Alix Camacho Vargas (MFA ’17) in Afterimage
Check out current SPQ MFA student Alix Camacho Vargas‘ (’17) new article in Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism, here.
Entries by Jeff Kasper
‘Protecting Our Nature and Our Sacred Land at Oak Flat’ at the Peace Table | 01/29
Protecting Our Nature and Our Sacred Land at Oak Flat A Social Practice Queens Discussion at the Peace Table Jan 29 2017 3:30pm–5:00pm You are invited to participate in a pertinent conversation on land, protection and culture, that surround the case of Oak Flat, sacred to San Carlos Apache in Arizona. Oak Flat Campground is […]
A Curator Talks Social Practice at Queens College
Located about an hour outside of the usual New York City art hubs, Queens College has long been renowned for its studio-based Social Practice MFA program with current and former professors including artist Chloë Bass, Vito Acconci, Maureen Connor, and Judith Bernstein. After having been given the opportunity to curate an all-female show in the […]
Queens Residents Remind Trump Where He Comes From
Sunday November 20th, an oversized mailbox was installed in Jackson Heights’ Diversity Plaza, an invitation to Queens residents to send postcards to President-elect Donald Trump. The action, called Letters from Home, was organized by the Center for Artistic Activism as the culmination of its Arts Action Academy at the Queens Museum with SPQ alumni Sol Aramendi and current MFA […]
Launch event of the Jornaler@ App
SPQ alumni Sol Aramendi invites you to the launch event of the Jornaler@ App this coming Monday. This long term project was possible by the collaboration of many people, organizations and agencies. Will be great to have you there. FB invite, Video, Website Now, with the new administration fast approaching, workers across the country are wondering […]
Workshop & Artist Talk: Ala Plastica — ‘Rivers As Quiet Dialogues’
Rivers as “Quiet Dialogues” and Other Environmental Perspectives of Ala Plástica Open A.I.R. Artist Services Talk and Workshop Oct 16 2016 2:00pm–5:00pm —En Español abajo— Ala Plástica is an art and environmental organization based in Río de la Plata, Argentina that works on the rhizomatic linking of ecological, social, and artistic methodology, combining direct interventions […]
Mierle Laderman Ukeles: Maintenance Art Opening Reception
We are incredible excited for the Opening Reception of Mierle Laderman Ukeles: Maintenance Art at Queens Museum. Over the Winter and Spring several SPQ MFA students worked with museum Community Engagement and Curatorial staff on Ukeles’ upcoming programming around questions of the role of artists in city agencies and sustainability, to name a few. Check out […]
Nonfiction Workshop with Performer L.M. Bogad | Sept. 24th
Queens Museum and Social Practice Queens (SPQ) is hosting a free hands-on Nonfiction Performance Workshop with L.M Bogad on Sat., September 24, 2016 from 2:00pm—4:00pm All students, artists, and friends are welcome! Please let me know if you plan on attending by Thursday, September 22nd. Free but RSVP requested to preddy@queensmuseum.org L. M. Bogad is […]
Public Art at Queens College
Check out the new web archive of Queens College public art collection, past and present—including figures like Vito Acconci as well as students and alumni of the university. https://qcpublicart.wordpress.com/ Designed by Jocy Meneses, Queens College Graphic Design Student as part of Sculpture Professor Tyronne Mitchell’s course in Public Art
‘Dining with Vultures’ On View Until May 28th
2016 Queens College MFA exhibition: Dining with Vultures May 15–28, 2016 Gallery open Thu – Sun 12 – 6pm OPENING: Friday, May 20, 6–9pm Sideshow Gallery 319 Bedford Ave Brooklyn, New York qcmfa.com socialpracticequeens.org www.qc.cuny.edu Curated by Sarah Fritchey Queens College MFA in Studio Art, City University of New York (CUNY), is pleased to announce […]
Tomie Arai visits Queens College
The Queens College Department of Art welcomed Tomie Arai for a guest lecture at the Godwin Ternbach Museum Thursday, April 21st, 12 to 2pm. Arai is public artist who lives and works in NYC. She has designed both temporary and permanent public works of art for Creative Time, the US General Services Administration Art in […]
Artist Talk with Dread Scott – March 1st, 5:00-6:30pm
The Queens Museum’s Open A.I.R. Artist Services Program and the Social Practice Queens MFA Concentration at Queens College invite you to join artist Dread Scott for a presentation and discussion of their work. Location: Queens College, Klapper Hall, Fine Arts Department Room 672 on the 6th floor. Campus map Queens College shuttle bus Directions to the […]
SPQ in The New York Times! (FEB. 5, 2016)
Maureen Connor, Professor Emeritus and co-founder of the social practice program at Queens College, was featured in The New York Times, introducing SPQ and the rise of social practice and collaborative art in academic programs: “We try to teach collaboration,” … “Most artists haven’t had the opportunity to work collaboratively, and many of them find […]
Workers Art Coalition travels to Lima Peru for Worker Education Conference
SPQ Alumni Barrie Cline (’14) and the Workers Art Coalition (WAC) traveled to the International Federation of Workers’ Education Associations 22nd General Conference: Solidarity or Precarity? The Role of Workers Education in building the 21st Century global labor movement. They recieved a grant the Van Arsdale Center and presentated on WAC projects to date proposing […]
Sol Aramendi (’14) is Collaborating with Day Laborers to Create a Wage Theft App!
