Documenting Deco is an youth outreach program that provides New York City students and children and teens in community programs with the tools to recognize Art Deco architecture and design and understand the importance of preservation. By introducing young people to the Deco splendors in their own neighborhoods, this program fosters pride in local communities.

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Through these lessons and walking tours, Art Deco design and architecture becomes the inspiration for young peoples’ own art-making processes, which range from drawings, murals, mosaics, and ceramics to computer-based design, photography, and video.

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Each lesson features activities to cultivate knowledge and understanding in various important aspects of design, architecture and photography. It offers educators and group leaders an opportunity to connect the arts, architecture, and design with the history of the city.

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Through this program, young peoples are given the opportunity to make a personal connection with the visual world around them and see the role they can play in their ever-changing city.

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Documenting Deco offers experiences in living history and explores how each of us can honor the past while imagining the future, fostering New York’s next generation of architects, designers, photographers, preservationists, and design enthusiasts.

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The slideshow to the right shows young people participating in the Documenting Deco program over the past few years.

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