Sue Silverstein and the Bishop Gibbons High School Design Class are desperate for metal objects that can be reworked and used for making wind chimes with found objects that will be given out to people in the community and their families.

(USPS flat rate boxes are ideal for sending metal objects – you don’t have to worry about the weight and can find the boxes free at your post office.)

This is one of the first of the many new projects Sue is bringing to her new art classless at Bishop Gibbons, the school where almost all of the refugees from Bishop Maginn are going in September. At the old school, Sue had one small classroom; at Bishop Gibbons, she has an eight cubicle sweet in the basement.

She has fantastic plans for the school.

She is seeking found objects – used silverware, broken tools, broken wind chimes, anything rusty and relatively small. I think there are a lot of attics and basements with metal objects and are willing or eager to part with them; please consider sending them to:

Sue Silverstein, Design Class, Bishop Gibbons High School, 2600 Albany Road, Schenectady, N.Y., 12304.

They will help the students in the art class and get a new rebirth in life. You can e-mail Sue if you wish: [email protected]. She takes generosity and turns it into gold.

Sue says she’s planning all kinds of art projects for her new and relatively radical interactive art program. She has some great ideas, and I hope to meet with her regularly and keep track of them.

Sue spent all weekend stalking the streets of Albany for stones for her “Crystal Tree” idea. She says she’s going a bit nuts. She will teach the students to make their cards, statues, and a dozen kinds of art in her classes. They can use the art room when they have spare time.

If you have any old metal, please consider shipping it to her. She will put it to great use.

Sue Silverstein, Bishop Gibbons High School, 2600 Albany Road, Schenectady, N.Y., 12304.

Thanks.