The dancers will stay at Mr. Dorfman's house and rehearse in a light-filled studio at the college.

There are sleek meeting rooms and five large, light-filled studios, one of them equipped as an informal studio theater.

Many artists are already at work in light-filled studios with sweeping vistas of White Plains.

Each artist has a generous light-filled studio and a cozy mezzanine office tailored to the demands of his or her respective media and creative personality.

He said he envied artists with big, light-filled studios, so began making models as a kind of comment on his own lack of space.

"I tried to imagine what I'd want as a dancer," he said, pointing out the light-filled studios, the cedar-lined costume-storage area, the pleasant student rooms and the laundry facilities.

The walls of the 5,000-square-foot light-filled studio where he works on the East Side of Manhattan are covered with dozens of paintings.

Junior Kindergarten-Grade 4 students receive extensive art and music instruction by full-time instructors in large, light-filled studios.

This middle school, which specializes in art education, has a light-filled fifth-floor studio with spectacular views.

One side of the elevator opens onto his office, with its two assistants, the other into her light-filled studio.