Sue’s art students rose to her latest assignment – honoring Hispanic Painters during Hispanic Heritage Week; her 7th, 8th, and 10th-grade students made some fantastic art in honor of the week-long celebration of the Hispanic influence on our culture. Ja’Zell painted her mystical fantasy painting above.

The assignment was to mirror the work of famous Hispanic artists; the students responded beautifully, using the glass paint and other tools donated to them by the Army Of Good from all over the country.

Thanks again for donating art supplies and platforms and discarded objects and items to use in their work.

Sue isn’t looking for money; she’s looking for the things we don’t use anymore and haven’t yet thrown out. She is turning them into exciting and innovative art projects for her students at Bishop Gibbons High School in Schenectady, N.Y.

Here is the address for those of you with more things to send – old jewelry, clothing, wood, toys, vintage fabrics, paint supplies, old cameras and lamps,  and brushes, etc. – you can send these items to Sue Silverstein, Bishop Gibbons, 2600 Albany Street, Schenectady, N.Y., 12304. She will take whatever objects you send her and turn them into challenging art for her students.

Her art program is a smash at Bishop Gibbons; her classes are way overbooked in the age of TikTok. Art is still important to young and developing minds; her work gives them confidence and stimulation. I hope to be out at the school next week, and I find Sue’s work with her art students among the most exciting and uplifting thing I’ve ever seen.

 

 

This is beautiful work and a tribute to the impact of Hispanic Culture on America. Sue’s imagination is boundless.