Very Special Arts Festival 2009
The 2009 Very Special Arts Festival was held at Columbia University’s Thorndike Hall May 27 -28, 2009. Three classes from our Main Building participated in creating murals to be displayed during the festival. Afterwards, the works of art will travel to Queens, where they will be on display at The Queens Museum of Art. The classes created beautiful murals, each with a different celebratory theme.
Ms. Vivaldi’s students created “Celebrate New York” depicting various New York icons under a sky lit with fireworks. The students learned about what makes something “iconic New York” and then researched and created their iindividual pieces which were assembled to create their mural.
Ms. Gunderson’s students made hand painted papers, and studied creatures found in a garden to create their “Celebrate the Garden” mural, bursting with life and bright color.
Lastls, Ms. Leston’s class created “Celebrate Friendship” a paper mosaic mural, in which they recycled many scraps of colored papers to bring their artwork to life.
A beautiful job by all, which received many compliments from attendees at the Festival!
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- Celebrate New York
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- Celebrate Friendship
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- Celebrate The Garden
Your murals for the Very Special Arts Festival are absolutely beautiful! I can see that you put a lot of hard work into them. You should all be very proud of your work.
(Hi, Joe Sola!!!!)
You all worked so hard, whether it was painting papers, gluing mosaic pieces or researching different iconic landmarks of our city, I am so proud of all of you!