A collection of reliquaries created by 5th-graders called Kids Collect! is on view at the City Reliquary from 12/17 to 1/13. The City Reliquary and PS 132 in Williamsburg, got together to teach and help the kids make their own reliquary:
Each child turned a cardboard box into a “reliquary” and gathered small personal objects in order to tell their own New York narrative, including but not limited to: Metrocards, souvenirs of NYC, precious stones, baseball cards, local restaurant take-out menus and drawings of famous NY landmarks. Throughout the process of collecting and displaying their objects, the students shared stories about living in New York, learned professional museum techniques and strategies, and built vocabulary and math skills.
Admission is on a donations basis, and visiting is by appointment only. For more information, contact The City Reliquary.
—Vaduzuvunt
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1 Brenda from Flatbush // Dec 30, 2008 at 10:45 am
I wonder, in our faith-purged public education world, whether the kiddies were told the original purpose of reliqueries: to hold the remains of holy men and women for veneration, as a tribute to the sacredness of the human body and its connection to the eternal. What I see on the jump is an ironic picture of a nudie doll, so I’m guessing not. Without this metaphysical dimension, the entire exercise becomes something kids have been doing on their own, without grant-funded artistes to guide them, for a long time: putting cool stuff in a cigar box.