Baldwin students design murals for LIJ

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Eighteen Baldwin High School art students spent months painting and photographing murals to calm patients at Long Island Jewish Valley Stream, and on May 28, the students unveiled their work to the hospital’s staff.

“The students do a great job,” said Helen White, the hospital’s community relations manager. “It’s almost like professional artwork.”

Long Island Jewish donated the art supplies to the high school, and the hospital’s administration will hang the works — with names such as “Starry Mountains,” “It’s a Bees World and “Calming Sunset” — in the orthopedic and patient units.

This was the third year the students participated in the Calming Murals Project. The hospital also partnered with Baldwin High School for Shadow Days and for the Northwell Health SPARK Challenge, which Baldwin students won this past year.