Doing Art Together (DAT) is a non-profit arts education organization that provides hands-on programs to under-served audiences. DAT's programs build skills that enhance the ability to learn and are easily transferred from the classroom to life.
DAT's interactive workshops:
- Build self-confidence and self-expression,
- Encourage problem-solving and critical thinking,
- Enhance academic lessons,
- Expose participants to a wide variety of artistic disciplines that enhance and encourage job skills,
- Reach pre-K to high school students, teachers, parents, senior citizens and social service agency clients throughout New York City.
We offer Parent/Child
workshops in which adults and young children (ages 3-6) work with the
same art materials, each at their own level of development.
We offer hands-on visual art workshops for classes of pre-K, elementary,
junior high and high school students, parents and teachers and also for
senior citizens.
We offer professional development workshops for teachers and administrators.
We offer art workshop programs for special populations including Head
Start, special ed students, drug rehabilitation patients, teenage parents
and GED students.
We offer programs throughout the year:
The Doing Art Together
philosophy of art education emphasizes process. Doing Art Together believes
that the greatest value to be gained from doing art is often the experience
itself, internalized for future reference.
Trained art instructors encourage all students to experiment with a variety
of materials, express their own ideas and feelings and make discoveries.
With this emphasis on the relationship between thinking and doing art,
students develop invaluable tools for everyday living — imagination,
observation, and creative problem-solving skills.
The Doing Art Together philosophy embraces a non-judgmental approach to
art in which no student's work is considered better, or not as good as
that of another. In this supportive environment, everyone succeeds and
takes pride in a final exhibition.