Every November for the past 11+ years, The Bklyn Combine has hosted Smack Mellon’s Art Ready program for a site visit. The Art Ready program is free and open to students attending New York City public high schools. The program engages young people in a way no other arts education program does. It pairs students directly with working artists; the students learn firsthand over the course of a school year what it is to be an artist.
The Smack Mellon team typically brings about 20 or so high school students to our office every year in November for a site visit so we can tell them about our company and about Pixod. The students then make their top 5 selections for mentors they would like to work with.
The following January is when Art Ready does their mentor match day.