6. Sampling Mural on Varick Street
On July 12th, The Children’s Museum of the Arts and the New York Public Library’s Picture Collection unveiled a mural collaboration titled, Sampling. The large-scale collage, on view in the windows of The Jerome L. Greene Performance Space at WNYC, commemorates the 50th anniversary of Hip-Hop and was created by the students of the local City-As-School, one of the oldest alternative public high schools in the country.
With images provided by the NYPL Picture Collection archive, Sampling is named after visual and musical sampling, both practices used in Hip-Hop music and collage artforms. Like sampling a track in a song, the students of City-As-School took pre-existing media and transformed it into their own collective artwork. The artists incorporated self-portraits alongside cut-out photos of the early pioneers of Hip-Hop like Notorious BIG, RUN DMC, Slick Rick, and TLC. The exhibit, which exists to ignite the imaginations of young creatives and showcase local teen talent, will be on view until the end of August.
