Brooklyn Museum Art School (BMAS), 1974-1985, 2005

The Brooklyn Museum Art School (BMAS), a non-degree-granting professional school, opened at the Brooklyn Museum in the summer of 1941. The Brooklyn Museum Art School provided instruction for amateur and professional artists until January 1985 when it was transferred to the Pratt Institute’s Continuing Education Division. While it operated as a semi-autonomous institution with its own director and funding streams, in the 1970s the BMAS was reorganized into the Community Services Department. This subseries documents the Museum's attempts to restructure the BMAS into a profitable division and address internal issues.