The Armory Art Center Inc

Programs: Art school: over the course of the year, more than 1,400 courses are offered through six academic terms and educate more than 3,000 students. On average, 135 unique courses and workshops each term provide structured visual arts programs in ceramics, jewelry, metals, warm glass, drawing, painting, sculpture in many media, printmaking, photography, fibers, and related arts. Studio art classes are taught by accomplished and degreed artists and classes are offered for adults and children year-round with day, evening, and saturday schedules. The school serves an ethnically and culturally diverse community. The art school provides a scholarship program as detailed by schedule o under "fee waivers for studio art classes". Fee waivers for studio art classes: this program includes scholarships to both adults and children with economic need for regular art classes. Because the scholarships are awarded from documentation submitted without meeting the recipients, scholarships are effectively awarded without regard to race, gender, ethnic background, or religion. All scholarships are in the form of waiver of fees and no funds are distributed to recipients. At various times throughout the year the organization receives temporarily restricted contributions designed for these scholarships and upon award of a waiver of fees, contributed restricted funds in a segregated bank account for this purposes in the amount of the tuition are transferred to operations. During the fiscal year 13 adults and youths received tuition waivers valued at $1,627 for studio art classes. Artists-in-residence program: annually, this is a unique opportunity for emerging artists and mid-career artists to define and build a body of work, and to involve artists, students and the community in their evolving skills and artistic point of view. During 2016-2017, the armory had five artists-in-residence working in painting/drawing, ceramics, sculpture, and jewelry.

summer art camp: offered 8 weeks of summer art camp that was attended by over 450 children and concluded with 2 exhibitions of the work of the children. The summer art camp program serves children ranging in age from kindergarten through high-school. The program included scholarships to children with economic need. Because the scholarships are awarded from documentation submitted without meeting the recipients, scholarships are effectively awarded without regard to racial, ethnic, or demographic profile. All scholarships are in the form of waiver of fees and no funds are distributed to recipients. At various times throughout the year the organization receives temporarily restricted contributions designed for these scholarships and upon award of a waiver of fees, contributed restricted funds in a segregated bank account for this purpose in the amount of the tuition are transferred to operations. During the fiscal year 61 youths received summer art camp tuition waivers valued at $15,979.

master artist workshop: presented 5 workshops serving more than 52 participants. The workshops provide participants an opportunity to study with internationally recognized artists in the armory art center studios. The programs include studio workshops, lectures open to the general public and exhibition of master artists works.

exibitions: 2016-2017 featured the addition of international artists to the company of nationally prominent artists, and florida regional artists, exhibiting the armory's three galleries in more than 30 separate exhibitions, which also showed the work of armory students, faculty, and artists-in-residence.