Visual Artist - Muralist - Teacher

Community Partners: PS 676, Groundswell, National Audubon Society

About: Created with middle school students for their school yard's new sustainability container project, the design focuses on our environment and three climate-threatened birds that migrate through Red Hook (Blackburnian Warbler, Yellow Warbler, Black-throated Blue Warbler).

Community Partners: Groundswell, PS 197

About: 16-session after-school program with approximately fifteen 4th and 5th grade   students at Kings Highway Academy PS 197 in Brooklyn.  

Community Partners: Groundswell, WBCHS

About: 16-session  high school mural with approximately a dozen high school students at  WBCHS. Design is about rebirth, cycles, and circles. Day and sun, night  and moon. Fire, earth, and water, peppered with symbols of rebirth  including a phoenix, Ouroboros, moon cycle, and lotus flower. 

Community Partners: Groundswell, PS 69k

About: In the center is planet earth, held gently by two hands, filled with wildlife and plants (including laurel leaves, a symbol of victory, prosperity, success, and protection). To the left is a blossoming cherry tree (symbol of beauty, love, renewal) with a buzzing bee. To the right is a fruit-filled orange tree (symbol of wealth and happiness) with a perched owl. On both sides bottom to top are clouds, swirling  sky, and outer space with  moon, sun, planets, rockets, and astronauts. On the left is a silhouette of a child raising a peace sign, onthe far right is a silhouette of a graduate raising their diploma. 

Community Partners: Groundswell, UASEM

About: Created with high school students, mural is about inclusion, student-teacher relationships, and the future outside of high school. Includes an open book with pages scattered with quotes of advice from the youth written during our research/design sessions. Color spectrum represents support and inclusion for  all gender expressions. School is located at the heels of the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges. Flowers, sky, clouds, sun, rain, and birds are reminders of beauty outside that awaits.

Community Partners: Groundswell, PS 69k

About: Created with 4th and 5th grade students over 16 sessions. The school emphasizes the “Seven Habits of Highly Effective People” as part of their daily school culture. It’s also their mission to promote multidisciplinary learning. With a predominately Chinese population, we included a central Gingko tree, an important cultural symbol  that represents resilience and hope (there is also a Gingko in the school yard). We also wanted to include “day and night” as a nod to the learning and  growth that happens both inside and outside of school.

Community Partners: Groundswell, PS 516

About: Created with fifth graders over 16 sessions, students and staff wanted the mural to be a "welcome" to all students and directly reflect the school's five guiding principles: Creativity,  integrity, resilience, inclusion, and curiosity. They also wanted to  include images that reflect planet earth and their environmental science  club.

Community Partners: Groundswell, PS 58x

About: School wanted a mural that was colorful, welcoming, and reflective of the neighborhood of Tremont and Bronx landmarks (and a lion since it's their school mascot). During the design phase youth made beautiful collages and all of them included lions. We spent a lot of time discussing colors and shapes, especially geometric shapes. Mural includes Yankee Stadium, Bronx Zoom, Throggs Neck and Whitestone bridges, the D train, and a male and female lion facing each other. 

Community Partners: Thrive Collective, BSSWA

About: Theme was "immigration" and its importance in what makes our city and  our country so great. Students created drawings that reflected these  themes which were assembled into the design, including Statue of  Liberty, immigrants at Ellis Island, life cycle of dandelions, local  bridges, and puzzle pieces.