Youth Learning Programs at Flower City Arts Center
Flower City Arts Center, 713 Monroe Ave, Rochester, NY 14607
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Youth Learning Programs at Flower City Arts Center include hands-on activities in printmaking and book arts using presses, type, and traditional printing methods, along with bookbinding, papermaking, and marbling. Participants can also do painting, drawing, mixed media art, encaustics, ceramics using hand building, wheels, and kilns, and photography in spaces that offer a darkroom, a professional lighting studio, and a cyanotype “silver den.” Digital media options include computer design, photography, videography, editing, digital and audio production, animation, music production, and risograph printing, and there are specific programs such as Studio 678 Photo & Writing Club for city middle school students and Expanding The Field (ETF) for urban high school students.
• Ages: 11–18 years old
• Schedule: Office hours for program areas generally run on weekdays and Saturdays, with some evening hours
• Price: Ceramics studio facilities offer 24/7 monthly access subscriptions for Studio Artists to Individual level (and above) members for $75 per month plus an initial $50 security deposit
Youth Learning Programs at Flower City Arts Center take place within a larger organization that offers studio space rental, three galleries with rotating public exhibits, workshops, lectures, classes, entrepreneurial projects, and memberships, and that hosts diverse Artists-in-Residence all year. The Center runs Studio 678 Photo & Writing Club, noted as the oldest youth arts program in the Rochester area, and Expanding The Field (ETF), a career and college arts program for urban high school students, and it also runs specialized classes and inclusive programs for people with varying physical and mental abilities and offers creative healing and therapeutic arts. Youth programs are part of a community-focused nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide education, support, and access for people to create and enjoy art, and that states “Art for All People!” and “We are committed to Art for All People,” with an emphasis on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and on encouraging all people to be respected, valued, included, and free to be their authentic selves.
The organization celebrated 50 years in 2020, was established in 1970, and was incorporated in 1974 as a 501(c)3 not-for-profit educational institution. Leadership connected to these programs includes a Board of Directors with roles such as President, Vice President, and Directors, and staff roles that include a Photography & Digital Arts Facility Manager & Teaching Artist, Finance Director, Teaching Artist & Studio Tech, Photography & Digital Arts Program Coordinator, Ceramics Studio Manager, Development Director, and Marketing and Communications Coordinator. Staff credentials include degrees such as a Bachelor of Fine Arts and Master of Fine Arts, a BS in Accounting with experience in healthcare and non-profit auditing, a BA in Classics and an Ed.M., an MFA in ceramics and a BA in Philosophy, and a BA in Psychology.
Flower City Arts Center is an Institutional Member of the National Guild for Community Arts Education, is part of the Safe Space Alliance in recognition of its 2SLGBTQIA+ community members and their allies, and receives funding support from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. The Center serves young children up to the oldest community members throughout Rochester and the wider region, including low-income young people of color in programs such as Studio 678 and Expanding The Field (ETF), and it hosts international shows such as the four-day Flower City Pottery Invitational, which invites potters and curators from around the country and the world.
Last updated February 7, 2026.
• Ages: 11–18 years old
• Schedule: Office hours for program areas generally run on weekdays and Saturdays, with some evening hours
• Price: Ceramics studio facilities offer 24/7 monthly access subscriptions for Studio Artists to Individual level (and above) members for $75 per month plus an initial $50 security deposit
Youth Learning Programs at Flower City Arts Center take place within a larger organization that offers studio space rental, three galleries with rotating public exhibits, workshops, lectures, classes, entrepreneurial projects, and memberships, and that hosts diverse Artists-in-Residence all year. The Center runs Studio 678 Photo & Writing Club, noted as the oldest youth arts program in the Rochester area, and Expanding The Field (ETF), a career and college arts program for urban high school students, and it also runs specialized classes and inclusive programs for people with varying physical and mental abilities and offers creative healing and therapeutic arts. Youth programs are part of a community-focused nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide education, support, and access for people to create and enjoy art, and that states “Art for All People!” and “We are committed to Art for All People,” with an emphasis on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and on encouraging all people to be respected, valued, included, and free to be their authentic selves.
The organization celebrated 50 years in 2020, was established in 1970, and was incorporated in 1974 as a 501(c)3 not-for-profit educational institution. Leadership connected to these programs includes a Board of Directors with roles such as President, Vice President, and Directors, and staff roles that include a Photography & Digital Arts Facility Manager & Teaching Artist, Finance Director, Teaching Artist & Studio Tech, Photography & Digital Arts Program Coordinator, Ceramics Studio Manager, Development Director, and Marketing and Communications Coordinator. Staff credentials include degrees such as a Bachelor of Fine Arts and Master of Fine Arts, a BS in Accounting with experience in healthcare and non-profit auditing, a BA in Classics and an Ed.M., an MFA in ceramics and a BA in Philosophy, and a BA in Psychology.
Flower City Arts Center is an Institutional Member of the National Guild for Community Arts Education, is part of the Safe Space Alliance in recognition of its 2SLGBTQIA+ community members and their allies, and receives funding support from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. The Center serves young children up to the oldest community members throughout Rochester and the wider region, including low-income young people of color in programs such as Studio 678 and Expanding The Field (ETF), and it hosts international shows such as the four-day Flower City Pottery Invitational, which invites potters and curators from around the country and the world.
Last updated February 7, 2026.
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