» Heart of Corona

Published on Tuesday, November 22, 2011 by Jose Serrano-McClain The Queens Museum of Art is proud to present Another Detroit is Happening, an exhibition by Detroit Summer’s LAMP program, in our Partnership Gallery. The story of how this exhibition came to the museum, and why, is an interesting one.   At the moment, QMA’s galleries are full of images of Detroit.  Up until now, it has [...]...

Published on Thursday, August 25, 2011 by Jose Serrano-McClain Rachel Peddersen (bio) is a wonderful New-York based artist that joined us this summer to collaborate on Ghana Think Tank’s project in Corona.   We asked her to sum up her experience in 500 words.   Here’s what she wrote: This summer I joined the Ghana Think Tank as the organization embarked on a new edition [...]...

Published on Tuesday, July 26, 2011 by Jose Serrano-McClain Neighbors: bring out your tables, chairs, and food and enjoy an afternoon together! Every year, the Louis Armstrong House Museum closes 107th Street for our annual Jazzmobile concert. This year, we have requested that the streets close earlier in the day so that neighbors can do more together on that day. We are also collaborating again with [...]...

Published on Thursday, June 23, 2011 by Jose Serrano-McClain Here’s a little something the children made in Corona Plaza this past weekend, as part of the Mask-making workshop led by teaching artist Lia Zuvilivia on behalf of the Queens Museum of Art and for the Dominico-American Society’s Family Festival. VN:F [1.6.3_896]please wait...Rating: 0.0/5 (0 votes cast)...

Published on Wednesday, June 15, 2011 by Jose Serrano-McClain On Sunday, June 5, as part of the third installation of Make A Movement Sundays, Immigrant Movement International invited the Ghana Think Tank to host a special event inviting community members to participate in a live problem-solving session around issues in Corona, Queens. A little background:  the Ghana Think Tank is a collaboration of three US [...]...

Published on Thursday, June 2, 2011 by Jose Serrano-McClain On Saturday, May 21, a group of us gathered to help paint the fences at Corona Plaza for It’s My Park day (a program of Partnership for Parks and the NYC Parks Dept).   A few local organizations were involved: the Dominican American Society, the Drogadictos Anonimos, Corona Community Action Network, the Ecuadorian Civic Committee, [...]...

Published on Thursday, March 24, 2011 by Jose Serrano-McClain IMMIGRANT MOVEMENT INTERNATIONAL is co-presented with Creative Time and is the first project of Corona Studio, an initiative that continues the work of the Heart of Corona coalition through artist-initiated projects in Corona, Queens that reduce the distinction between art and social action. IMMIGRANT MOVEMEMENT INTERNATIONAL is gathering people on April 3 (and every...

Published on Thursday, March 17, 2011 by Jose Serrano-McClain “If Bogad is interested in helping “social movements express themselves and make interventions,” do you think that we can get someone from Make the Road and/or NICE to this event – i.e. giving people involved in community activism access to these tools?”  -Feb  17 email message from Tom Finkelpearl, Executive Director of the Queens Museum [...]...

Published on Wednesday, December 1, 2010 by Jose Serrano-McClain A great event happening in Corona Plaza this weekend.  I’ll be there taking some picture of the tree lighting at 5pm. VN:F [1.6.3_896]please wait...Rating: 0.0/5 (0 votes cast)...

Published on Wednesday, September 29, 2010 by preranareddy El Festival de La Familia is a big street fair that happens in Corona every year. The Dominico-American Society invited the Queens Museum of Art to participate in the fair with an art workshop. Every child that approached the QMA tent was asked the question “Do you know what a dreamcatcher is?” This album is how they [...]...