SPQ MFA Student UNO offers workshop at Queens Library!

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This winter, artists UNO (MFA 18) and Cheon Pyo Lee staged an interactive yet personal project on the experience of having a broken heart. The workshop series was titled, Broken Hearts: The Words We Say, The Pictures We See. Participants were invited to describe and draw their story of heartbreak while exploring how memories are shaped through words, physical gestures ,and art. The program was open to adults and older adults.

Queens Library Location:
Fresh Meadows Library 193-20 Horace Harding Expressway
BrokenHearts_Uno

Cody Herrmann to Present at Pratt | March 24th

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8TH ANNUAL SUSTAINABILITY CRASH COURSE, MARCH 24TH

SUSTAINABILITY CRASH COURSE 2018
Pratt Center for Sustainable Design Strategies

On Saturday, March 24, 2018, Pratt’s CSDS will host the 8th annual Sustainability Crash Course, a day-long series of presentations, panel discussions and workshops with a host of experts from Pratt’s faculty and elsewhere.  In years past we have had over 20 different speakers present topics including Ecology, Biomimicry, Packaging Design, Life-Cycle Assessment, Fashion, Architecture, Policy and Environmental Activism. This year we have an entirely new line up of exciting and inspiring presenters. As in the past, the event is free and open to the Pratt Community as well as the general public, but registration is required. View the eventbrite page.

FEATURED PRESENTATION

Up Sh*t’s Creek: Creative Approaches to Organizing in Flushing, Queens

Cody Ann Herrmann – Artist and Grassroots Organizer

Drawing from participatory design and socially engaged art practices, artist and organizer Cody Ann Herrmann asks– how might ecological issues be communicated to the public? Using NYC’s Flushing Creek as a case, the artist’s ongoing series of workshops, tours, performances, and onsite interventions are explored to understand effective methods for documenting and sharing information about pollution and land-use issues impacting the dynamic waterway.

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Cody Ann Herrmann is a New York City based artist and community organizer with an interest in participatory design methods, public space, and local sustainable development. Through multidisciplinary arts, community engagement exercises, and urban design practices she applies an iterative, human centered approach to ecological problem solving. Cody’s work explores the relationships between land-use, urban infrastructure, and environmental degradation with a focus on communicating the problems and solutions of environmental issues to the populations they directly impact. Working in her hometown of Flushing, Queens, Cody started an ongoing series of multidisciplinary work in 2015 addressing pollution and development in and around Flushing Bay and Creek. Cody is currently studying to receive an MFA from Social Practice Queens at CUNY Queens College.

http://www.codyannherrmann.com/

Art As Social Action Book Launch — May 11

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Friday, May 11, 6-8pm
The 8th Floor, 17 West 17th Street, NYC
Art as Social Action: An Introduction to the Principles and Practices of Teaching Social Practice Art
Book Launch with Social Practice Queens
 
The Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation will host a book launch for Art as Social Action: An Introduction to the Principles and Practices of Teaching Social Practice Art, edited by Gregory Sholette and Chloë Bass of Social Practice Queens (a 2018 Rubin Foundation grantee). Art as Social Action is both a general introduction to, and an illustrated, practical textbook for the field of social practice, an art medium that has been gaining popularity in the public sphere. With content arranged thematically around such topics as direct action, alternative organizing, urban imaginaries, anti-bias work, and collective learning, among others, Art as Social Action is a comprehensive manual for educators on how to teach art as social practice. Several of the book’s contributors will be present to discuss their work in social practice.
About The 8th Floor
The 8th Floor is an exhibition and events space established in 2010 by Shelley and Donald Rubin, dedicated to promoting cultural and philanthropic initiatives, and to expanding artistic and cultural accessibility in New York City. The 8th Floor is located at 17 West 17th Street and is free and open to the public. Schools groups are encouraged. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 11am to 6pm. the8thfloor.org
 
About The Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation
The Foundation believes in art as a cornerstone of cohesive, resilient communities and greater participation in civic life. In its mission to make art available to the broader public, in particular to underserved communities, the Foundation provides direct support to, and facilitates partnerships between, cultural organizations and advocates of social justice across the public and private sectors. Through grantmaking, the Foundation supports cross-disciplinary work connecting art with social justice via experimental collaborations, as well as extending cultural resources to organizations and areas of New York City in need. www.sdrubin.org
Join the conversation with the Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation on Facebook   (The Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation), Twitter (@rubinfoundation), and Instagram (@rubinfoundation) with the hashtags #The8thFloor, #RubinFoundation, and #ArtandSocialJustice.