Drawing Connections: Student Exhibition

This exhibition includes drawings made by elementary and high school students who participated in The Drawing Center's 2025-2026 Michael Iovenko School Programs **Drawing Connections** and **Drawing All-Stars with Teen Art Salon**. In these education programs, young people develop their own artistic practices through discussion and skill-development workshops that examine drawing's role in contemporary culture and creative thought, and use drawing as a tool for experimentation and innovation. For this year's **Drawing Connections** program, The Drawing Center partnered with New York City schools P.S. 42 The Benjamin Altman School, Lexington School for the Deaf, and Chelsea CTE High School. A cohort of ten **New York Community Trust Van Lier Fellows** in the **Drawing All-Stars** program are students from Bard High School Early College Queens, Brooklyn High School of the Arts, Chelsea CTE High School, Edward R. Murrow High School, Gramercy Arts High School, High School of Art and Design, John Bowne High School, and Pace High School._Drawing Connections_ works on view are inspired by The Drawing Center's recent exhibitions _[Voice of Space: UFOs and Paranormal Phenomena](https://drawingcenter.org/exhibitions/voice-of-space)_, _[Trisha Donnelly](https://drawingcenter.org/exhibitions/trisha-donnelly)_ and _[Ceija Stojka: Making Visible](https://drawingcenter.org/exhibitions/ceija-stojka)_. These programs are led by teaching artists Isabella Bustamante, Joyce Hom, Nic Annette Miller, Ekaterina Muromtseva, Avani Patel, and Aneesa Razak in partnership with The Drawing Center's Neal Flynn, Education Associate and Aimee Good, Director of Education and Community Programs.