Spotlight: Brianna Harlan (she/her/hers/sir)
Early in the semester, current SPQ student Brianna Harlan (she/her/hers/sir) was interviewed virtually. The interview is transcribed below. You can read her bio here. We also want to congratulate
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Spotlight: Isiah Powell-Taylor
Early in the semester, current SPQ student Isiah Powell-Taylor was interviewed virtually. The interview is transcribed below! You can also read Isiah’s bio here
Spotlight: Connor Henderson (he/they)
Early in the semester, current SPQ student Connor Henderson (he/they) was interviewed virtually. The interview is transcribed below! You can also read his bio here.
Spotlight: A Pollicino (they/them)
Early in the semester, current SPQ student A Pollicino (they/them) was interviewed virtually. The interview is transcribed below! Read their bio here.
Announcing: Art as Social Action!
Our exhibition at the Queens Museum, a long-time community partner, celebrates 10 years of SPQ by exhibiting works our alumni created after their graduation. Art as Social Action will open on March 24th and will remain open until July 25th! Our skillful artists are Alix Camacho-Vargas, Barrie Cline, Cody Herrmann, Cristina Ferrigno, Erin Turner, Floor […]
MELLON FOUNDATION SUPPORTS SOCIAL PRACTICE CUNY AT THE GRADUATE CENTER TO CULTIVATE DIVERSE ARTISTS AND LEADERS IN NYC
Court Crier,” 2018 by Julian Louis Phillips, (courtesy of Phillips). Phillips is a graduate of Social Practice Queens (SPQ). An innovative program based at The Graduate Center of The City University of New York aims to create a new generation of cultural leaders in New York City who represent the city’s diverse population and are […]
A Message from Cody Ann Herrmann, one of our artists!
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 […]
SPQ’s Chloë Bass @ The New York Times, Art Show in St. Nicholas Park
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 […]
SPQ @ Queens Museum Winter Open Studios
Queens Museum Winter Open Studios January 19, 2020, 1-4PM Social Practice Queens is participating in the Queens Museum Winter Open Studios! SPQ students Cristina Ferrigno, Brianna Harlan, Adam Nadel and Jamerry Kim will be participating–we invite you to join us for this cohort’s first event together. From the Queens Museum: Join us for Winter Open […]
SPQ Green Lab Report
SPQ’s held its first ever program on Governor’s Island on Saturday October 5th. From 11:30 AM to 5:30 PM, we had back to back workshops based in the Urban Farm and the new covered structure, dubbed “The Lab,” built by a group from Parsons. One current certificate student, two alumni, and a faculty member presented […]
Upcoming Events: Fall 2019
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 […]
SPQ Goes to Governors Island Oct 5th!
Social Practice Queens (SPQ) Green Lab is a one-day art event featuring experimental projects and workshops by CUNY students, alumni, and faculty, rooted in their ongoing research-based creative practices. Hosted in the new Lab at the Urban Farm, these site-specific projects address our multifaceted and often troubled relationship to the environment. They consider our use […]
Upcoming Events: May 2019
Flushing Creek Walking Tour May 4, 3PM Meeting at the boat launch at the East end of Flushing Bay promenade. Join Guardians of Flushing Bay’s Cody Ann Herrmann and Rebecca Pryor for a walking tour of Flushing Creek. The walk takes place in “the valley of ashes,” as referenced in the novel “The Great Gatsby,” […]
Alumnus Solo Show in Dhaka
We’re proud to share news of SPQ alumnus, Zaid Islam (’18), exhibiting his work in a solo show in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The show is titled “I Once Was Colorblind,” and the artist statement reads as follows: When I traveled to New York in 2016, many things in my life were in transition– family, education, career, […]
Upcoming Events: March-April 2019
NARS Foundation Residency Exhibition: The Body Responds by Lying Down Opening Reception March 1, 6-8PM Exhibition on view March 1-22 NARS Foundation 201 46th Street Brooklyn NY 11223 Join SPQ alumnus Julian Phillips (’18) for the opening of “The Body Responds by Lying Down,” an exhibition at NARS Foundation, where he have been in residency for […]
Alumni Profile: Pedro Felipe Vintimilla
For our alumni, Social Practice Queens is just another step in the ongoing process of building a socially engaged art practice. In following their careers after the program, we get to see how they expand from the ideas and connections that they developed during their time at Queens College. Pedro Felipe Vintimilla graduated from the MFA […]
SPQ News
We’re proud to share recent recognition and activity of members of the SPQ community! Below are some highlights. In the Press Current student, Cody Herrmann and her project “How do you get to Flushing Creek,” was featured in Hyperallergic last November: Flushing Creek is so hidden by industrial sites and highways, it’s almost invisible to those […]
Upcoming Events: Jan-Feb 2019
Engaging Artists: New Works in Practice // OPENING Opening Reception Jan 24 | 6-8 PM HEREart / 145 6th Avenue Manhattan Participating Artists: Bryan Rodriguez Cambana, Vanessa Teran Collantes, Workers Art Coalition, Álvaro Franco, Noé Gaytán, Melissa Liu, and SPQ Alumni (’17) Floor Grootenhuis. The exhibition features artists working to inspire social change engage in-depth processes […]
Upcoming Events: December 2018
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 […]
Have We Met: Dialogues on Memory and Desire
A recent exhibit on socially engaged art was on view at Stamps Gallery in the University of Michigan Stamps School of Art and Design (Sept 21-Nov 18 2018). Gregory Sholette was included as one of the artists. Have We Met: Dialogues on Memory and Desire draws inspiration from Ann Arbor’s legacy of social movements (Anti-War Movement, […]
Greg Sholette & the late Tim Rollins – An interview from 1996
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 What follows is a partial transcription of […]
Sept. 25, 2018 – Opening Reception of Moving Walls 25: Another Way Home
SPQ MFA Alumni Sol Aramendi is featured an upcoming exhibition: The Open Society Documentary Photography Project is pleased to invite you to the opening reception of Moving Walls 25: Another Way Home, the 20th anniversary of our Moving Walls exhibition series. Location: Open Society Foundations–New York Event Date: September 25, 2018 Event Time: 6:00–9:00 p.m. […]