A Message from Cody Ann Herrmann, one of our artists!

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Dear friends,
My two-person show A Way of Learning from Everything, with Patrice Robinson, is up at Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning through December 15, 2020. The gallery is only open on select Saturdays from 12-5PM. I will be at the gallery on Saturday November 21, December 5, and December 12. You can RSVP for your socially distanced time slot here. All visitors are required to have their temperature taken and fill out a contact tracing form upon entry.
A Way of Learning From Everything
October 29 – December 15, 2020 | Gallery Hours: Select Saturdays 12 – 5PM
The Miller Gallery at Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning
161 – 4 Jamaica Ave, Jamaica, NY 11432
If you can’t make it in person, you can view the show online on the JCAL website. Additionally you can RSVP for the artist talk later today, Wednesday November 18, 2020 from 7 to 8PM, or watch it after it airs on YouTube with this link.
My work in the show relates to various aspects of the Special Flushing Waterfront District (SFWD), an up-zoning plan along the Flushing waterfront, currently going through the ULURP process. Has your City Council Member vocalized their stance on the SFWD? Use this chart to find out– then call your City Council member to demand they vote ‘NO’ on the Special Flushing Waterfront District.
Best,
Cody Herrmann

SPQ’s Chloë Bass @ The New York Times, Art Show in St. Nicholas Park

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This Way to Chloë Bass’s Outdoor Art Show

By Brian Boucher. The New York Times.

Sept. 1, 2020

The artist’s exhibition in St. Nicholas Park, mounted by the Studio Museum in Harlem, revolves around questions like: “How much of life is coping?”

Credit…Scott Rudd

One of the billboards in “Wayfinding,” whose themes of caring and attention are particularly relevant during the pandemic.

Dear New Yorker, are you elated that museums have reopened but find yourself a bit queasy about being indoors with hundreds of other art lovers? There’s a very fine museum exhibition you can see now, in the flesh but outdoors.

The Studio Museum in Harlem, with construction of its new building in progress, was already organizing off-site exhibitions before the pandemic. And one of them, the New York artist Chloë Bass’s show, “Wayfinding,” remains on view at St. Nicholas Park through Sept. 27. With themes of caring and attention, it has become only more meaningful. And it is the first solo museum exhibition for the artist.

“Wayfinding” revolves around three questions: “How much of care is patience? How much of life is coping? How much of love is attention?” Three billboards, positioned throughout the park, pose these queries, in gray type on mirrored surfaces. They reflect the park and the surrounding city, and can thus almost disappear. The texts can be hard to see — as such questions can be hard to answer.

“I was creating at a monumental scale at a moment when monuments are seen as an imposition, or really haven’t aged well,” Ms. Bass said by phone. “I don’t live in Harlem, and I didn’t want to make something incorrect. Something that reflects your landscape as it’s changing offers a gentle interpretation of what the monument can mean.”

Wayfinding refers to architectural and graphic features that allow people to situate themselves — like signage in large government buildings or hospitals, for example. Ms. Bass’s signs along walkways bear reflective text on matte silver backgrounds. By repeating and varying wording, Ms. Bass explores various intimacies, some ominous. One reads, “There are times when I have agreed with you only in order to go to sleep.” Another: “There are times when I have agreed with you only in order to stay alive.”

Credit…Scott Rudd

“Something that reflects your landscape as it’s changing offers a gentle interpretation of what the monument can mean,” the artist Chloë Bass said of her work. 

The artist found herself interested in the ways urban dwellers orient themselves, especially when she learned that gentrifying urban environments can leave aging residents disoriented. A dryly funny 30-minute audio guide, accessible by a phone number given on a didactic panel, offers no specific guidance on moving through the park, but can be “emotionally orienting,” said the artist.

How can we help you lead a better, more fulfilling life at home during the pandemic?Ms. Bass started out studying the life of the individual, then expanded to investigate pairs. Writing in The New York Times in 2018, Will Heinrich described her multimedia gallery installation “Book of Everyday Instruction” as having an “elegant, unbalancing poetry.” She plans to expand to the level of the metropolis. With an urban park in a diverse neighborhood, she is partway there.

