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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 Friday, May 13, 2011 by Michelle López Part of our Autism Initiatives is to locate resources in the community where parents could find information about autism in various languages.  Hana Joo, ArtAccess Educator, took the mission to the streets of Flushing.  She found the book “Emergence: Labeled Autistic” by Temple Grandin PhD, in Korean, “어느 자폐인 이야기“  It is a lovely ha...

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, August 3, 2010 by jose Georgie Flores is an artist educator for the museum’s New New Yorkers program.  This past Spring he taught a bilingual class in Spanish and English on Watercolor Painting.  Here is what he had to say about the class, what students learned, and about being a part of the New New Yorkers program:   What do students focus [...]...

Published on Tuesday, August 3, 2010 by jose As the instructor of the New New Yorkers ESOL class (English for Speakers of Other Languages), Rivka Karasik seeks to provide students with a comfortable environment in which they can interact with others from different cultures and backgrounds and increase their confidence levels in speaking English.  Students usually meet in the “cozy archive center” in [...]...