Marquis Studios has provided a variety of arts-in-education services to New York City public schools for the last 35 years. We seek to foster a greater partnership between artists and classroom teachers by providing arts programs as a supplement to traditional classroom teaching techniques.

Over three decades, Marquis Studios has worked with over 285,000 students, 26,000 teachers and 10,500 parents at schools and cultural institutions throughout New York City.

Marquis Studios serves a diverse population. 75% of students in Marquis programs live at or below the poverty level as measured by their eligibility for federal free lunch and breakfast programs.  Over 35% of our programs serve students with disabilities, with over 25% of all programming serving children with multiple or severe disabilities.

• We provide a core curriculum program consisting of a ten-week arts residency, taught by our staff of fully trained artists.

• Marquis offers a full spectrum of residencies that encourage student exploration of the visual arts, theater, music, dance, architecture, circus arts and puppetry.

• Our teaching artists custom-design programs to meet the educational goals set by the school through collaboration between the Marquis team and each school’s classroom teachers. All our programs address New York State Learning Standards, both in the arts and in academic areas.

• Each year, we lead a multitude of workshops in Professional Development for Classroom Teachers to provide them with techniques and concepts they can bring back to their own classrooms to integrate the arts into the academic curriculum.

• We conduct as many as 45 Parent/Child workshops per school year. In these workshops, we show parents the importance of the arts to their child’s educational experience and provide parents with a new set of meaningful activities they can use at home with their children.