Brooklyn's Progress
March 2003

By Ruder Finn PR

Public school children from throughout New York City spent a day at the Metropolitan Museum of Art viewing the blockbuster exhibition, Leonardo da Vinci, Master Draftsman, and participating in drawing lessons to learn the
techniques practiced by the great artist himself 500 hundred years ago.

Students from I.S. 30 in Brooklyn were among the 500 students participating in the exhibition tours and activities.  Docents and guides for this special event were volunteers
 from Morgan Stanley. 

The exhibit, Leonardo da Vinci, Master Draftsman, is the first comprehensive exhibition of Leonardo da Vinci's drawings ever presented in America, bringing together nearly 120 works that survey the Renaissance master's staggering contribution as artist, scientist, theorist, and teacher.  The exhibition runs through March 30. 

The Monday Student Program was conceived by Morgan Stanley with the Metropolitan and the New York City Department of Education.  In addition to this program, a full-day educators' workshop was held at the Metropolitan on January 29 to help teachers develop a curriculum incorporating the exhibition, and Morgan Stanley has sponsored the distribution of student guides with free passes to the exhibition for NYC's 1.5 million schoolchildren and their families.