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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 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 Wednesday, August 11, 2010 by Lindsay Smilow By Ayanna Smith and Katherine Sabal Today, for the first time this summer, I assisted museum educator Rivka Karasik with a workshop full of excited kindergarteners from the 82nd Street Academics Camp in Jackson Heights.  When they arrived, the students first took a brief look at the Tiffany lamps before moving into the studio to do [...]...