» School Residencies

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 Thursday, July 29, 2010 by timmiller         Written By Annelisse Fifi Welcome Earthlings, to Jalapeno Planet!  This spring twenty-four 3rd and 4th graders from PS 84 joined forces with QMA to bring to life an imaginary world through art making. The planet included its own quirky and knowledgeable ambassadors who joined forces and traveled back in time just to be able to welcome you, [...]...

Published on Tuesday, July 27, 2010 by Lindsay Smilow Recently, museum educator Rivka Karasik began working with a group of 6thgraders from MS 217 in Briarwood, Queens.  Together they looked at “The Teri Pakier Collection: Bringing the Outside In,” a collection of posters which includes work by Breugel, Monet, Van Gogh, Louis Comfort Tiffany, Gauguin, and Matisse as well as O’Keeffe, Friedlander and Wyeth.  ...

Published on Monday, June 14, 2010 by Lauren Conceived of by artist Mel Chin, the Fundred Project asks everyone and anyone- students, teachers, artists, parents and celebrities- to make their own Fundred Dollar Bills.  These Fundred Dollar Bills are original, hand-drawn interpretations of the U.S. $100 bill. The goal of the project is to collect over 3,000,000 of these unique artworks. The cumulative [...]...

Published on Monday, May 24, 2010 by Alexandra García The Panamerican International High School is dedicated to students that have been in the United States for three years or less and helps them in the process of adaptation and improving their English. They also have a parallel school for parents in recognition that they also need to adapt to the system of education in [...]...

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...