Testimonial Tiles: Artwork from Fall 2025 School Partnerships
TESTIMONIAL TILES:
ARTWORK FROM 2026 SCHOOL PARTNERSHIPS
On View: April 16 – May 24, 2026
Opening: Thursday, April 23 • 3 – 5 PM • Learn More>>
About the Exhibition
This exhibition features artwork created by students in our School Partnerships Program. Students visited the exhibition Ministry: Reverend Joyce McDonald, learned about the artist’s intuitive approach to clay-based sculpture, and created artwork that depicts notions of home, family, self-identity, and friendship.
Reverend Joyce McDonald describes herself as a testimonial artist, using sculpture to share her life story and honor the people who have shaped it. Her work often depicts loved ones, lost lives, and emotions such as gratitude, hopelessness, and belonging.
Through prompts that explored these themes of personal identity and community, students from five Bronx-based public schools learned to use air-dry clay as a storytelling tool, molding and shaping the clay onto tiles to narrate a personal testimony expressing who they are. These tiles were meant to be arranged alongside others to reflect the multitude of experiences that students had while connecting with Reverend Joyce McDonald’s artwork.
About School Partnerships
The Bronx Museum’s school partnerships are deep collaborations with local partner schools in which students experience the Museum, develop collaborative skills, and create art. These programs connect the Museum’s exhibitions to students’ coursework and their own creative making.
If you are interested in becoming a school partner, please email education@bronxmuseum.org.
School Partners and Teachers
P.S. 032 Belmont, Sele Ortiz, Teacher.
South Bronx Academy for Applied Media (SBAAM), Deja Senghor and Emily Borgers-Lewis, Teachers.
P.S. 58X Community School, Jacqueline Novello, Art Teacher.
I.S. 206 Ann Mersereau, Masiel Guichardo, Art Teacher.
P.S./I.S. 218 Rafael Hernandez Dual Language Magnet School, Jose Dela Cruz, Art Teacher.
Support
School Partnerships and Group Tours for Public Schools are generously supported by the MacMillan Family Foundation, The William Randolph Hearst Foundation, The Edith and Frances Mulhall Achilles Memorial Foundation, Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund, LeRoy Neiman and Janet Byrne Neiman Foundation, Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation, Robert Lehman Foundation, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation, the BIC Corporate Foundation, MetLife Foundation, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul, the New York State Legislature, New York State Senator Jose M. Serrano, New York State Senator Luis Sepulveda, The New Yankee Stadium Community Benefit Fund, O’Grady Foundation, William Talbott Hillman Foundation and New York City Council Member Althea Stevens.