Life goes on around the art. One recent day, women took an exercise class; families cavorted on the playground; parks employees mowed the grass. One of them — trimming around the posts of the sign “How much of love is attention?” — appeared through his precise work to illustrate the text itself. He smiled at that notion and said, of his caretaking, “I was born in Harlem. I love to do it.

Credit…Box Burners, PBS Episode on Wayfinding in Harlem

Aiden J. Baptiste-Boissiere, a chef from Washington, D.C., who was visiting the park, said, “It gives you reason to pause and think and apply it to your life.”

“Some people forget kindness,” he added. “People close off. Be kinder to people.”

St. Nicholas Park, St. Nicholas Avenue (between 128th and 141st Streets), Manhattan; through Sept. 27; studiomuseum.org.

Link to NYT article: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/01/arts/design/chloe-bass-studio-museum-in-harlem.html?searchResultPosition=1

A version of this article appears in print on Sept. 2, 2020, Section C, Page 4 of the New York edition with the headline: An Outdoor Exhibition That Nearly Disappears. Order Reprints | Today’s Paper | Subscribe

Upcoming Events: Fall 2019

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SPQ Alumni Floor Grootenhuis and Naomi Kuo will be presenting their work at Civic Art Lab: Inhabiting + Closing the Loop from October 11th through the 13th at Chinatown Soup (16 Orchard St., New York, NY).

Civic Art Lab features three days of free workshops, talks, convenings, and creative projects exploring this year’s theme: “inhabiting + closing the loop,” to include contributions from circular economics, sustainability, food science, biology, permaculture, design, wellness, and much more. The Lab is a place where disparate disciplines live and play together in public, where we are all learners, and where expertise is distributed. Check out and RSVP to the full list of events here.

Friday Oct 11th 3:30-5:00 pm and Sunday Oct 13th 3-4:30 pm: Floor Grootenhuis and microbiologist Kelly Eckenrode will be facilitating a collective piece called The Microbiome // mapping our collective fabric. This is a 2-part workshop; participants are encouraged to attend both sessions.

Friday Oct 11th 5:00-8:00 pm: Art & Design Exhibition and Performance. Naomi Kuo will be exhibiting her mixed media work that up-cycles and reflects on the material culture of the Asian American community in Flushing, Queens. Join her and the other artists in the group show in celebrating the opening of the exhibition! Drinks and light food will be served at the cafe in the back of the gallery.

Civic Art Lab was co-founded by Jeff Kasper and Laura Scherling.

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On Saturday October 19th at 5pm Julian Phillips and Floor Grootenhuis will be performing Blood Piece as part of IN|BETWEEN @New York Live Arts on 219 W 19th Street, New York, NY 10011.
Tickets for this can be reserved here:

About IN|BETWEEN:

In | Between is a group showcase co-curated by Yanira Castro and Martita Abril that assembles artists from the New York Foundation for the Art’s Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program. In this showcase, alumni of the Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program are gathering to share ideas on Live Arts stage. With the goal of reflecting on the multiplicity of their experiences, identities, practices, politics, these artists also speak to what holds them in common: the experience of displacement and disorientation and the work of communicating/finding/forming community. The artists in the showcase include Júlia Brandão, Floor Grootenhuis and Julian Louis Phillips, Robert Ó Shea, Lyto Triantafyllidou and Tina Wang.

Full listing: https://newyorklivearts.org/event/in-between/

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JCAL Where-In

Where-In: 2019 ARTWorks, Inc., Two Fellow Artist-in-Residence Show

Artist Reception: Thu Oct. 24 6:00 – 9:00 pm @ Jamaica Art Center, Miller Gallery (161-4 Jamaica Avenue, Queens, NY 11432)

On view Oct. 10 – Nov. 9

Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning (JCAL) presents the work of Ifeatuanya (Ify) Chiejina and Julian Louis Phillips, two resident fellows who have participated in the FY19 ARTWorks, Inc., a professional development artist residency & seminar series. The exhibition culminates their creative endeavors and celebrates the work that they have created during their artist-in-residence at JCAL. Julian Phillips is an SPQ Alumnus.

Join the artists for a reception on October 24th! RSVP here.

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Zine Workshop Poster La Placita

La Placita Collage Zine Workshop: What do you eat that feels like home?

