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Mural co-designed with Nikki Scioscia for Northwell Health Long Island Jewish Forest Hills Hospital
in collaboration with FIT MFA Illustration

When the first wave of Covid-19 struck in 2020, Queens quickly became no man’s land, with its hospital workers directly on the front line.
LIJ Forest Hills-Northwell Heath, on 66th Road, like many hospitals in the borough, lost many patients to the pandemic. But the hospital also would lose four of its own who fought in the trenches.

On Tuesday, the hospital, along with artists from the Fashion Institute of Technology in Manhattan, put the finishing touches on murals in an outdoor courtyard to remember all from Queens who passed
.

“This is a place where staff members come to relax,” said Merav deGuzman, director of patient and customer experience at the hospital. They now will be able to do so with lively artwork dedicated to their colleagues.

Jensine Eckwall of Ridgewood and Nikki Scioscia of Brooklyn, both illustrators and graduate students at FIT, were hard at work brushing acrylic paint in outlines that previously had been sketched onto both walls over the previous four days.“

-The Queens Chronicle

Writeup from Northwell Health

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