Summertime Residency
Summertime is a nonprofit art studio and gallery in NYC that champions an art world where artists with and without intellectual disabilities create and display work alongside one another. 

Introducing our FIRST ever residency duo — 
​Shmuel Taurog and Margot Werner!

​Both Brooklyn born and raised, Shmuel and Margot are excited to shake things up at Summertime with a project designed to access feelings of joy and playfulness that often feel out of reach in adulthood.

Shmuel is a self described “creative adventurer” hailing from Crown Heights, Brooklyn. His current work is inspired by memories and his long borough to borough walks. He loves submerging into the cool waters of swimming pools, chalk dancing and making edible works of art. Shmuel is an artist in Summertime’s Studio Hours, a teacher, and a fierce advocate for thinking outside the box.
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Margot likes to run and take time to smell the flowers, finding inspiration in the everyday life of New York City. She is a painter, trained art therapist and teacher at Pratt Institute. Margot’s paintings toggle between reality and fantasy, observing the passing of time. She often references her dreams, miniature characters float in sinks.

Since the spring, the two have met — at a fountain near Grand Army Plaza, the shore at Manhattan Beach, and at the rosebushes of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. They have also conducted an Artist Open Call, inviting neurodiverse artists to lead drawing sessions designed around a particular joyous memory in the spot where it occurred. The drawing sessions will blur past and present and incorporate all five senses, providing the inspiration for their final collaborative work.