7/30/2019 Family Art Project at Wave Hill, Riverdale, Bronx NY

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Har l em News Gr ou p B R O N XHARLEM . QUEENS . BROOKLYN . BRONX

Agreat opportunity for parents with chil-

dren is the Family Art Project, a free

Saturday morning event at Wave Hill,

Bronx-a botanical garden in the Riverdale

neighborhood. The latest family art project,

great for the fall season, was called Printing

the Palisades. An intern at the door of the

Ecology Center building took the parents and

children out on a walk in the woods to gather

some leaves for the project. Then inside Ms.

Rama greeted us and told us about the project

and then read a storybook to children. It was a

story about blowing fall leaves that formed the

Leaf Man. Other times the wind would blow

the leaves and form shapes of birds, mountains

or animals.

In a large room below, art interns told

people how to make this week's project. My

child and I first glued a leaf to a white block

paper for the printing element. Using rollers,

we covered the printing element with blue,

red, yellow or other shades of paint. Then the

ink-heavy print went face down on a large

piece of construction paper, and we rolled it

and peeled off the print. It worked pretty well,

with the leaf portion of the printer coloring thepaper much more heavily than the other areas.

Doing this several times created an interesting

picture, or you could also paint little painted

leaves and glue them to the paper. Finally,

after 2 hours of playing with paint and getting

pretty dirty, we went outside to look at the

exotic plants and trees. We went to where

children played on the large lawn in front of

the Glyndor Gallery, also site of an art exhibit-

Fore-grounding the Palisades. Don't miss the

impressive views from high up, to and across

the Hudson to the Palisades cliffs of New Jer-

sey.

On another recent Family Art project,

families made paper cut-outs of falcons and

other predatory birds. Using pre-made tem-

plates for the different birds' heads made better

bird cut-outs. Another option was tracing a

spiral cutout for a snake from a template, col-

oring it in, and then cutting out the snake.

A different Family Art project had parents and

children going off into the woods to make little

fairy houses out of sticks and leaves, for a pre-

Halloween themed project.

The next couple of weeks have Fami-

ly Art projects with harvest and holiday

themes: Nov 17th is for creating corn husk

dolls; November 24th is for making harvest

time hangings; Dec 1st is the making of festive

candles; and Dec 8th is making hand-drawn

holiday greeting cards.

You can take a free Wave Hill shuttle

bus from the West 241st St stop of the number

1 subway, and admission is free Saturday

mornings before noon. The family art projectruns from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and is for children

between 4 and 12 years old. Wave Hill is open

year round. The entrance to Wave Hill is locat-

ed at W 249th Street and Independence

Avenue, and Wave Hill is open from 9 a.m.

until 4:30 p.m. in the fall and winter. For more

information go to http://wavehill.org or call

718-549-3200.

FAM ILY ART PROJECT AT

WAVE HILLBy Howard Giske

Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. today

invited Bronx residents to make a dif-

ference in their community by joining

their local Community Board. The Office of

the Bronx Borough President will be accepting

applications for all 12 Community Boards

from city residents who reside, work or have

professional or other significant interests in

the Bronx.

"Participation on local Community

Boards can provide Bronx residents with a

forum to share with their community their

expertise and talents," said Borough President

Diaz. "It is important that community resi-

dents participate in the decision making

process in their communities on important

budget, land use and service delivery issues."

Applications are available at the Bor-

ough President's Community Board office at(718) 590-3914 or at your local community

board office. Interested applicants may also

get forms on-line at bronxboropres.nyc. gov.

The deadline for submission of applications

for the next round of appointments is February

8, 2013.

BP DI AZ URGES

BRONX RESIDENTS TO

APPLY TO THEIR LOCAL

COM M UNITY BOARD

M

ind-Builders Creative Arts Center will

receive the "Partners of Adolescent &

Young Adult Health Program (AYAHP)

Special Recognition Award" sponsored by theBronx Lebanon Hospital Center at their 10th

Anniversary Luncheon Celebration from 12 to 2pm

on Thursday, November 15, 2012 at Giovanni's

Restaurant, Bronx, NY for their dedication and

commitment to Bronx teens. The award was estab-

lished by AYAHP to honor and recognize deserv-

ing, supportive organizations from the Bronx area

that support youth.

The award has special meaning to Mind-

Builders Executive Director, Madaha Kinsey-Lamb,

because it will be presented by one of the alumni of

the drama program, Cynthia Lewis, M.D. who is

now Chief of the Division of Adolescent Medicine

and a dedicated pediatrician with the Hospital. Dr.

Lewis says that presenting Mind-Builders with the

award "completes yet another circle" in her life.

AYAHP also partners with Mind-Builders Positive

Youth Troupe, the theatrical training and perfor-

mance program that uses compelling productions

that encourage youth to make healthy choices whenfaced with life's challenges. Dr. Lewis credits this

partnership as contributing to the success of the

AYAHP program.

Ms. Kinsey-Lamb, originally a public

school teacher and arts enthusiast, founded Mind-

Builders Creative Arts Center in 1978, after realiz-

ing there was not an afterschool arts program for her

child in Northeast Bronx.

MIN D-BUILDERS CREATIVE ARTS

CENTER HON ORED FOR SER VICE TO

YOUTH AND COMMUNI TY BY

LEBANON HOSPITAL