MISS LIBERTY: A MONUMENTAL MOSAIC
DAVID WAKSTEIN + THE FOUR STATIONS
An art & education project from Israel
Conducted and organized by artist David Wakstein
May 3-May 28, 2005

A “Miss Liberty” floor mosaic will be created especially for White Box’s floor by 120 students from the four Art Stations and studios operating in Ofakim, Ramle, Nazareth and Jerusalem in Israel. Art Stations is an artist-led art-and-education project and workshop initiative established in 1997. In these Stations the student, tutor and artist all take part to emphasize the meaning of cooperation and joint creation as an alternative to violence and the violent dialogue in which both groups have traditionally been engaged. The Art Stations and Art Studios provide an opportunity for young people from opposite extremes to meet and communicate safely in the midst of a society full of disparities and unsolved conflicts. The art works created at the Art Stations studios are joint ventures raising questions about equality, teamwork and shared responsibility practiced through collaborative work in painting and mosaic. Miss Liberty is to be a joint creation of all the Art Stations and epitomizes the possibility of integration, between the center and the periphery, the Jews and the Arabs, the adults and the young people, the tutors and the students, the West and the East. The mosaic floor work will also feature a British caricature published during World War II, on which the Statue of Liberty is seen floating on the sea, on a pedestal in the shape of a Star of David.