14th St. School 
 
The 14th St. School is an Artist in Residence Program bringing practicing contemporary artists into schools around Los Angeles to faciliate studio visits, guide critiques, and lead workshops with young artists. We use a semiotic and phenomenological method aimed at enchancing our students’ capacities to look and speak about the work in front of them. Our work aims to highlight connections between image, ideology, history, and aesethetics in an effort to foster critical diaologues within the arts and provide students with a robust understanding of the context in which their work is being made.

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The 14th St. School is a non-profit project developed by artists and educators Calvin Miceli-Nelson and Erika Verik in collaboration with Fulcrum Arts.

We partner with public high school teachers, allowing educators to host artists in residence as mentors, guides, and co-teachers within their classrooms at no cost to public schools or their students.                

Our work is centered around weekly studio visits where our artists in residence work one-on-one with a single student each week to offer focused critique, guidance, and visual resources tailored specifically to their interests. Through the development of critical analytical skills, we teach students to speak clearly and confidently about their work and the work that informs it. 

Combined with an end of year lecture, workshop, and critique, all lead by the artist in residence, our program aims to provide students with an environment for self reflection and growth as well as a space to practice essential tools for sustaining a lifelong process of art making.