Chinatown, New York
Group Exhibition
Awesome Work!
All Street GalleryNew Design High School and All Street Gallery present Awesome Work!, the annual exhibition of work made by students at a small, design-focused, public high school on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. New Design High School seeks to break barriers in both public and design education, shaping a new paradigm of learning centered on students' lived experiences, relationships, and community. Across our students' four years at New Design, they take classes across creative disciplines – studio art, graphic design, 3D design, fashion, and textiles. We empower students to develop new artistic and design skills, take risks, develop their artistic voice, and prepare for a well-designed life after graduation. New Design High School uses design in all subjects to ignite the potential of our youth. Whether an ELA or Math class, we strive to honor the design process where students can ideate, test, and revise around problems. As an unscreened public school, we meet students where they are at, whether we are their first art and design teachers or they come with a portfolio of work, providing them time, space, and challenge to develop as artists, designers, and storytellers. Awesome Work! represents the culmination of students' year-long exploration in a variety of traditional, 2D, 3D, wearable, and experimental media, exploring concepts such as the self, art history, light and space, sustainability, and social justice. A student-run production, the work has been created and space curated by current students.