FOCUS– IT JUST KEEPS GETTING BETTER!

(l to r) Magic Box Students: Treysi, Luis, Brandon, LeKiyrah

Magic Box Student Brandon with his teacher Elisa Degregorio

Magic Box Student Treysi

Magic Box Student Brandon with his mother

Doug Colombo and Earlane Stanfield-Colombo

Peter Staack & Nancy Camarata

Paul Lucas, Kendall Messick, Lekiyrah

Steve Paletta, Christine Paletta, & Brett Perrine

Michael Benedetto

Magic Box Executive Board Members Pashmeena Hilal and Nora Rodriguez

Anuj Pandya

International High School at Lafayette teacher Rakibat Abiola

Kurt Sung and Leanna McLennan

Judy Passer with Mark & Susanne Shapiro

Sarfaraz Rajan, Yasmin Hilal, & Aditya Naik

Stuart Vance & Lisa Erbach

Chi & John Lei

Executive Director Nelle Stokes & Sarah Boone

Judy Sandford

Ariele Jennings & Tiffany Lin

Beth Reifers

Valerie Park & Nancy Camarata

Bob Trismen

Linda Key & Jim Gossett

Maryann Alfano & Judy Passer

Richard Hervas, Sarfaraz Rajan, and Shireen Hilal]

(back row) Executive Board Members: Annette Nash-Govan, Brette Westerlund, Nora Rodriguez, Nancy Barry, Pashmeena Hilal (front row) Executive Director Nelle Stokes, Board Member Nancy Camarata

Francine Lynch and Brette Westerlund

Magic Box Student Luis takes over the camera

Lekiyrah, Kendall Messick, & Paul Lucas

Magic Box Student Brandon with his photograph

Magic Box Student Luis with his photograph

Dorothy Sales and Emily Cramer

Magic Box Student Lekiyrah with her photograph

Magic Box Student Treysi with her photograph

Julie Diez Berkowitz and Nancy Barry

Parents of Chelsea Student Photographer Nathaniel with his photograph

Magic Box Student Luis takes over the video content

Joan Davidson

Linda Key & Paul Lucas

Lekiyrah with her Aunt speaking about her artistic vision

Brandon speaking about the artistic vision behind his photograph

Treysi with teacher Rakibat speaking about her experience with Magic Box

Julie Diez Berkowitz and Nancy Barry

Skip Weinstock Trio

The Animation Station

Magic Box Board President Annette Nash-Govan

Susan Sales and Emily Cramer

On May 22nd, Magic Box celebrated its 14th year at the annual fundraising event FOCUS. Set in the stunning Salmagundi Club with live jazz from the Skip Weinstock Trio, FOCUS featured over 40 photographs and videos by our students that showcased the power of the young artists' eyes as they fell on the spaces, places, and the people of New York throughout the school year. The evening highlighted the work our Teaching Artists do with Teaching Fellow Stephen Kwok and Teaching Artist Haley Shibble presenting examples of a residency and its process. As well, students from Staten Island and Manhattan schools took the podium to talk about their experience with Magic Box programming. With bites and sips, a silent auction, wine winners raffle and more, FOCUS was quite a night to remember!