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LEAP, A View from the Lunch Table: Students Bringing Issues to the Table

June 3, 2016 to August 25, 2016
Various Locations
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Please note: This is a past exhibit that is no longer installed in the park.

Description:

Students from ten New York City public middle schools, with two schools representing each borough, have transformed school lunchroom tables into personalized canvases and created colorful works of public art that touch upon critical social issues in their community and across the globe. The tables, which have been installed in ten community parks across the five boroughs, are a way of giving young teens the chance to voice their opinions and reach out to the public in hopes of inspiring social change through their art. This exhibition was created by LEAPâΑΑS Public Art Program in cooperation with NYC Parks and marks the largest student exhibition in the history of NYC Parks and the first to span five boroughs. The program included visits with distinguished artists Sebastian Blanck, Christo, Daze, Bradley Hart, Mel Kendrick, Stephen Powers, Orlando Richards, Lorna Simpson, Federico Solmi, and Chat Travieso. Since 1977, LeAp (Learning through an Expanded Art Program) has provided artsâΑΑbased education to over two million students K-12 throughout New York City.

Artworks can be found through September in Seward Park and Riverside Park in Manhattan, Tremont Park and Crotona Park in the Bronx, Washington Park and Fermi Playground in Brooklyn, Evergreen Park and Forest Park (Dry Harbor Playground) in Queens, and Clove Lakes Park and Snug Harbor Cultural Center in Staten Island.

This exhibition is presented by LEAP.