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Facilities & Special Collections
The Academy occupies a renovated five-story, forty-thousand square foot landmark building. During their course of study, all students are provided with either communal or semi-private studio space as dictated by their program track and progress in the course.
Cast Collection
The cast collection consists of nineteenth-century plaster casts of Classical, Renaissance and later European sculpture, most on extended loan from the Royal Academy Collections, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Harvard University, Cornell University and Amherst College. Beginning in the summer of 2002, the Academy began an extensive restoration program of its collection.
Library
The New York Academy of Art library exists to meet student and faculty needs for textual and visual materials in support of the Academy’s programs and curriculum. For more information on library facilities, click here.
Drawing Resource Room and Exhibition Spaces
On view in the Drawing Resource Room are a number of casts as well as anatomical models. These are available for coursework and independent student study. There are several areas of wall space available for small faculty-curated shows of student work. Public exhibitions and lectures are held in the Lawrence and Josephine C. Wilkinson Hall, in which a large portion of the cast collection is on permanent display.
Location
The Academy is located at 111 Franklin Street, between Church Street and West Broadway in the lower Manhattan historic district of TriBeCa, which hosts its own annual film festival. Once a commercial area and the city's primary distribution center for textiles and dry goods, TriBeCa's warehouses and lofts were renovated beginning in the 1970s and proved especially appealing to artists and small businesses. The neighborhood's industrial and residential structures, many designed by famous architects. TriBeCa and its neighboring districts, SoHo and Chelsea, are noted for their restaurants, boutiques, galleries, museums and large population of artists. Also nearby are New York's Chinatown and the cluster of municipal buildings that includes Federal Plaza and City Hall.
New York City's numerous world-class museums, essential resources for artists, are easily accesssible by public transportation from the Academy. They include the Asia Society, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Chelsea Art Museum, Dahesh Museum, Museo del Barrio, Frick Collection, Hispanic Society of America, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Morgan Library, Museum of Arts & Design, Museum of Modern Art, Neue Galerie New York, New Museum of Contemporary Art, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Studio Museum in Harlem, and Whitney Museum of American Art.
Transportation
The New York Academy of Art can be reached via the Broadway-Seventh Avenue Local subway (Number 1/9), which stops at the Franklin Street station, half a block from the Academy. Other subway lines have stops that leave passengers at Canal Street, a short distance from the building (Eighth Avenue A/C/E, Lexington Avenue Local Number 6, Broadway Local N/R and Q/W, and Local J/M/Z). New Jersey commuters can use the nearby World Trade Center station of the PATH train. Buses to all city locales can be boarded only minutes from the school door. |
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