1. On-Site Building Lot (Right in Front) As seen directly in the photo below, Joy Street Studios features an open paved surface lot located right in front of the building entrance. Convenience: Steps away from the main entrance doors leading upstairs to Art School 99. Availability: Spaces in this lot are typically available for studio artists, visitors, and students arriving for classes. Be sure to park within designated lines to keep drive aisles clear for fellow creators. G

Alexandra Rozenman’s teaching career grows directly out of her own life as an artist: Moscow-born, classically trained, shaped by Soviet underground culture, and later educated in the United States. Before she became known in Boston as a painter, illustrator, and founder of Art School 99, she had already lived through several models of art education: children’s museum classes in Moscow, the influence of dissident artists, formal academic training, and the professional pressur

There is a moment, somewhere in the middle of every mixed media collage, when the artwork stops being a plan and starts being a conversation. A torn strip of magazine paper lands on top of a wash of blue ink. You answer with a quick sweep of acrylic. The paper answers back with its texture. The ink bleeds through. Suddenly, the piece is making decisions with you. That is the magic of mixed media collage — and it is also why so many artists who once thought of themselves as "j