Sol Aramendi, 2015 A Blade of Grass Fellow, and SPQ alumni, is developing a “Wage Theft app” as a result of a joint effort between artists, day laborers, community organizers and lawyers. The Spanish-language platform for Android and iPhones came to be after five sessions in which day laborers gave ideas for a digital resource […]
SPQ Alum José Serrano-McClain Teaching Social Practice at Moore College & NYU
José Serrano-McClain (SPQ ’15) is now an Adjunct Professor at the New York University, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development in the Department of Art and Art Professions teaching a course titled ‘Contemporary Art and Community Partnerships’, one of 3 core courses for the new MA in Art, Education, and Community Practice. In […]
Welcome Dr. Veronica Tello
SPQ is excited to have Dr. Tello visit SPQ this fall! She is the Vice-Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Research Fellow National Institute for Experimental Arts, at UNSW AUSTRALIA. Veronica Tello completed her PhD at the University of Melbourne in 2013. Her research broadly focuses on the intersections of contemporary art and politics. Her forthcoming book Counter-Memorial Aesthetics: Contemporary Art and Refugee […]
Welcome Tanex López!
This November, SPQ welcomes visiting student Tanex López! López is a visual artist and founding member of “La Agencia”: a civil association interested in the connection between contemporary art, education and social practice. He is currently studying a Master Program at Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes, Mexico. His ongoing research examines art educators’ belief system in order to understand […]
Artist Caroline Woolard Visits SPQ – December 8th 5PM
The Queens Museum’s Open A.I.R. Artist Services Program and the Social Practice Queens MFA Concentration at Queens College invite you to join artist Caroline Woolard for a presentation and discussion of their work. Location: Queens College, Klapper Hall, Fine Arts Department Room 672 on the 6th floor. Campus map Queens College shuttle bus Directions to the […]
SPQ’s Greg Sholette at 2015 Creative Time Summit: “The Curriculum NYC”
2015 Creative Time Summit: “The Curriculum NYC” November 14–15, 2015 | Register here Boys and Girls High School 1700 Fulton Street Brooklyn, NY 11213 After two years, the Creative Time Summit—the world’s largest international conference on art and social change—is headed home to New York City! Creative Time Summit: “The Curriculum NYC” will take […]
Gulf Labor, Precarious Workers Rights, and SPQ at The CUNY Graduate Center
Gulf Labor, Precarious Workers Rights, and SPQ at The CUNY Graduate Center Join SPQ and QCMFA’s own Gregory Sholette, Setare Arashloo, and Barrie Cline (’14) for a conversation on Nov 19, 2015, 6:30 pm at the Skylight Room 9100, CUNY Graduate Center,365 Fifth Avenue, New York. Precarious Workers Pageant, Venice Italy 8/7/2015 What does Bertolt […]
Gregory Sholette at UChicago | October 9th
Gregory Sholette: Precarious Workers of the (Art) World Unite! Friday, October 9 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm Cochrane-Woods Art Center, Room 157 5540 South Greenwood Avenue Chicago, IL 60637 Gregory Sholette, artist, writer, activist, and professor of Sculpture and social practice at Queens College, discusses the varied tactics associated with Gulf Labor Coalition as they […]
Imaginary Archive: Zeppelin University Edition | Gregory Sholette with visionary architect Marcel Kalberer in Friedrichshafen, Germany
White Box, Friedrichshafen, Germany September 12 to November 26, 2015 Tues – Thurs, 2 – 5PM Imagine yourself uncovering a cache of materials and documents that record a past whose future never arrived? Imaginary Archive is just such a repository: pamphlets, books, photo-albums, records, blueprints, small objects, whose assorted narratives imagine alternative histories and speculative […]
Precarious Workers Pageant & Gulf Labor
Deconstructing Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim Abu Dhabi The Gulf Labor Pageant & Procession: Aug. 7, Venice, Italy @ Sale Docs Join members of Workers Art Coalition, Aaron Burr Society, Occupy Museums, Social Practice Queens, Sale Docs, G.U.L.F. and Gulf Labor Coalition in a collective performative experiment deconstructing Frank Gerhry’s proposed Guggenheim Museum on Saadiyat Island, Abu […]