WWW.QNS.COM RIDGEWOOD TIMES FEBRUARY 16, 2017 19 BUZZ Ridgewood kids’ artwork part of city-wide school art exhibit Students from I.S. 77 in Ridgewood will have their artwork on display during the Learning through an Expanded Arts Program’s 15th Annual Student Art Exhibition later this week. BY ANTHONY GIUDICE AGIUDICE@RIDGEWOODTIMES.COM @A_GIUDICEREPORT Student artists from I.S. 77 in Ridgewood will have their work displayed during the Learning through an Expanded Arts Program’s (LEAP) 15th Annual Student Art Exhibition on Feb. 17. The exhibition will feature works by students in kindergarten through eighth grade from schools in Queens, Brooklyn, The Bronx and Manhattan who participated in LEAP’s Afterschool Program, LEAP’s Public Art Program and LEAP’s Active Learning Leads to Literacy Program. “We are so proud of our students as they have embraced academic material through engaging in arts-based strategies, and have produced such beautiful and powerful works of art,” said Rich Souto, LEAP executive director. The exhibition will kick off with an opening reception on Friday, Feb. 17, from 10 a.m. to noon at the Citigroup Building Atrium, located at One Court Square in Long Island City. The full exhibition runs through March and is open to the public. Participating students explored a wide range of artistic styles and techniques to make their art for this show, all while learning core academic subjects. Students created African-inspired artworks, issue-based murals and photo portraits of loved ones, as well as Modigliani-inspired drawings, 3D birds and multicultural masks with a contemporary spin. In addition to the students at I.S. 77, students from Teller Avenue Educational Campus, 228X Jonas Bronck Academy and 219X New Venture Academy in The Bronx; 51K William Alexander School and 88K Peter Rouget School in Brooklyn; and 165M Robert E. Simon School in Manhattan will have their artwork on display during the exhibition. LEAP is a nonprofi t organization founded in 1977 that works to improve the quality of education for public school students through an art-based approach to teaching the core curriculum. LEAP has provided music, dance, theater, fi lm and visual arts programs to over 2 million students in pre-K through 12th grade, empowering them to reach their full potential. Photo via Shutterstock Queens UNICO installs newest member Queens UNICO has recently installed its newest member. Enrico Boletti has now joined the chapter. Boletti is pictured with Photo courtesy of Queens UNICO Joe Corsini, past district governor; Michael Mucaria, chapter president; and Salvatore Tomaselli, chapter executive vice president. Photo courtesy of LEAP
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