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Artisans of The Alpha Workshops: Creating Beauty. Changing Lives.

Creating Beauty. Changing Lives

Artisans of The Alpha Workshops

The lecture starts at 6:30 P.M. – RECEPTION TO FOLLOW

Dedicated to creating beauty and changing lives, Alpha Workshops is the nation’s only nonprofit organization providing decorative arts education and employment to at-risk youths and adults with disabilities or other vulnerabilities. For reservations, please click here.

During the presentation, some of Alpha Workshop Studio staff artisans and students will discuss the full spectrum of decorative arts services, Alpha offers to interior designers and architects, including traditional custom decorative paint and plaster finishes, gilding, and on-site art installations. Alpha’s staff artisans also produce unique hand-painted wallpapers, custom hand-finished case-goods, hand-finished lamps, and other fine interior products made to specification and available through select showrooms.

Some of the stunning special projects completed by Alpha include: the recreation of a historically accurate faux marble floor in the Gracie Mansion’s grand entryway and anintensive restoration process for the ballroom of the Prince George Hotel that involved mold making, casting, and decorative painting.

Alpha’s residential portfolio features collaborations with many top-tier designers and their work has been covered in numerous publications including: Architectural Digest, Domino, ELLE DECOR, House & Garden, House Beautiful, InStyle Home, Interior Design, The New York Times, andVogue Living.

The Alpha Workshops were founded in 1995 in the Chelsea area of Manhattan and modeled on the famed Omega Workshops, the Wiener Werkstätte, the Bauhaus, and the American Arts & Crafts movement. The multi-faceted organization encompasses The Alpha Workshops Studio School (AWSS), a vocational school licensed by the New York State Department of Education, and The Alpha Workshops Studios, an award-winning professional design and decorative arts atelier staffed exclusively by AWSS graduates.

In accordance with its original mission “to provide a new model of economic development for people living with HIV+/AIDS or other disabilities,” The Alpha Workshops is part of a growing movement to establish unique ways of working, teaching, and doing business with benefits for all: a do-no-harm approach to education and enterprise.

20 WEST 44th Street (BETWEEN 5TH AND 6th AVENUES), New York City.

Advance registration is recommended. Admission: $15 General admission; $10 General Society members & Senior Citizens; $5 Students.

This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural A­ffairs, in partnership with the City Council.











When: Tue., May. 8, 2018 at 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Where: The General Society Library
20 W. 44th St.
212-840-1840
Price: $5-$15
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Creating Beauty. Changing Lives

Artisans of The Alpha Workshops

The lecture starts at 6:30 P.M. – RECEPTION TO FOLLOW

Dedicated to creating beauty and changing lives, Alpha Workshops is the nation’s only nonprofit organization providing decorative arts education and employment to at-risk youths and adults with disabilities or other vulnerabilities. For reservations, please click here.

During the presentation, some of Alpha Workshop Studio staff artisans and students will discuss the full spectrum of decorative arts services, Alpha offers to interior designers and architects, including traditional custom decorative paint and plaster finishes, gilding, and on-site art installations. Alpha’s staff artisans also produce unique hand-painted wallpapers, custom hand-finished case-goods, hand-finished lamps, and other fine interior products made to specification and available through select showrooms.

Some of the stunning special projects completed by Alpha include: the recreation of a historically accurate faux marble floor in the Gracie Mansion’s grand entryway and anintensive restoration process for the ballroom of the Prince George Hotel that involved mold making, casting, and decorative painting.

Alpha’s residential portfolio features collaborations with many top-tier designers and their work has been covered in numerous publications including: Architectural Digest, Domino, ELLE DECOR, House & Garden, House Beautiful, InStyle Home, Interior Design, The New York Times, andVogue Living.

The Alpha Workshops were founded in 1995 in the Chelsea area of Manhattan and modeled on the famed Omega Workshops, the Wiener Werkstätte, the Bauhaus, and the American Arts & Crafts movement. The multi-faceted organization encompasses The Alpha Workshops Studio School (AWSS), a vocational school licensed by the New York State Department of Education, and The Alpha Workshops Studios, an award-winning professional design and decorative arts atelier staffed exclusively by AWSS graduates.

In accordance with its original mission “to provide a new model of economic development for people living with HIV+/AIDS or other disabilities,” The Alpha Workshops is part of a growing movement to establish unique ways of working, teaching, and doing business with benefits for all: a do-no-harm approach to education and enterprise.

20 WEST 44th Street (BETWEEN 5TH AND 6th AVENUES), New York City.

Advance registration is recommended. Admission: $15 General admission; $10 General Society members & Senior Citizens; $5 Students.

This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural A­ffairs, in partnership with the City Council.

Buy tickets/get more info now