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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 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 Annie Ferdous is one of the founders of the Bangladesh Institute of the Performing Arts (BIPA) which runs a dance and music school, offers performance and workshops.  The school is in the LIC/Astoria area where there is a large Bangladeshi community.  Ferdous says that classes are affordable for everyone, offered in an intimate setting and [...]...

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 [...]...

Published on Tuesday, July 27, 2010 by jose This past Spring, the New New Yorker’s program offered eight different art classes to adult immigrants.  One of the classes was Basic Photography taught in Mandarin by Yijun Liao.  Here is what Liao had to say about the class, what the students learned and experienced and what it is like to be a part of [...]...

Published on Wednesday, June 23, 2010 by Lauren In a recent interview the Director of the Queens Museum of Art, Tom Finkelpearl shared his thoughts on the Fundred Project and the Museum’s community involvement. Here is what Tom had to say on the origins of the Fundred Project: Tom: Mel Chin is a mad genius of interactive art. I have admired him for years [...]...

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...