John Harrison and I teach together at Inwood Academy for Leadership HS. I made a Martin acoustic guitar from scratch with him and now I’m working on making a dining room table. MORE

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The Art Education program at City College of New York prepares students to be reflective artist-educators who can teach in multiple settings, including schools, community centers, museums, and alternative learning sites. Students gain a critical understanding of the social significance of art education as they develop the skills to actively contribute to the field through their creative and academic work. MORE INFO

Morningside Heights/West Harlem
Sanitation Coalition
100 La Salle Street, #19F
New York, N.Y. 10027
(212) 666-6157

The Coalition comprises a number of community associations in Community Board #9.
The Coalition’s primary goals are 1) to secure for the district its fair share of city services from the Department of Sanitation (DOS) and the Department of Parks (DOP) relative to its population and needs; and 2) to coordinate efforts within the District to make the best use of available public and private resources for keeping the community clean. MORE INFO

New York Collective of Radical Educators (NYCoRE) is a group of current and former public school educators and their allies committed to fighting for social justice in our school system and society at large, by organizing and mobilizing teachers, developing curriculum, and working with community, parent, and student organizations. We are educators who believe that education is an integral part of social change and that we must work both inside and outside the classroom because the struggle for justice does not end when the school bell rings. MORE INFO

Tomo Mori is a native of Japan. She currently lives and works in West Harlem as her creative base. She studied fundamental painting and drawing at Tokyo Metropolitan High School for Art and graduated from Atlanta Collage of Art with BFA. Her work has been exhibited in New York, Atlanta and Tokyo, including Rogue Space Chelsea, Rush Arts Gallery, chashama, Dwyer Center, Andrew Freedman Home, Renaissance Fine Art, Knox Gallery, Bill Lowe Gallery and Tokyo Metropolitan Museum. She received the congressional record for her winning painting for Bid on Culture for 2011 and 2012. In 2011, she was selected as a semi finalist for MTA Art in Transit. Tomo recently received the Hiroshi Senju award at Japan Day Central Park event. MORE

Circa ’95
Hailing from New York City, Circa ’95 is an independent Hip-Hop music and media group comprised of Patty Dukes and Reph Star. Puerto Rican & Dominican by way of The Bronx and Washington Heights, they rhyme seamlessly through English and Spanish. MORE

Wonder Lee is a self taught assemblage artist who resides in The Bronx, New York. An extraordinary re-imagining and unique vision allows Wonder Lee to create an originally designed line of fashionable bow ties handcrafted with various materials such as plastic bricks, board games, and comics. Wonder Lee is committed to bringing you wearable art, an eco-friendly stylish product that you will look and feel good in.? Where earth day is every day? MORE

 

Chris Salley Rocks!! MORE