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- Winthrop Beacon III Community Center Art
Gallery
Written
- Program Director
On Saturday, April
29th, 2006 twenty-two junior high
school students from Winthrop Beacon III
Community Center and David Ruggles Middle School
competed in an Art Gallery Competition sponsored
by Visions of Pearls, a group of Alpha Kappa
Alpha Sorority, Inc. women working towards
establishing a second graduate chapter in
Brooklyn, NY. During the Winthrop Beacon III
Community Center after school program and David
Ruggles Middle School art program, students
developed artwork based on the theme “When I
look outside my window…” Students created images
of Brooklyn which captured their blocks,
schools, and neighborhoods. The intent of this
theme was to not only challenge their creativity
but to obtain insight into the way the community
is perceived by our youth. The members of
Visions of Pearls truly hope that the youth will
be inspired to make the arts apart of their life
while at the same time providing them a voice to
the community.
This event not only
highlighted visual arts but dance and poetry as
well. While the judges deliberated, Kurtis
Watkins a professional artist who received his
Masters of Fine Arts from Rutgers University,
spoke to young people about the arts and
inspired them to continue creating beautiful art
work. He presented the grand prizewinner with
one of his signature prints. Zaire, a spoken
word poet, serenaded the audience with warm
poetry inspired by the art competitions theme
and the Winthrop Beacon III Community Center
hip-hop intermediate boys dance group performed
to Marios song “Just a friend.”
The judges G. Marcellus, I.S. 232 Music Teacher,
Jo-Anne Foster, Educational Resource Manager,
Brooklyn Children's Museum, and Revital Kaisar,
Assistant Professor in the Music and Art
Department of Borough of Manhattan Community
College had a very difficult time choosing the
winners.
The
grand prizewinner was
Kenji Butler. The 1st place winner
was Isaih Rosemond and the 2nd place
winner was Nanyah Franklin. The grand
prizewinner received a digital camera, the 1st
prize winner received a $30 gift card to the
movies, and the 2nd prize winner won
a $20 gift card to Sam Goody. All 22 of the
participants art work will be displayed at the
Brooklyn Children’s Museum during the month of
May.
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