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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 [...]...

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Published on Sunday, April 3, 2011 by mcanela Ya dimos el primer paso en el Consejo de Estudiantes de NNY Program.  Nuestro equipo esta muy orgulloso de tener en sus manos este importante proyecto. Juntos haremos el mejor trabajo que somos capaces de hacer, con la mayor calidad posible, Gracias a todas las personas relacionadas con este maravilloso proyecto, en especial Jose Rodriguez [...]...

Published on Thursday, March 17, 2011 by jose On March 6th, we had an opening for Korean born video artist Sunghwan Kim. On that occasion, we decided to hold an Idea Salon for new media Artists. We had small meeting at the archive center. In that meeting, Tom Finkelpearl, executive director of QMA, and Hitomi Iwasaki, Director of Exhibitions, mentioned that this Salon [...]...

Published on Wednesday, February 16, 2011 by Jose Serrano-McClain On February 6, 2010, Chilean writer Pia Barros led a creative writing workshop at the Queens Museum of Art. Twelve community members participated in the free workshop, which was conducted entirely in Spanish.   You can see one of those community members, Rocio Venegas, in the video above reading the story she workshoped. I had the pleasure [...]...

Published on Tuesday, January 11, 2011 by Michelle López In November of 2010,  The Queens Library and the Queens Museum of Art celebrated the photographs captured by the six families participating in “A View from My Lens,” a photography class for children with an Autism Spectrum Disorder. This bilingual class, providing Spanish language supports, was a family program in which siblings and parents took an [...]...

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 Wednesday, August 11, 2010 by jose This past May, Lauren Brandt Schloss (Director of the QMA Education Department) and Jose Rodriguez(Manager of New New Yorkers Programs) had the opportunity to present on a panel at this year’s Association of American Museums Conference discussing Museum and Library Partnerships.  They presented their work, experiences, and insight in working with the Queens Public ...

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 [...]...