Sunday, October 27th 1-3PM

Lowery Plaza (40th street under the 7 train in Sunnyside)

Current SPQ student, Cristina Ferrigno will be leading a zine workshop for folks of all ages. Using local takeout menus with photos of Latinx food participants will make a collaged zine thinking about the connection to food, family, home and place.

More information on the Facebook event.

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Congratulations, Pedro Fliipe Vintimilla (SPQ Alum) on a solo exhibition, LINES . COLOR . TEXTURE at Norwalk Community College in Connecticut! The show features a series of 32 photographic portraits printed on silk, of Ecuadorian men during the Ecuadorian Day Parade (August 6, 2017, in Queens-NY), and the Parade of Morlaquía (November 3, 2018, in Cuenca-Ecuador).  On view until October 24th.

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Congratulations, also to Prof. Chloe Bass on her new installation – Wayfinding @ The Studio Museum in Harlem!

The Studio Museum in Harlem presents Chloë Bass: Wayfinding, the conceptual artist’s first institutional solo exhibition. This monumental commission features twenty-four site-specific sculptures that gesture toward the structural and visual vernacular of public wayfinding signage. The exhibition begins with and revolves around three central questions, poetically penned by the artist and featured throughout the park in billboard form: How much of care is patience? How much of life is coping? How much of love is attention?

Through a combination of text and archival images, Bass’s sculptures activate an eloquent exploration of language, both visual and written, encouraging moments of private reflection in public space. St. Nicholas Park is located along St. Nicholas Avenue between 128th and 141st Streets. Enter at 135th Street to view Chloë Bass: Wayfinding. For wheelchair access, please use the 132nd Street entrance.

On view for one year until September 2020.

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One last shout out to alumni Setare Arashloo and Barry Cline, and their group the Workers Art Coalition, for their new installation in the Socrates Annual 2019 at the Socrates Sculpture Park:

Muscle Memory
Galvanized electrical conduit, outdoor electrical boxes, compression connectors, QR code.

‘Muscle Memory’ is a spiral sculpture of joined electrical conduit produced by the Workers Art Coalition (WAC), a group of construction workers and artists who bring representations and creative expressions of blue-collar workers into public culture. Composed through a series of workshops held at the Park, the work’s “distributed authorship” highlights the collaborative process while reversing the typical invisibility of the fabricator in contemporary art production. A sound element involving IBEW Local 3 union electricians will be added during the exhibition’s run.

Upcoming Events: December 2018

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Gregory Sholette and Social Practice Queens

December 4, 6:30-8:30 PM

School of Visual Arts, Room 101C

133/141 West 21st Street, New York, NY

SVA MFA Fine Arts presents a talk by artist Gregory Sholette who will speak on his personal art practice, followed by an introduction to Social Practice Queens. This event is free and open to the public.

http://www.sva.edu/events/events-exhibitions/gregory-sholette-and-social-practice-queens-2018

 GULF activists inside Guggenheim Museum. NYC protesting labor conditions in Abu Dhabi.

The Book of Everyday Instruction Monograph Launch Party

December 11th, 6:30 – 8 PM

CUE Art Foundation, 137 W. 25th Street, New York, NY

A book launch party for Chloë Bass’ new monograph, The Book of Everyday Instruction. This event is co-hosted by CUE Art Foundation, and publisher The Operating System.

For more information visit the CUE Art Foundation website or the Facebook event.

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Opening Reception for Conversations with Harriet and Frederick: Stories Told, Journeys Unfold

December 13, 5-7pm

Walls-Ortiz Gallery and Center

2230 Frederick Douglass Blvd, New York, NY 11026

The WOGC presents a group show centered around Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass’s legacies of caring and advocating for the thriving of all people in community. Current SPQ student Naomi Kuo will be showing her recent work Common Thread,  project made in collaboration with Queens Memory and Flushing community members. The exhibition runs December 13 – February 28.

