If you weren’t there this weekend for our Works iN Progress 10-week art-making workshop kickoff, then make your way over next weekend for a good time. One of the The LP’s new Teaching Artists, Ifetayo Abdus-Salam, rocked the house or rather rocked the curb with her lesson, “Drawing/Breath.”

Each participant was given a piece of construction paper, a generous line of water-based ink, and a straw. Ife asked everyone to listen to the surrounding sounds and mirror them by blowing through their straws accordingly. Participants were then invited to enhance their pictures by adding color with chalk pastels. The results were beautiful.

See you next week! We’re right in front of The Laundry Room (143 W. 116th btwn Malcolm X + Adam Clayton Powell) every Saturday and Sunday weather permitting.

Until then…