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Fifth Annual Dip Against Homelessness
Representatives from BronxWorks, BronxNet, the Bronx Polar Bear Bears gather before the 2018 Dip Against Homelessness at Orchard Beach.
SCA students participate in StArt 2019 Art Exhibition
Three St. Catharine
Academy students were
among the approximately
90 high school students who
had their work exhibited
at the StArt 2019 Regional
High School Art Exhibition
at Concordia College
in Bronxville, New York.
Thirty-one private and
public high schools from
the Bronx and Westchester,
Fairfi eld, Orange, and
Rockland Counties participated
in the exhibition.
Goals of the exhibition
are to give high school
students an opportunity to
showcase their work in a
professional gallery and to
build their credentials and
portfolios for college. Students
from St. Catharine
Academy who participated
are seniors Shania Burrus,
Kamilah Guerrero, and
Leeana Mullamphy.
Mullamphy’s painting
was of her 80-year-old
grandmother’s hand. “My
art piece depicts my grandmother’s
hand and the
many years she has used
them to work,” said Leeana.
“My grandmother is
the essence of work ethic
because she raised her family
and once owned and ran
a bodega. I believe that my
grandmother’s hands are
so beautiful because they
have aided her to become
the person she was meant
to be, a strong independent
woman.”
Guerrero’s work, using
the mediums of oil, pastel,
collage paper and ribbon,
was inspired by her
mother. “I looked at my
mother embracing a tree,
and that sparked something!
The ribbons represent
a lifeline coming out
of the branches, a storyline
in our lives.”
Burrus, who plans to
pursue a career in architecture,
incorporated acrylic
and Gelli prints to create
her concentration theme,
trying to fi nd oneself in the
midst of urban design.
Speaking to the experience
of seeing her art exhibited,
Leeana said, “It
was a privilege to show my
art piece at the O’Silas Gallery
as well as see other
artists’ work. Viewing
both your own work and
other’s allows you to truly
appreciate the diversity
that arises from our love of
the arts.”
St. Catharine Academy
offers a comprehensive visual
arts program where
students may take three
years of art. The curriculum
includes introduction
to art, drawing and painting
I and II, advertising design,
fashion design, photo
shop, and culminates with
AP Studio Art. In recent
years SCA graduates have
pursued their studies at
the School of Visual Arts,
Fashion Institute of Design
and Merchandising, Fashion
Institute of Technology
and SUNY Purchase.
(L-r) Art teacher Deborah Ross with Shania Burrus, Kamilah Guerrero, and Leeana Mullamphy standing
before their works of art.
BronxNet and BronxWorks
will partner with The Bronx Polar
Bears for the for The Fifth
Annual Dip Against Homelessness.
The event will take place on
Saturday, February 9 at Orchard
Beach.
The event will kick off at 1 a.m.
with an offi cial welcome, safety
instructions and warm-ups.
The big plunge into the cold
waters of the Long Island Sound
will take place at noon. The team
will include BronxWorks executive
director Eileen Torres,
BronxNet executive director Michael
Max Knobbe, friends and
staff of both organizations as well
as a few other special guests!
“For the fi fth year in a row,
we are thrilled to gather with
our community partners, Bronx-
Net and The Bronx Polar Bears,
to show support for our most vulnerable
neighbors,” states Torres.
“Together, we will continue
to raise awareness of homelessness
in the Bronx at this worthwhile
annual event.”
All are invited to attend, but
registration is requested to help
raise money for services provided
by BronxWorks for the homeless
population of the Bronx. Each
year, the BronxWorks Homeless
Outreach Team (HOT) makes
thousands of contacts with street
homeless men and women. Engagement
is the fi rst step in
bringing about change. A trip to
the BronxWorks Living Room/
Safe Haven or a safe bed at a
church that collaborates with
BronxWorks is a critical interim
step before BronxWorks helps
street homeless persons obtain
permanent housing.
Visit www.bronxworks.org/
dip-against-homelessness to register
or contact BronxWorks at
(646) 393-4002 or agangi@bronxworks.
org if you have any questions.
Donations of new warm winter
gear including hats, gloves,
socks, and scarves are also appreciated
and may be brought
to the event, a BronxWorks location,
or BronxNet Television at
Lehman College.
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