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P.S. 4 On Stage (Stage Left) and
(Stage Right), The Library, and Good Morning in New
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Completion Date:
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1996
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Medium:
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Ceramics
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Dimensions:
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n/a
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Location:
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Public School 4
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Address:
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500 West 160th Street, Manhattan
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Architect:
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Gruzen Samton Steinglass
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Sponsor Agency:
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Board of Education
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Design Agency:
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School Construction Authority
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Camille Billops's four
handmade ceramic tile murals, located at P.S. 4, portray students' school-day
activities in whimsical scenes that combine images of city life with those taken
from Dominican folklore and song. In the diptych P.S. 4 On Stage (Stage
Left) and (Stage Right), children are shown painting scenery, filming a
scene, wearing costumes, and performing in a play. In The Library,
children and animals, including a snake and an alligator, engage in activities
together against the backdrop of the city's skyline. Billops's Good Morning
in New York
illustrates the city's diversity by showing New Yorkers wishing each other "good morning" in dozens of different languages.
About the Artist...
Born and educated in Los Angeles, Camille Billops holds a B.A. from California State College and an M.F.A. from City College in New York. Her sculpture, drawings and prints have been exhibited at The Studio Museum in Harlem; The New Museum; The Wilmer Jennings Gallery; the Washington Project for the Arts in Washington D.C.; Atlanta College of Art; and one-person exhibitions in Cairo, Hamburg, and Taiwan. In addition, she has completed four films which have received funding from New York State Council on the Arts, National Endowment for the Arts, Jerome Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts, Rockefeller, and AIVF. Suzanne Suzanne (1983) was screened at New Directors-New Films and on Independent Focus, Ch. 13. Finding Christa (1993) won the Grand Jury Award at the Sundance Film Festival and was screened on POV, Ch. 13 and at New Directors-New Films at the Museum of Modern Art. She is currently working on her fifth film, A String of Pearls. Billops co-produces and directs with her husband James Hatch.
Artist Quote...
This work was made for the children, not the adults. -- Billops, 1997
