Here are a few images of the collaborative work of SPQ students and alumns Seth Aylmer, Gina Minielli, and Scott Braun, from the March 21, 2015 opening reception for the Queens Museum’s studio program. The trio have collaborated to create a non-denominational, communally-occupied sacred space in the “triangle area” of the Queens Museum. With […]
Artist Mariam Ghani speaking at Queens College on November 18 about her work. The event was sponsored by the QC MFA and Social Practice Queens with support from the Dean of Humanities. More about Mariam Ghani http://www.kabul-reconstructions.net/mariam/#Index
Time: Oct 14, 4:30–6:00pm Location: Queens College, Klapper Hall, Fine Arts Department Room 672 on the 6th floor. Campus map:http://www.qc.cuny.edu/about/directions/2d/Pages/default.aspx QC shuttle bus: http://www.qc.cuny.edu/about/directions/Pages/Shuttle.aspx And a link to directions to the QC campus:http://www.qc.cuny.edu/about/directions/Pages/default.aspx 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 multidisciplinary artist Gregory Sale for […]
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
The thesis exhibition commenced with a dinner party for the MFA class in the gallery. Then there was some time to discuss the work (topics included money symbology, community forms, the nature of social practice, etc.) Photographs by Steven Harris.
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 […]
The SPQ studio will be open to the public on the weekend of November 9-11, coinciding with the grand re-opening celebrations of the Queens Museum. The SPQ Studio will feature the current SPQ Projects, and will be open along with with the studios of the inaugural artists in the Queens Museum’s studio program: JUAN BETANCURTH, ONYEDIKA […]
PROJECT LUZ: the classroom, Art for all. by Sol Aramendi October 7th – 18th 10am-7pm Opening; October 15th 5-8 pm Klapper Hall Gallery, Queen College (see directions below) Sol Aramendi presents for her MFA Social Practice Thesis show, Project Luz: The Classroom Art for All. A series of classes and workshops for the College’s members of the […]
Photo by Tom Finkelpearl
SPQ graduate students Barrie Cline and Sol Aramendi, founder of Project Luz, and their collaborators, are observing Workers Memorial Day this coming Sunday by launching a publication at Corona Plaza as part of a larger community health fair coordinated by the Queens Museum. The publication was the result of a series of dialogues that brought together union […]
Shared Spaces CUNY Queens College MFA Exhibition 2013 Opening Saturday March 23, 6–9pm March 23 – April 3, 2012 Hours: Tue – Sat, 11:30am – 6pm, or by appointment Pablo Alvarez Sol Aramendi Seth Aylmer Barrie Cline Annemarie Coffey Chris Esposito Christie Farriella Kristie Hirten Marthe Keller Henry Kielmanowicz Thea Lanzisero Lauren Nickou […]
Barrie Cline, SPQ MFA student, organized this panel discussion on a topic that has recently captured the attention of the artists and art institutions: Art and Labor. When: 7-8:30pm Thursday, January 31 Where: No Longer Empty / Long Island City Clocktower 29-27 41st Avenue, Queens Subway: Queens Plaza M, E, and R. Queensboro Plaza N, Q, and 7 Website / Facebook […]
Maureen Connor, SPQ faculty member, is part of a panel that looks to answer, maybe, a very interesting question: Does It Need to Be Called Art? Tuesday, January 29, 2013 @ 7pm SVA Theatre 333 West 23rd Street Tel: 212-592-2980 SVATheatre@sva.edu Free and open to the public. When art is made or used as a tool […]
SPQ faculty member Greg Sholette has shared with us excerpts of his just-published compilation of essays, co-edited with Oliver Ressler, It’s the Political Economy, Stupid: The Global Financial Crisis in Art and Theory. The publication is accompanied by an exhibition at the Pori Art Museum in Finland, opening February 1. The title of the book and the […]
Over the weekend of January 12 and 13, DSGN AGNC (led by Quillian Riano) took to Corona Plaza to carry out their ‘Diagram and Research Action’, which looks to identify issues and hidden urban conflicts affecting the community of Corona, and by extension, Corona Plaza. Here are some lovely photos by Quillian of the action […]
This past weekend, SPQ MFA students participated in a QMA-led event at Corona Plaza with the objective of gathering donated materials for fellow New Yorkers in the Rockaways neighborhood of Queens. The event was a resounding success in terms of the amount of community partners that joined the cause and the contributions by community members. […]
This article originally appeared in the Queens Chronicle website: link Esther and Alberto Olivera dance the bolero in Corona Plaza on Oct. 21. Cleaned-up plaza offers cultural programs by David Noriega, Chronicle Contributor Sounds of bolero music filled Corona Plaza on Oct. 22 as members of nearby senior centers danced in the sun. Throughout […]
On On September 8, 2012, architect Quilian Riano (DSGN AGNC) and city planner Aurash Khawarzad (Change Administration) led a structured conversation that began at Immigrant Movement International and ended at Corona Plaza. Almost twenty community members and a few SPQ students participated in the conversation, which had the goal of providing Quillian and Aurash a […]
Check out this really exciting video and blog excerpt on Corona Plaza by Streetfilms, which have the mission of “documenting livable streets worldwide”. Something special is happening in Corona, Queens. Last week, Streetfilms visited Corona Plaza — the city’s newest car-free space, next to the 103rd Street stop on the 7 train — and found […]
On August 26, QMA led a community festival to celebrate the opening of the newly pedestrianized Corona Plaza. A number of local organizations came together with an afternoon of music, dance, science, and civic action. Here are some images from the event:
And here are some other photos, by Neshi Galindo of the construction process:
Over the last few weeks, students have been developing an interactive model of Corona Plaza alongside Aurash and Quillian that we will be using to engage the community in workshops at Immigrant Movement International, and at the plaza itself.
Last week we had a visit from the head of the Bedi-Makky Art Foundry in Brooklyn, to give us a consultation on the dormant kiln at Queens College. The Bedi-Makky Art Foundry is famous for making the Charging Bull on Wall Street and the Iwo Jima memorial in DC. They are heavyweights who know […]
This article was originally published by The City Atlas: New York. Poised at the forefront of important contemporary social movements, community activism, tactical urbanism, and participatory art production, a nascent collaboration develops between a cultural institution, a public university, local artists, urban planners, and Queens residents, to creatively solve local urban issues. This past spring City Atlas met […]