Gallery 37 is a summer arts education and job training program in which city high school students are employed by the City of Chicago to create art for public spaces and fulfill private commissions. Architecture, metal jewelry making, bookbinding, papermaking, painting, creative writing and journalism, public art, furniture painting, textile art and urban landscaping are offered as part of a changing array of classes. Located in the heart of downtown Chicago, Gallery 37 transforms a vacant 3-acre lot each summer into a lively outdoor studio where the apprentices/artists work and train and where the public is welcome to visit. The benefits of the program to Chicago youth in the summer months are numerous: meaningful employment, development of job skills and arts education. In addition, 12 satellite programs in other city neighborhoods are employing young people in their own communities. The Gallery 37 model also has been replicated in communities across the country. Most recently, Gallery 37 was invited by the Board of Education to bring its job training program to Chicago's public schools. Beginning this spring, Gallery 37 will initiate an after-school program in 15 Chicago public schools, following the guidelines of its summer program