Closing Bell: Kids Decorate a Jackson Heights Laundry Room

A reader passed along a sweet story of kids transforming a basement laundry room in Jackson Heights. It’s called the Community Art Gallery and it’s located in Hampton Court. Arlene Wipfler and Sarah Muir put out a call to young artists in the coop (which is made up of 11 buildings of 15 apartments each) and the opening was held last week. Over 20 young artists, ranging in age from 8 months to 10 years, participated and saw their work professionally hung in the laundry room of one of the buildings. Work ranged from textile work that used fabric remnants and weaving, to 3D art, to an 8-month-old’s finger paints.