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| BACK PACK ART | THE BANNER PROJECT | LEAP PROGRAM ARTIST IN RESIDENCE | PUBLIC TILE PROJECT | GUIDED TOURS |
THE BANNER PROJECT
"A city with public art is a city that thinks, feels and grows."
The Banner Project brings together eight professional artists to mentor over 300 young artists to create a large-scale community engaged art installation inspired by the show "Circa 1986", at the Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art.
These colorful banners will be installed on the side of the James Street parking garage in downtown Peekskill for a year, after which they will return to their home base in the communities that created them.
Participants of The Banner Project range from college art students, to youth from the Salvation Army, to regional Middle and High School students and include young artists from Peekskill, Greenburgh, North Castle, Yonkers, Rye, and the Croton-Cortlandt area.
This Banner Project is led by local artist Kelli Bickman, who is the founder of the Youth Mural Arts Program, a grassroots community engaged arts campaign developed based on the need for more publicly accessible art in Peekskill. ArtsWestchester awarded the Youth Mural Arts program an ArtsAlive grant to kick off the 'Banner Project' beginning in Spring 2011.
"Community art stimulates the economy, promotes conversation, uplifts spirits and will help our city and region grow in a positive way," says Bickman. "The artists and the participating youth develop a sense of civic pride by creating something beautiful to share in the public domain. Thousands of people will be positively affected by this project."
http://kellibickman.net/youth-mural-arts/
About the artists:
Kelli Bickman is a multimedia artist; she received her art education in Wisconsin and London. For The Banner Project Kelli is working with artists from the Peekskill Youth Bureau, she has previously worked with the Youth Bureau to create the ‘Painters for Peace’ mural in 2010.
Andrew Kaminsky is currently a student at SUNY New Paltz, he is a painter and art educator. For The Banner Project Andrew worked with young artists at the Peekskill Salvation Army.
Jessica Fuentes is an artist and educator; she holds degrees from College of New Rochelle and Manhattanville College. Jessica teaches art at Greenburgh-North Castle UFSD High School and was a 2011 ArtsWestchester, Sophia Abeles Award recipient. In 2009, she received the Robert Rauchenberg Foundation Power of Art Award. For The Banner Project Jessica worked with her HS students, focusing on the artist Keith Haring as an inspiration (detail of banner pictured above on right).Jo-Ann Brody is an artist and educator. Jo-Ann was named “Teacher of the Year” by Young Audiences, NY in 2010. She is a resident teaching artist in schools throughout NYC and Westchester County. During the summers, Jo-Ann runs Peekskill Creative Art Camp where she worked on The Banner Project, studying Circa 1986 artist Jonathan Borofsky with her students. Jo-Ann is also Director of Education at HVCCA.
Jeannie Egel is a local muralist, for The Banner Project she worked to create a banner with students from the Croton Cortlandt Center for the Arts.
Lana Yu is an artist, designer and creative director. She has lived in Los Angeles and currently resides in Peekskill. Lana’s work was recently shown in a solo exhibition at H-Art Gallery in Peekskill. For The Banner Project Lana worked with young local artists from the Peekskill area (pictured on right).
Tova Snyder is a professional painter and public artist on the ArtsWestchester Artist Roster. She holds degrees from Yale University and the Tyler School of Art. In 2005 she received a Westchester Arts Council Arts Award. She is working on The Banner Project with a group of students at The Rye Arts Center.
Heather Brown is an artist and educator. She teaches AP Art, Art (Fine and Performing), Drawing and Painting, Photography, Studio in Art at Peekskill High School and is working on The Banner Project with her students.