New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture

The New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture is an art school located at 8 West 8th Street in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City, New York, US. It was formed in 1963 by a group of students and their teacher, Mercedes Matter, all of whom had become disenchanted with the fragmented nature of art instruction inside traditional art programs and universities. Today it occupies the building that previously housed the Whitney Museum of American Art.