The Guggenheim Museum’s annual show of student artwork opened last night with a private viewing for funders and participating classroom teachers and teaching artists. The show will be open to the public from May 10-June 11th. The following students are representing PS 8 in the exhibition (click photos for larger images):
3rd Grade Exhibit: Mia Dicanio (student docent, pictured left), Jesse Biviano, Ethen Flowers, Max Smith, Andrew Erdei, Hannah Gedanke, Shianne Scott, Devin Reiman, Mali Jackson, Mackenzie Lewis, Murphy Botko and Maciej Adamczyk.
4th Grade Exhibit: Lyn Garcia (student docent, pictured left) all fourth graders were represented by photographs of their installation pieces.
Pop-up Exhibit: In addition, there was a “pop-up” exhibition in the museum’s rotunda. These pieces were on view for the private opening only. PS 8 was represented by: Ace Fernandez (student docent, pictured left), Egypt Cousar, Gabriel Sambar-Lande, Michael Horowitz, Sophie Mode, and Pien Lalleman.
In addition to these special exhibits pictured above, all students participating in the Guggenheim art program are represented by one piece of artwork in a looping slideshow in the center of the overall student exhibition.
And in addition to our student docents, we also had several members of our PS 8 community in attendance on opening night (click photos below for larger images), including Mr. Phillips, as well as Ms. Jenny, Ms. Anne, Ms. Coates, Mr. Jansen, Ms. Hayes and this year’s artists’ assistants Clara Wanatirta (4th grade) and Stacy Feinstein and Pam Shipley (3rd grade). It was wonderful to see our student docents explaining their art and their process to the people who make the Learning Through Art program possible and doing such a great job of representing our school.
To allow all of our participating students to see their artwork on display, we’ll be conducting field trips over the next few weeks. All third grade classes will visit on Friday, May 11th. All 4th grade classes will visit on Friday, May 18th. Family Day is on June 9th from 1-4. On this day there will be activities for the kids and all PS 8 families are invited for free, even those not in 3rd and 4th grade, so bring your friends! Check out this flyer for more information.
The NY1 news channel also recently featured our students art at the Guggenheim in a short parenting spot. A shot of class 4-310′s flying dragon as well as work by Mia Dicanio (3-305) and Michael Horowitz (3-307) can be seen in the second segment of this video from NY1.
