UPDATE
November 2005 Your contributions are needed now! Vol.1, Issue 6
Message from the Director:
Dear Friend,
The last tile was set on the 213-foot long Pieces for Peace Mosaic wall on November 3, 2005. This is our 260th project and our 40th collaboration with NYC Parks. Over 1000 local and international youth volunteers assisted our artists to create Pieces for Peace Mosaic and the local community is extremely proud. We brought the world to Harlem -Now we want YOU to come to Harlem and enjoy it!
Tsipi Ben-Haim,
Executive & Artistic Director

P4P Sponsors:
Allianz Foundation for North America; Disney Hand - Worldwide outreach for the Walt Disney Company; Department of Cultural Affairs, City of New York; Target; The Max & Victoria Dreyfus Foundation; The Clinton Family Foundation; Goldman Sachs Foundation; Cowles Charitable Trust; Leon Lowenstein Foundation, Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation, Puffin Foundation Ltd., Milton & Sally Avery Foundation; Community Youth Services; St. Paul Travelers Foundation; Colgate / Palmolive Inner City Educational Fund; Paul L. Newman; Xerox Corporation
(List as of November 2005)

CITYarts Board of Directors:
Jill Simeone,
Chairperson
Helene Saren Lawrence, Treasurer
Amnon Bar-Tur
Vera Sung
Lisa de Kooning
Irene Minkoff
Carol Feinberg
Gisela Keller
Irwin Shlachter
Tsipi Ben-Haim, Executive & Artistic Director

CITYarts Board of Advisors:
Sam August
Anna Carbonell
Deborah Dugan
Robert Fisher
Jane Goldman
Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn
Stephanie Holmquist
Katie Hollander
Charlotta Kotik
Miranda McClintic
Laura Miller
Dr. Lewis Peach
Lois Vaisman
Nina & Daniel Libeskind
Alex Gorlin
Bonnie Wyper

Pieces for Peace Advisory Committee:
Sue Bastian
Melanie A. Katzman
Susanne Lingemann
Mike Malone
Ben Maulbeck
Gabriel Mayer
Susan Mazonson
Michelle Perr
John Reddick
Irwin Schlachter
Harvey Seifter
Stephen Spahn
Lilly Wei

CITYarts Staff:
Tsipi Ben-Haim,
Executive & Artistic Director
Dina Solomon, Assistant to the Director
Shirin Fleischmann, Development Coordinator
Maria Hoffmann, P4P Project Coordinator

P4P Artist:
Peter Sis
P4P Artist Fabricators:
Dakota Warren
R.B. Morris III
Angie Loo Chia Yee

Photography:
Malcolm Pinckney, NYC Parks Photrographer;
Wendy Nadler and Yuval Lavi

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CITYarts
525 Broadway Ste. 700
New York, NY, 10012
(T) 212.966.0377
(F) 212.966.0551
info@cityarts.org
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CITYarts in collaboration with NYC Department of Parks and Recreation celebrates Pieces for Peace's last tile setting at Jacob H. Schiff Playground in Harlem

   
 

Guests, students and teachers of neighboring Jacob H. Schiff attended the celebration.

New York City Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe gave his blessings and delivered the mayor's greetings.


Speakers:

Adrian Benepe, Commissioner, NYC Department of Parks & Recreation

Andrew Schiff, great great grandson of Jacob H. Schiff

Robert Jackson, Council Memeber, District 7

Christopher Worthley, Executive Director, Allianz Foundation for North America

Antonia Singleton & Sofia Mohammed, youth volunteers

Peter Sis, Artist

Tsipi Ben-Haim, Executive and Artistic Director, CITYarts

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Speakers placed a piece of mosaic tile artwork created by youth from around the world on the wall

Location:

Jacob H. Schiff Playground, 138th Street and Amsterdam Ave, Manhattan

 

Magda Fishman and Dan Nadel accompanied the celebration with beautiful tunes.

Two student volunteers from Jacob H Schiff Elementary School held up the plaque during the ceremony

  

Council member Robert Jackson and a young assistant placed his tile on the wall

Youth volunteer Antonia Singleton with Artist Peter Sis, Manhattan Borough Commissioner Bill Castro and NYC Parks Assistant Commissioner for Community Relations Ed Lewis

 

Christopher Worthley of the Allianz Foundation for North America, Council Member Robert Jackson and Sofia Mohammed, one of the volunteers who worked on the wall this summer.

Comunity youth volunteers Antonia Singleton and Sofia Mohammed who helped create the mosaic this summer on stage with Commissioner Benepe.

From left: Council Member R. Jackson, Andrew Schiff with son, Tsipi Ben-Haim, Carol Feinberg & Commissioner Adrian Benepe

The CITYarts' team placed the final tile on Pieces for Peace Mosaic with Youth from around the World

 

From left: Commissioner Bill Castro, Chair of Community Board #9 Jordi Reyes-Montblanc, Antonia Singleton, Christopher Worthley of Allianz Foundation, Sofia Mohamed, Councilmember Robert Jackson, Andrew Schiff with son, Tsipi Ben-Haim, Carol Feinberg, Commissioner Adrian Benepe, Peter Sis, Gisela Keller, Assistant Commissioner Ed Lewis
Front row: Dina Solomon, Maria Hoffmann, Shirin Fleischmann, Jamie Meyer, Emily Reading, Katie Brown

"Mr. Curious" in his final state...

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