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Published on Tuesday, May 17, 2011 by Michelle López By Belinda Smith & Michelle López The Queens Museum of Art and Queens Library collaborated to create an art making program to introduce students with autism to chapter books.  In my work with children with autism, chapter books can be challenging for new and emerging readers.  Students with autism tend to be visual learners and can [...]...

Published on Tuesday, May 10, 2011 by Michelle López By: Belinda Smith, ArtAccess Intern Photos submitted by: Aliya Hussein  On April 17th 2011,  the Queens Museum of Art hosted a wonderful culminating art show, in partnership with the Queens Library. The event showcased different art pieces that the students’ made in conjunction with the programs being held at the library. As many of the families affected by A...

Published on Friday, April 1, 2011 by Lindsay Smilow   Third graders all over New York City are studying world communities and cultures. For PS 175 in Rego Park, the study of world cultures was illuminated by an art residency taught by QMA teaching artist Emily Rivlin-Nadler in collaboration is PS 175’s 3rd grade classroom teachers. The students in this residency learned about specific countries (particular to eac...

Published on Tuesday, March 8, 2011 by Michelle López  An aspect of our Autism Initiatives, is to create a training program to help educators and librarians gain the skills to engage children with an Autism Spectrum Disorder.  When considering training for Autism, information about the behavioral, sensory, social, cognitive and emotional needs can feel overwhelming.  Autism is a complicated spectrum disorder. Sympt...

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 Monday, January 24, 2011 by Michelle López The Queens Musem of Art and the Queens Library are partnering to create programs for families with children that have an Autism Spectrum Disorder.  It is very exciting to develop programs for our Autism Initiatives.  I am in the process of collaborating with teaching artists and art therapists for new programsstarting now, in March, at [...]...

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 Monday, January 10, 2011 by Michelle López VSA is an affiliate of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. VSA  is an international, nonprofit organization founded in 1974 by Ambassador Jean Kennedy Smith to create a society where all people with disabilities learn through, participate in and enjoy the arts. One of the most imaginative programs of VSA New York City [...]...

Published on Sunday, November 7, 2010 by jose The latest installment of RadioLab dealt with the theme of “cities as organisms.” Among the three chapters they produced was one dealing with the NYC Watershed system and its history. The podcast of that chapter is below: http://newnewyorkers.org/assets/radiolab100810b.mp3 You can also listen to the whole episode here: http://www.radiolab.org/2010/oct/08/....

Published on Wednesday, August 25, 2010 by Michelle López  ”But, of course, only in my eyes..”        Queens Teen, Tracy L. reflects on her experience in working with a child with autism in our family program, “A Trip Around the World on the 7 Train.” Free Family Programs were offered at the Queens Library with Autism & Spanish Language Supports this summer through our ArtAccess Autism Ini...