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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 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 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 Tuesday, April 6, 2010 by jose On Sunday, April 4 three different classes celebrated another successful run of New New Yorkers courses. The classes were: Web Design in Spanish, taught by Sandra Dávila Students: Alicia Lenzano, Ana Rojas, Beatriz Hernandez, Carlos Caiza, Carmen Vazquez, Diana Perdomo, Gabriel Flores, Gabriel Gonzalez, Jose López, Josefina Norma Soto, Leonardo Orellana, Letty ...