Lady K-Fever Highlights LEAP's Bronx Student Exhibition At Claremont Park June 19

Popular New York street artist Lady K-Fever will join more than 100 NYC public school students in the Bronx portion of what is one of the largest public displays of student art in New York City. LEAP's Rising Voices: Bronx Student Public Art Exhibition will be held Tuesday, June 19, at Claremont Park, 3:30 pm to 5 pm. The event location is in the northern end of Claremont Park, just south of the park house and gazebo. Students from six Bronx classes in three schools will display ordinary cafeteria tables turned into social justice murals advocating for issues of concern to the students.

Lady K-Fever will speak about the power of art, while students from each of the schools will speak about the inspiration for their artwork. The six tables will be on display in the park, near the students' schools, for the general public to enjoy until autumn.

These six tables are part of a citywide public art exhibit that encompasses all five boroughs. The 11 tables created through LEAP's Public Art program were brought together for a enthusiastic citywide celebration on June 5 in Union Square in Manhattan. Now the tables are being unveiled in parks in each borough.

LEAP's 2018 Public Art: Rising Voices participating schools include:

Six tables from I.S. 117X/Joseph H. Wade, P.S./I.S. 211X, and the Teller Avenue Educational Campus in the Bronx; as well as 447K/Math & Science Exploratory School in Brooklyn; I.S. 51R/Edwin Markham in Staten Island; University Middle School/332M in Manhattan; and I.S. 75Q/Robert E. Peary and I.S. 77Q in Queens.

Students address topics such as anti-bullying, immigration, mental health, equality, respect for persons with disabilities, women's rights, and racism.

LEAP's Public Art Program is an ongoing in-school and afterschool artist residency that uses a social justice framework to empower middle and high school students to have a voice in their communities and express themselves on social issues through the creation and public exhibition of art. This program instills social responsibility and civic engagement, imparts artistic skills, concepts and techniques, and fosters peer leadership, self-confidence and collaboration.

LEAP's mission is to provide quality educational arts programs to promote access and equity for New York City students underserved in the arts. Through artistic inquiry and expression, LEAP inspires diverse school communities to be more engaged in learning and build their creativity, collaboration, communication, and critical thinking skills.

LEAP's Public Art program is made possible in part by The New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, and public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, as well as The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation, The Marta Heflin Foundation, The Kinder Morgan Foundation, The Keith Haring Foundation, and The Fridolin Charitable Trust.

For more information, and additional information, go to leapnyc.org