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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, March 22, 2011 by Michelle López As the program “Beautiful Oops” concludes its last session, it is nice to reflect on how wonderful the past six weeks have been at the McGoldrick library. Throughout the program, art educators Hana Joo and Jennifer Oppito have been exploring the book Beautiful Oops! by Barney Saltzberg and showing the students that “It’s fine to [...]...

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 Monday, June 14, 2010 by drome   The Queens Museum of Art has had a working relationship with PS 811Q, a special education school in Little Neck, Queens, for 15 years.  About four years ago, the ArtAccess program started an annual six week artist residency for students at PS 811Q with museum educator, Melanie Adsit.  As part of the program, Adsit met with five different [...]...

Published on Wednesday, May 19, 2010 by Michelle López The ArtAccess program has been a staple at the Queens Museum of Art for many years.  ArtAccess works with the community to provide classes held by full-time professionals trained in Creative Art Therapy for visitors with special needs.  The program helps to allow these visitors to enjoy personal connections to works of art.  The Autism [...]...

Published on Wednesday, May 19, 2010 by Lauren Project Overview Since 1997, PS 144 and QMA have partnered to create systematic, team-driven, and arts-based interdisciplinary educational programming–first with support from the Center for Arts Education’s Annenberg Initiative and subsequently by the New York State Council on the Arts.  QMA’s resources, including artist educators, exhibitions, and exhibiti...

Published on Monday, May 17, 2010 by jose New New Yorkers If one key to community engagement is partnerships, then seeking to work with the Queens Library is a must in our borough. It is one of the largest urban library systems in the world, and has created 66 branches that meet a wide range of needs ranging from providing research tools and entertainment [...]...