[2] Artspace hosted an annual Summer Apprenticeship Program (SAP) for high school students to work with a professional artist.
In 2001, the program's founding year, Artspace partnered with artist Sol LeWitt to create a series of wall drawings.
[10] In 1999, Marianne Bernstein of Artspace's Visual Arts Committee, asked Mayor John DeStefano for permission and organized the inaugural project in the Lot, "New Haven Labyrinth."
[11][12] In 2001, a community charrette focused on the Lot was organized by Artspace, the International Festival of Arts and Ideas and Project for Public Spaces.
There, artists and neighborhood residents developed ideas for renovating the site, including plantings, pathways, benches, and a new bus shelter.