RSVP on the Facebook event or Eventbrite

 

Greg Sholette & the late Tim Rollins – An interview from 1996

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Greg Sholette reflects back on the life and work of late artist Tim Rollins and shares this interview he conducted with Rollins in 1996:

“Make Not Take,” Tim Rollins speaking on Group Material, democracy, Da Zi Baos, public art,  and critical theory in a 1996 interview with G. Sholette

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What follows is a partial transcription of an interview I made with Tim Rollins on March 27th, 1996. Our discussion pivoted on Group Materials’s 1982 guerrilla art project at Union Square entitled Da Zi Baos (big character posters), but our conversation also meandered into such topics as the relationship between artistic form and political content, theory and practice as well as the general cultural and intellectual atmosphere of early 1980s New York City. Just a few months ago (on December 22, 2018) Tim died at the age of 62.

Knowing him since my arrival in New York in the late 1970s, but also being almost his same age and of similar political and artistic outlook, his death was a personal loss for me, just as it was a loss for the cultural community at large. This interview that was sitting on my hard-drive for years is full of Tim’s energy and insights. It has moments of humor, as well as abrasion and irony, qualities that always went hand-in-hand with the man. Never published, this conversation was used as research for my 2010 book Dark Matter: Art and Politics in the Age of Enterprise Culture about which Tim once told me at our Christmas dinner in Inwood NYC: “its going to be a slow-burn.” That comment was very “Tim.” It also seems like a hundred years ago now.

Read more here.

Let’s Keep in Touch: Carmen Papalia & Whitney Mashburn | November 12

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Let’s Keep in Touch
Youth Workshop with Carmen Papalia and Whitney Mashburn

Nov 12 2017
12:30pm–3:30pm

What could you learn about a piece of art if you were allowed to walk right up to it and touch it?

Find out at Let’s Keep in Touch and discover the world that opens up when you close your eyes! Join artist and disability activist Carmen Papalia, curator Whitney Mashburn, and the students of Social Practice Queens for a workshop that will change the way you look at art in the museum.

You will learn how to use the different parts of the hand to identify tactile detail and interpret different textures found in nature, sculpture, and the city. Participants are asked to bring a few personal items of varying sizes – like mementos, keepsakes, or toys – that
they enjoy holding and which the group can take turns examining with eyes closed. If you are interested, please contribute a small personal item as part of the workshop to be included in a presentation at the CUE Art Foundation in February of 2018. Organizers will arrange the return of your items once the show comes to a close.

Workshop is free, but please RSVP: socialpracticequeens@gmail.com or visit the Queens
Museum website. www.queensmuseum.org

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Carmen Papalia is a Vancouver, British Columbia based social practice artist who makes participatory projects on the topic of access as it relates to public space, the Art institution and visual culture. His work has been featured as part of exhibitions and programming at: The Whitney Museum of American Art, the L.A Craft and Folk Art Museum, the Grand Central Art Center, the Canter Fitzgerald Gallery at Haverford College, the Portland Art Museum, the Columbus Museum of Art and the Vancouver Art Gallery. Papalia holds a Bachelor of Arts from Simon Fraser University in Vancouver and a Master of Fine Arts from Portland State University. He has lectured on his work at the University of Sunderland (UK), the California College of the Arts, Portland State University, the Pacific Northwest College of Art, the University of Michigan, York University, and at Emily Carr University. His recent writings can be found in Stay Solid: A Radical Handbook for Youth (AK Press, 2013); Reference Points: Temporary Services (Publication Studio, 2013); and in the “Museum Experience and Blindness” issue of Disability Studies Quarterly.

Whitney Mashburn is a Boston-based curator. She holds an M.A. in Critical and Curatorial Studies from the University of Louisville’s Hite Art Institute, an M.A. in Disability Studies and Counselor Education, and a B.A. in History of Art and Studio Art from Vanderbilt University. She has interned at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts as a curatorial research assistant, is a nationally certified rehabilitation counselor (CRC), and has worked both in disability services offices and as a researcher and editor in art history in Vanderbilt’s Special Collections and Archives and in their History of Art department. Her current research investigates tactile aesthetics, accessibility, and the role of conversation in social practice and institutional critique.

Let’s Keep in Touch was organized by Jeff Kasper (2017 Public Programs Fellow, CUE Art Foundation) and Social Practice Queens (SPQ) as part of Access/Points a new series of public programs on disability and the arts organized by CUE Art Foundation. SPQ is supported in part by Queens College CUNY, The Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation, Queens Museum, and Vilcek Foundation.

