New York City public school students had the opportunity to show off their “artivism” (art + activism) in an exhibit hosted in the entrance to Brooklyn’s Barclays Center on July 27 and 28.
Barclays hosted the fourth annual Basquiat Project student art show, which featured 85 works of art made by local students. Financed by the Joe and Clara Tsai Foundation’s Social Justice Fund, the Basquiat Project has students take part in a year-long curriculum that teaches them about the life and art of the Brooklyn-born 1980s painter, Jean-Michel Basquiat.
Here are a few of the students’ pieces.
“Power” by Levi Ferreira, Grade 6
“She is Seen” by Stephanie Mondesir, Grade 7
“Warming Warning” by Anna Huang, Grade 8
“Disparities” by Ashley King, Grade 11
“Charles Migration” by Anasaria Barrios, Grade 8
“Water is Life” by Emilia Myers, Grade 5
“Black Lives Matter” by Janiya Price, Grade 4
