Art: Children’s mural/artist reception at Irish Arts Center

This month we’ve turned our gallery into a work space to host
a collaborative children’s mural created by a group of 4th graders from the Hell’s Kitchen community.  Come hear about their experiences at our artists talk and reception on August 23, featuring the artists themselves and teaching artist Pamella Allen.
  

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Monday – Friday | 10 am – 6 pm   

Please call 212-757-3318

During the month of August, teaching artist Pamella Allen will devise a mural with a group of fourth graders from Irish Arts Center’s local Hell’s Kitchen community. Using John Montague’s translation of the Irish poem “In the Footsteps of Colmcille” as inspiration and as an introduction to the Irish language, students will engage, participate and become exposed to the arts and culture of Ireland while creating a unique and beautiful mural for display in the Irish Arts Center Gallery.

Reserve through irishartscenter.org or 866-811-4111   

   

On some island I long to be ,

a rocky promontory, looking on the coiling surface of the sea.

To see the waves, crest on crest

Of the great shining ocean, composing

A hymn to the creator without rest.

To see without sadness the strand

Lined with bright shells, and birds

Lamenting overhead, a lonely sound.

To hear the whisper of small waves

Against rocks, that endless

Sea-sound, like keening over graves

To watch the sea-birds sailing

In flocks, amd most marvelous

Of monsters the turning whale.

To see the shift from ebbtide

To flood and tell my secret name;

“He who set his back on Ireland.”