll in weekly classes and workshops. There are no entrance requirements or previous art experience necessary. Each class is an artist’s atelier combining the instructor’s viewpoint with the free and open dialogue necessary for artistic creativity. Because of its respect for the artists, for the artist’s way of life, and for the creative force that motivates artists, the school does not interfere in this vital exchange. Students select courses of their choosing, conducted by more than forty professional teaching artists. The studios and buildings of the Woodstock School of Art are listed in the National and New York State Registers of Historic Places. The structures had their beginnings in 1939, when they were commissioned as a school for arts and crafts under the National Youth Administration (NYA), one of the programs in FDR’s New Deal. Located in New York City, the League had formerly run a summer landscape branch in Woodstock from 1906 to 1922. Then in 1968, four of the artists who had been affiliated with the League—Franklin Alexander, Robert Angeloch, Lon Clark, and Wallace (Jerry) Jerominek—established the Woodstock School of Art (WSA). In 1981, two years after the Art Students League vacated the Woodstock property, the founders of WSA formally took over the buildings, incorporating as a not-for-profit. The Woodstock School of Art has been, is, and will continue providing a space for those who want to pursue or deepen their creative side.

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