Artist Yung Oh Le Page, left, has been working with Pine Street School students on a mini-golf hole for Governors Island.
Enter artist Yung Oh Le Page’s studio and it is easy to see why children get excited.
First, there is the mini-golf hole that Le Page and elementary school students at Pine Street School are constructing. Boxes outline its frame while poles with shapes on top — like planets — stand sentinel. But this mini-golf hole, slated to be on Governors Island this season, is different. It is Figment NYC’s first ever A.D.A. accessible for its annual island festival. At the head sits a wheelchair.
Then there is a wall of custom helmets that include oversized Minnie Mouse ears and an elephant and birds heads.
“They’re excited and they want to wear them,” said Le Page, who was giving a tour of his studio at the launch of a new pop-up museum on Tues., Mar. 3.
The Children’s Museum of the Arts partnered with Green Ivy Schools to sponsor the pop-up museum — 12 images from C.M.A.’s permanent collection will be on display at Pine Street School at 25 Pine St. through June.
Green Ivy Schools has two Lower Manhattan locations: Pine Street School, which opened last fall, and Battery Park Montessori in Battery Park City.
Students from both schools attend workshops at Le Page’s studio. He is both a C.M.A. teaching artist and an artist-in-residence at Pine Street.
The students are also working with Le Page on a collage of artwork that is right out their window: Jean Dubuffet’s “Groups of Four Trees” in Chase Manhattan Plaza.
There will be a “C.M.A. Day” event on Sat., Mar. 29 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Pine Street School that will be open to the public.
– DUSICA SUE MALESEVIC
