Baker Artist Portfolios

NS Studios is comprised of a team of professional artists/designers and during the summer includes student artists and is located in Baltimore, MD. Our experiential learning environments transform mundane classrooms, cafeterias, entries, libraries, hallways, conference rooms, and counseling rooms into three dimensional, multi-sensory learning environments that focus on interactive and expeditionary learning. NS Studios is structured as a mentoring project for young artists. Young professional artists who are recent art school graduates get a real first job experience, and work as mentors to high school and college students employed during the summer. As their experience grows, they then go on to become managers of a crew of younger artists.

We have been working for over fifteen years successfully completing award?winning art installations that transform educational settings into unique and imaginative spaces that support the programs and curriculums of schools. The schools we work in are often for at ?risk youth, and students who are physically challenged, or have multi ? spectrum disorders.

NS Studios works in charter schools and other public schools leading workshops where students participate in creating murals and three-dimensional environments that are funded through grants that are often matched by the schools. As collaborators we start with nothing, build ideas, encourage kids to imagine themselves differently and guide them through a creative process that allows them to make a difference in their school. Students working to create these environments are motivated toward self-discipline, and are empowered to make a commitment to themselves and their community.