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Artist Statement: The piano itself is a beautiful form, a machine delicately filled with organized pieces to create an endless combination of sounds. Similarly, New York City is a loaded mass of bits and fragments that collide, blend, and organize in wildly creative ways. This piece is a high-contrast celebration of piano’s pure shape as well as the gorgeous overload of city life. The red is the city as a low-hanging cloud, a cluster of chatter and thoughts, a loud blast of layered structures and lives lived. The white is the empty space to breathe, a respite from the noise, a moment to appreciate form alone.
  • 2019

Red Thought Cluster

ARTIST

Julia Cocuzza
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Born and raised in Reading, Pennsylvania, Julia Cocuzza is a Brooklyn-based painter, muralist, designer, print maker, and educator. She is most interested in the intersection of public art and education, leading projects with organizations such as Groundswell, NYC Mural Arts Project, and (of course) Sing For Hope. Her paintings capture the loaded intersections, layers, and fragments of daily living, with a particular affection for urban structures and systems, human interaction, music, and obsolete media. She received a BFA from Syracuse University and MFA from Brooklyn College, as well as artist residencies from Prairie Center for the Arts and Wassaic Art Project.

Public Location

Lowery Plaza: 40th St at Queens Boulevard, Queens

Permanent Home

This Sing for Hope Piano will be delivered to a public school, healthcare facility, or community center to inspire lives for years to come.

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Founders' Circle

  • The International Foundation for Arts and Culture
    (Dr. Haruhisa Handa, Chairman, Sing for Hope Global Patron)
  • The Arnhold Foundation in loving memory of Sissy and Henry Arnhold
  • The Thea Petschek Iervolino Foundation
  • The Anna-Maria & Stephen Kellen Foundation
  • Jacqueline Novogratz and Chris Anderson
  • The Seedlings Foundation 
  • Ann Ziff

Sing for Hope is supported, in part, by the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and by the Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation.

 

Sing for Hope is the official Cultural Partner of the World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates.

Sing for Hope is a registered 501(c)(3) charitable organization (EIN 01-0856384). A copy of our most recently filed financial report is available from the Charities Registry on the New York State Attorney General’s website (www.charitiesnys.com) or, upon request, by contacting the New York State Attorney General, Charities Bureau, 28 Liberty Street, New York, NY 10005, or Sing for Hope at 99 Wall Street #1812, New York, NY 10005. You also may obtain information on charitable organizations from the New York State Office of the Attorney General at www.charitiesnys.com or (212) 416-8401.

Our mission is “art for all” – we actively engage those with special physical or intellectual needs. Both our office and our SFH Pianos Studio at 28 Liberty are ADA compliant, as are our partner sites.