THE ART OF MAKING ART

The Tony-nominated musical revival “Once on This Island” looked to hurricane-tossed Haiti for its scenic design. When the show asked acclaimed Haitian artist Yolene Legrand to create a mural to hang in the lobby of Circle in the Square Theatre, she reached out to teachers and students, many of whom are Haitian-American, from Williamsburg High School for Architecture and Design, to collaborate. The 5-by-10-foot mural went up Wednesday. “I was so thrilled by how excited the kids were, even just to contribute a small part to the overall mural,” Legrand told the Daily News. “I feel that I am accepted as member of the show and it gives me so much happiness to know it connected my Haitian background and my American citizenship.”