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Published on Thursday, May 26, 2011 by jose NYFA’s IAP has been working with immigrant artists for something close to four years now. Both IAP and NNY work with immigrants and the arts, but in different ways. IAP works with professional artists and NNY works with the general public. There have been occasions in which one of our users transitioned from our program [...]...

Published on Tuesday, November 16, 2010 by jose -by Katherine Sabal This 2010 Fall season ushered in a new set of classes for the New New Yorkers Program. One class was an intermediate digital photography course entitled Inspire Me!, a class I was able to take part in. Inspirations was taught in English by artist Sol Aramendi and met every Sunday for [...]...

Published on Tuesday, September 7, 2010 by jose signs/banners/backdrops update Published: September 6, 2010 by Hans and Rivka through Madagascar Institute. So, we had a lovely day arting in tents outside the Queens Museum… Here’s an update and some images of what we did, we’ll be continuing to work next week Sunday from 1pm-5pm and it would be most awesome if any [...]...

Published on Tuesday, August 3, 2010 by aichenlin Aichen Lin is a QMA staff member and helps head New New Yorkers in addition to teaching classes.  This past Spring she taught a Digital Storytelling class in Mandarin at the museum and also at Flushing Library.  Here is more about the class from Aichen:   What was the focus of the class? Digital Storytelling class was taught [...]...

Published on Wednesday, July 21, 2010 by drome    The Open Studio was started as a part of ArtAccess six years ago by Donnielle Rome who while working with adult clients with special needs in residential homes noticed that they weren’t doing much on the weekends.  The Open Studio was created in order to help create an opportunity for adults with special needs to [...]...

Published on Monday, May 24, 2010 by Alexandra García The Panamerican International High School is dedicated to students that have been in the United States for three years or less and helps them in the process of adaptation and improving their English. They also have a parallel school for parents in recognition that they also need to adapt to the system of education in [...]...

Published on Saturday, May 22, 2010 by Gabriel In compliance with the Mayor’s Executive Order 120 which mandates that all city agencies that interact with the public in providing services must devise and implement a Language Access Plan for those with limited English proficiency (approximately 1/4 of all New Yorkers), The NYC Parks Department implemented a new Language Access system in Fall 2009 [...]...

Published on Wednesday, October 7, 2009 by aichenlin Associate Coordinator New New Yorkers Programs Aichen’s extensive experience teaching media and web design to a variety of audiences and her fluency in English, Mandarin, and Taiwanese makes her a valuable asset to the New New Yorkers program. Her past work includes assisting on the exhibition design for an Asia Society show in Houston. [...]...