Leola Bermanzohn
While enthralled in the mindset of jazz performance at Hunter College, I began drawing abstract portraits. Soon afterward, creating my first public mural gave me a deep sense of purpose. Being a channel for a collective consciousness and interpreting it into art was the best thing I've ever done. Becoming a Groundswell teaching artist in 2012 carries this process to the present, making the future look bright and colorful, just like our murals.
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We Are a Community of Knowledge
The mural is inspired by the participant's ideas developed after the community partners' presentation. It conveys the notions of the importance of education, sports and art at PS 282 by using speci... -
Assembling the Future
Designed by a talented team of New York City young women, Assembling the Future illustrates that the building of a strong healthy child is a community responsibility. They were inspired by th... -
Attack of the Second Hand Smoke
To create You SmokeWe All Smoke and "Attack of the Second Hand Smoke, students from IS 318explored smoking as a public health issue in partnership with Woodhull Asthma Awareness Progr... -
You Smoke…We All Smoke
To create You SmokeWe All Smoke and "Attack of the Second Hand Smoke, students from IS 318 explored smoking as a public health issue in partnership with Woodhull Asthma Awareness Progr... -
For Those Who Speak and Those Who Have Yet To Speak
For Those Who Speak and Those Who Have Yet To Speak celebrates women as international community through representations of global struggles of and progress by women. -
CautionMan
Installed on a streetfacing wall of PS 10, "CautionMan" depicts an intersection with a crosswalk like those found adjacent to a school. Two children, painted in the style of a street sign silhouette, are about to step into the street.
