Dear Friends,
I'm so happy to let you know about a new partnership that we just began with Stonehenge Management. We were invited to create a public art project at Stonehenge Village in collaboration with their young tenants, because the management believes that "every child is unique and we want them to feel that our home is their home."
In five extensive workshops, the young neighbors painted their favorite animals, flowers, and trees, all as part of our project to celebrate nature and raise awareness of global warming. Our lead artists, Duda Penteado and Jordan Taler, edited their work and together with the community they recently started painting the 18 large planters in the backyard of 120 West 97th Street. Every planter celebrates a different animal's life and environment - giraffes, turtles, birds, elephants, and beautiful flowers like water lilies.
One of the stars of the HBO series The Sopranos, Federico Castelluccio, whose first love is painting, will join the community in painting his favorite animal - a butterfly - on one of the planters.
You are invited to join us to watch, paint, or come up with your own ideas to celebrate nature and raise together the good spirit for "Trees for Peace", which will be planted in the concrete painted planters after the completion of the creative process.
Please make sure you email or call us if you would like to visit the project site - or to participate! We are working on it Monday through Friday, 11 am to 5 pm.
I am looking forward to enjoying the power of art and nature with you!
All my best,
Tsipi Ben-Haim
Executive & Artistic Director
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Board of Directors
Carrie H. Cohen, Chairperson
Kate Gehring, Secretary
Bernadette Longford,
Treasurer
Helene Saren
Lawrence
Amnon Bar-Tur
Vera Sung
Irene Minkoff
Helene Feldman
Jean Kim
Tsipi Ben-Haim,
Executive & Artistic Director
Board of Advisors
Sam August
Anna Carbonell
Deborah Dugan
Robert Fisher
Alex Gorlin
Katie Hollander
Stephanie Holmquist
Gisela Keller
Charlotta
Kotik
Nina & Daniel
Libeskind
Miranda McClintic
Laura
Miller
Dr. Lewis Peach
Jeanne
Greenberg Rohatyn
Lois
Vaisman
Sandy Gonzalez Wilson
Irwin Shlachter
Staff
Tsipi Ben-Haim,
Executive and Artistic Director
Kim Llerena,
Assistant to the Director
Marc Maffei,
Project Coordinator
Jordan Taler,
Creative Coordinator
Bernadette Ott,
Development Consultant
Interns
Jhanelle Latore
Julia Caston
Tori Davis
Kelly Christian
Katherine Bedkowski
Stefanie Koenig
David Schroeter
Alexandra Israel
Hanna Levin
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CITYarts
- Produces and creates public art in the form of murals, mosaics, and sculptures
- Gives professional artists the chance to collaborate with youth on public art projects
- Provides internships for young artists-to-be
- Acts as a resource for making murals
- Curates traveling exhibitions to spread cultural understanding between youth from around the world
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Community youth and Hanna Levin, CITYarts Intern, start to paint the Living Planters pots
Tori Davis, CITYarts Intern from Texas, helps community youth paint the dog planter
 Community youth at work with Hanna Levin, CITYarts intern
Community youth paint bubbles!
Community youth seriously at work
Tori Davis and Kelly Christian, CITYarts Interns, community youth, and Lina Schulz, German student, paint the dog planter
 Lina Schulz, German student, and Tsipi Ben-Haim, CITYarts Executive & Artistic and Director
 Liri and Keren, Israeli students, paint a desert scene
 Julia Caston, CITYarts Intern, transfers youth drawings onto the planter
 David Schroeter, CITYarts Intern, sketches kids drawings onto the planter
 Duda Penteado, Artist, sketches youth drawings onto the planter
The Owl Planter awaits paint. Hooo...!
Workshops with youth from the Stonehenge community
Workshops with Stonehenge youth
Sketches from Stonehenge youth
Duda Penteado, Artist, helps youth develop their drawings of animals
Community youth meet Tsipi Ben-Haim
Planters before they were touched by us
Daniele Pollitz admires the bird planter
Youth sketches are displayed
Collaborators Hezi Mizrahi, Federico Castelluccio, Duda Penteado, Tsipi Ben-Haim, and Samantha Jameson
Ari Goldstein, Federico Castelluccio, and Tsipi Ben-Haim discuss what should grow in the planter
Neighbors at work |
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Thinking globally and acting locally,
CITYarts' projects build bridges of cultural understanding and give
youth the opportunity to take an active role in shaping their future.
The Young Minds Build Bridges program connects our youth in New York to the international
community, spreading their voices in a quest for peace and raising awareness of global warming.
Our projects give youth a stage to ask, "What
can I do to reduce the speed of global warming?" Our teens are taking
the future into their own hands, getting actively involved in their
communities, and assuming responsibility through the creation of murals
and mosaics with CITYarts.
Since 1968, CITYarts has created 272 projects that have
transformed communities and impacted over 100,000 kids, collaborated
with more than 500 artists, and partnered with over 300,000 volunteers
in the process.
Thank you in advance for your generous support and for
joining CITYarts in celebrating 40 years of "Making a Difference
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