Image: Carmen Papalia. The Touchy Subject , 2013. Perceptual tour,
dimensions variable. Photo courtesy Filip Wolak.

 

A Reflection of Resistance | Nov. 14

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Social Practice Queens:

A Reflection of Resistance

Join Us for a Performance and Conversation around what this year has been, for Resistance, Art, and Communities.

November 14th, 7pm – 9th

Queens Museum

Studio #9

New York City Building, Corona, NY 11368

rsvp: socialpracticequeens@gmail.com

SPQ featured by Vilcek Foundation

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“Social Practice Queens Brings Art to the People”

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2017 SPQ Action Art student-led community art projects and scholarships for foreign born, international, and recent immigrant student have been generously provided by the Vilcek Foundaiton. Check out more on their profile on SPQ and recent student projects here.

 

 

Beacon of Pluralism at Fall Unity Walk

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2017 Fall Unity Walk
Sunday, October 15th 1-5pm

The Beacon of Pluralism project led by SPQ / QC MFA alumni Gina Minielli and Nancy Bruno will be exhibited at the Free Synagogue after Saturday October 8th to celebrate its 100 years during Open House New York. The Free Synagogue will be the starting point of the Fall Unity Walk on October 15.

Upcoming: Photographs from the first Beacon of Pluralism event in January 2017 are to be housed and exhibited at the Flushing Quaker Meeting House. Stay tuned for more information.

Presence is Required | Thesis catalog by Alix Camacho

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‘Presence is Required’ | A SPQ Thesis catalog by Alix Camacho

Presence is Required includes diagrams, instructions, objects, and situations created by Alix Camacho. The exhibition investigates forms and dynamics produced by bodies in the same physical space. Focusing on elements such as time, balance, height, and body proximity, the artist presents a series of reflections about different types of social assemblies. This show aims to work as a space for participants experiencing and reflecting about their physical interactions with other people and the elements conditioning those interactions.

View it here.

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‘Building Shared Identities’ at Queens Museum | June 25th

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Join Social Practice Queens (SPQ) Sunday, June 25th from 1-4:30 at Queens Museum for a collection of 5 public events, performances and workshops from current MFA students and recent graduates! Take a look below for the line up!

Queens Museum
New York City Building
Flushing Meadows Corona Park
Queens, NY 11368

To register for Collective ExplorAction please contact: nung-hsin@queensmuseum.org

Support for these projects provided generously by The Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation, Vilcek Foundation, Queens College CUNY, and Queens Museum.
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Schedule of Events:

heart2heart
Floor Grootenhuis
Time: 2-4:30 pm
Throughout the museum, Unisphere Gallery Windows

heart2heart, 2017 is an invitation to investigate the gestures we perform naturally when we seek connection. How do we present our bodies to each other to create a space for our differences, express our empathy and mirror our affect? The performance consists of exchanges of gestures in one-to-one conversations with the public. As they are collected by the artist, the gestures will be redrawn on the windows of the Unisphere Gallery forming a temporary archive of connection. 

Patches for a Safe Community
Paula Frisch
Duration: 1:00-4:30pm
Unisphere Gallery
Participants unlimited, all ages

The artist will be facilitating a hands-on activity focused on making patches—like the kind someone would attach to a backpack or jacket. This activity stems from her ongoing project titled A Quilt for Now, which includes a patchwork quilt comprised of text responses to surveys. The questions at the core of this project are: What makes you feel safe? What makes you feel threatened? How do these things impact the everyday decisions you make? The patch making activity will explore these questions, with a particular focus on safety. Participants will be prompted to think about what makes them feel safe and to create a personalized patch that speaks to that. Each will receive a blank square patch and access to fabric scraps, glue and fabric markers to create their motif of safety. They may choose to keep their work or contribute it to be sewn into the quilt.

Flushing Meadows-Corona Park’s Sunday Menu
Pedro Vintimilla

12-4:30pm
Unisphere Gallery
Participants unlimited, all agesThe artist will be walking around the park between 12:00-2:00pm. He will be inviting families throughout the park to participate in Sunday Menu by coloring a paper plate with the names of the food they will be preparing that day. From 3:00-4:30 the plates will be exhibited at the Unisphere Gallery showcasing the many recipes enjoyed by our neighbors, encouraging the public to try new foods at home from a variety of cultures found here in Queens.

