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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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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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.