Celebrate New York Mural Chosen For Mayor’s Awards Festivities
Celebrate New York
A mural inspired by images that are iconic New York and creted by students in the main building has been receiving a lot of attention since it debuted at the Very Special Arts Festival in May. “Celebrate New York”, a mixed media collage creeted by Edrisce Dunn, Joseph Sola, Gwendolyn Brown, Edward Owens, Ciavion McCullom. Justin Messado, Adrian Umana and Zion Wade, was chosen by Mayor Bloomberg’s office to be the featured artwork as well as, the cover design for the invitation to the 2009 Mayor’s Awards in Honor of The Americans With Disabilities Act. The event, on August 12, 2009 will take place at Gracie Mansion and will be attended by many prominent figures from across the city, including Superintendent Bonnie Brown and District 75 Arts supervisor Kathy London, and of course, Mayor Bloomberg.
On August 10, 2009, students who had participated in the creation of the mural were invited to visit and tour City Hall. There they learned about the history of our City Hall, and visited rooms reserved for special guests, such as the Governor’s Room, “The Bull Pen” where the mayor and his staffers gather to conduct city business, and Council Chamber, where the legislative branch meets. Students received some momentos of their trip and will each receive a copy of the invitation featuring their wok.
My class made a mural about New York City icons with Ms. Seminara, Our artwork got picked to be on an invitation so we went on a trip. We went to see Mayor Bloomberg. We also went on a tour of City Hall with Ms. Joan Bright. She took us to see governor’s room. We saw president Washington’s desk there. The best thing I saw was the sculpture in bronze of George Washington. I liked it because he had his genral suit on.