Collective ExplorAction
Alix Camacho and Jiemin Yang
Time: 2-4:30 pm
Unisphere Gallery
RSVP required

Email: nung-hsin@queensmuseum.org to RSVP
This is an exploratory and collaborative workshop created to encourage people to use different games to communicate and work together to accomplish a common goal. The workshop involves ideas coming from choreography, theater, and community organization. (Comfortable clothing is highly recommended.)
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You Don’t Know
Uno Nam
Location: Triangle Gallery
Duration: 2:00pm, 3:00pm

You Don’t Know is a sound and visual performance. In this work, Uno Nam considers how collective events reach individuals through personal experiences, provoking the possibility for art to enable encounters with these intimate moments. Through sound and visual devices, the approximately ten minute long performance recreates an immigrant’s experience of the January 2017 Executive Order 13769, titled: ‘Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States.’ The performance will amplify the impact of the executive order on the individual, attempting to translate the experience of one to a collective event.

1963 March on Washington

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Scene involving some Queens College students from 1963 March on Washington. The march was documented by James Blue and restored by the US National Archives. The *entire film can be seen on the US National Archives Youtube Channel

Queens College Ranked Second (Nationally) In “Bang for Buck”

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From a recent New York Times article:

Looking out over the quadrangle before him as students dashed from one class to the next, James Muyskens was feeling proud one recent afternoon, and why not?

The college he had led for the past 11 years had just been awarded second place in a new ranking of American higher education — ahead of flagship state universities, ahead of elite liberal arts colleges, even ahead of all eight Ivy League universities.

The college is Queens College, a part of the City University of New York with an annual tuition of $5,730, and a view of the Long Island Expressway.

Catering to working-class students, more than half of whom were born in other countries, Queens does not typically find itself at the top of national rankings. Then again, this was not a typical ranking. It was a list of colleges that offer the “best bang for the buck.”

Continue reading on nytimes.com: Lists That Rank Colleges’ Value Are on the Rise.

 

Shannon Jackson Visits SPQ

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Photo by Tom Finkelpearl

SPQ Faculty Greg Sholette Showing at the Queens Museum

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Greg Sholette: Fifteen Islands for Robert Moses

On view through May 20, 2012 at the Queens Museum of Art

The other Saadiyat Island as imagined by Hana Shams Ahmed, One of fifteen islands fabricated by Greg Sholette based on ideas proposed by invited collaborators, Mixed media (paper, sand, plastic, wire, resin), 2012
The other Saadiyat Island as imagined by Hana Shams Ahmed, One of fifteen islands fabricated by Greg Sholette based on ideas proposed by invited collaborators, Mixed media (paper, sand, plastic, wire, resin), 2012

 

Fifteen Islands for Robert Moses is a site-specific art infiltration into the Panorama of the City of New York, which was built for the 1964 World’s Fair by urban planner Robert Moses and is now a centerpiece of the Queens Museum of Art. Artist and theorist Greg Sholette made and placed new islands about the Panorama’s waterways, where they exist as silent, post-9/11 observers of the City’s past, present, and future. Modeled in the same style as the Panorama, each island represents Sholette’s interpretation of a question he posed to a group of other artists and art theorists: “If you could add an island to New York City, what would that new landmass be like?” Touching on issues from environmental and economic justice to the overflowing archives of human memory and immigrant’s rights, the new fantasy islands interrupt the familiar geography of the Panorama, subtly haunting a favorite destination for students, tourists, and urban planners. Surrounding the Panorama is a series of posters about the project’s participating collaborators: Hana Shams Ahmed, Brett Bloom, Larry Bogad, Marc Fischer,Aaron Gach/Center for Tactical Magic, Libertad Guerra, Dara Greenwald, Marisa Jahn, Karl Lorac/Themm!, Ann Messner,Ted Purves, Rasha Salti, Dread Scott and Jenny Polak,Jeffrey Skoller, and Nato Thompson. Special thanks go to Matthew F. Greco for graphic assistance.

Fifteen Islands for Robert Moses is supported in part by the Lily Auchincloss Foundation, and The Greenwall Foundation. Additional support provided by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and New York State Council on the Arts.