Studio in a school association operates two programmatically and financially independent LLC's: - studio in a school NYC, LLC reaffirms the organization's commitment to CORE direct service and each year provides quality visual arts instruction to 30,000 students from PRE-k through 12th grade, in-school and after-school, in partnership with 200 schools and educational sites citywide. - studio institute, LLC provides professional learning programs for educational systems, partnership programs with cultural and community organizations, arts internships, and the dissemination of arts education research in local and national forums. With a mandate to replicate and disseminate studio's model, the institute now offers programs in boston, cleveland, memphis, newark, philadelphia and providence, as well as in new YORK city. In both LLC's, studio's approach is distinguished by: - the commitment of our artist instructors, who are professional, exhibiting artists trained in studio's methodology; - a practice of genuine collaboration with educational and cultural partners; - a dedication to share our teaching practice through professional development and training to our artist instructors and public school art teachers; - curricula and learning experiences that are AGE-appropriate and materials-RICH, and that have measurable impacts; - a consistent practice on accountability.