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 the past few months.

Phillips will be performing new work entitled, “1518 + 101 (not enough),” which challenges the perennial romanticization of the idea of the “First” given to a demographic. He will be also showing video work that is part of an expansive and unfolding new body of work.

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Talk by Gregory Sholette on art as social action

March 14, 1:30PM

Kresge Gallery, Ramapo College, New Jersey

A public lecture as part of an exhibition entitled “!!!PUBLIC ART??? INQUIRIES, ENCOUNTERS” which also features some of Sholette’s recent drawings.

 

“THIS IS A FILM 1.6” at Columbia College

March 20, 6PM

Hokin Lecture Hall, 623 S. Wabash, Room 109, Columbia College, Chicago, Illinois

Public lecture performance by Chloë Bass for Columbia College’s Art Now! lecture series in Chicago.

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Chloë Bass, Obligation To Others Holds Me In My Place (Dalmatian Narrative), 201

 

“This Is A Film 1.7” at Colgate University

March 28, 4:30PM

Colgate University, Golden Auditorium, 13 Oak Drive, Hamilton, NY, 13346 ©Colgate University

Public lecture performance by Chloë Bass. This Is A Film is part of Bass’ ongoing project “Obligation To Others Holds Me In My Place,” a study of intimacy at the scale of the immediate family. The event is part of the annual Eric J Ryan Distinguished Lecture, which honors Colgate’s colleague Eric J Ryan and his interdisciplinary work across studio, art history and archaeology.

 

Guest Professor at the Geneva University of Art and Design

April 15, All Day

Geneva University of Art and Design, Geneva, Switzerland

Gregory Sholette will lead several seminars about socially engaged and activist art for the MA program.

 

Art As Social Action Book Launch at The 8th Floor, May 11th

Art as Social Action: An Introduction to the Principles and Practices
of Teaching Social Practice Art
Book Launch with Social Practice Queens
Friday, May 11, 2018
6-8pm
*RSVP has reached its capacity for this event.  
If you’d like to be placed on the waitlist, please email media@sdrubin.org.  

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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, including Pedro Lasch, Sheryl Oring, and Daniel Tucker, will be present to facilitate discussion about social practice methodologies.

City of Gods – Book Talk with R. Scott Hanson

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Join Social Practice Queens (SPQ) in welcoming R. Scott Hanson to Queens College October 17th, 6:30-8pm. He will be talking about his research on Religious Diversity and Tolerance in Flushing, Queens.

Event co-organized with “Beacon of Pluralism” a collaborative community project led by SPQ/QC MFA Alumni, Gina Minielli Gunkel and Nancy Bruno. Event supported by The Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation and Vilcek Foundation.

Co-sponsored by The Dean of Social Sciences, the QC Art Department, and QC Urban Studies Department. Refreshments provided by office of the Dean of Social Sciences.

 

Artist Talks: New Media Art and Social Practice | Sept 23

Artist Talks: New Media Art and Social Practice

September 23 at 8:30 am – 5:30 pm

Lefrak Concert Hall
65-30 Kissena Boulevard
Queens, NY 11367

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HG Contemporary Art Center has organized a symposium on New Media and Social Practice in art, featuring artist-professors from Queens College and beyond. Registration is free and includes lectures from the featured artists and a panel discussion. Visit the Symposium Page for more information and a full schedule of events. Registration for the event can be found at this link!

HG Contemporary Art Center, together with the Art Department of Queens College, The City University of New York will be holding an academic symposium with an initiative committed to exploring the ways in which new media artists can initiate projects that engage community participants to foster new forms of public engagement. The theme of the symposium is titled 【New Media Arts and Social Practice】.

The speakers were selected based on their in-depth review of their contributions within the field of socially engaged art, as well as their ability to positively connect with members of the public as collaborators and/or co-creators. These artists / scholars are currently undertaking several projects, respectively, that are socially engaged and are rooted from the various issues observed in their respective communities.

The New Media Arts Symposium will present the following speakers:

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Professor Gregory Sholette, Ph.D, artist and professor of Queens College, The City University of New York.

PANEL SPEAKERS

Professor Chloe Bass, MFA, artist and public practioner, assistant professor, Queens College, The City University of New York;

Professor Jonah Bucker-Cohen, Ph.D., artist and assistant professor, Lehman College, The City University of New York; and

Professor Bo Zheng, Ph.D., artist and assistant professor, School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong.

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Intersectionality, Art & Activism Panel Discussion | Tuesday 28th March, 6 – 8 pm

Intersectionality, Art & Activism Panel Discussion
Tuesday 28th March, 6 – 8 pm
Klapper Gallery, Klapper Hall 4th Fl
Queens College CUNY

Special guests: 
 . Daisy Bulgarin (Semillas Collective Co-founder)
 . Fernanda Espinosa (People´s Collective Arts Member)
 . Amin Husain (G.U.L.F., MTL, NYC Solidarity with
   Palestina Co-founder and Gulf Labor Coalition Member)
 . Kerbie Joseph (ANSWER Coalition and Party for
   Socialism & Liberation Organizer)
 . Zelene Pineda Suchilt (Political Organizer, Artist Activist & Storyteller)
 . Charlie Urichima (Kichwa Hatari Co-founder and NICE
   organizer)
 . Lino Wampusrik (NYC Shuar Organization President)
   Organized & Moderated by Alejandro Salgado Cendales (MFA ’17)
   Sponsored by Social Practice Queens (SPQ)
   with support by The Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation
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Protecting Our Nature and Our Sacred Land – Exhibit Closes March 4th

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Don’t miss ‘Protecting Our Nature and Our Sacred Land: Images of Oak Flat by Standing Fox & Social Practice Queens MFA candidates Floor Grootenhuis, Erin Turner and Uno Nam at the Queens Museum.

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‘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 located outside of Superior, Arizona in a part of Tonto National Forest and has been protected since 1955 by President Dwight D. Eisenhower. This area of land is sacred to the San Carlos Apache, and contains more than 2,400 acres of land, wildlife, petroglyphs, sacred spaces, water resources, and lying beneath the surface, a copper deposit thought to be the largest in the hemisphere. Through a controversial land-swap presented in an unrelated 2015 National Defense Bill by John McCain, this land-swap would allow Resolution Copper (a joint venture by Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton) to develop a block cave mine which as perceived would create a 2-mile wide crater.

Convening at Mierle Laderman Ukeles’ Peace Table, Social Practice Queens invites Mr. Wendlser Nosie Sr. (pictured above), former chairman of the San Carlos Apache Reservation, and Standing Fox, Apache Stronghold member, Bedonkohe Apache photographer and artist to lead a conversation about the current situation at Oak Flat including the repeal of the Defense Bill, the protection of sacred spaces, mining contamination in important riparian habitats, and the importance of environmental stewardship.

We are incredibly honored to have this conversation in Queens to support the San Carlos Apache tribe’s vision in “creating environments that ensure the greatest opportunity to succeed, and to become self-sufficient for Indigenous and all communities.”

This conversation will be accompanied by photography and video by Standing Fox, and current SPQ MFA candidates Floor Grootenhuis, and Erin Turner.

The event has been generously supported by Queens College CUNY, Queens Museum and the Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation.

Further Resources:

Apache Stronghold Website

Petition to save Oak Flat

 

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 student gallery, I was stunned by the variety of available media at the facility, including a woodshop and a bronze-casting studio. Material Archive (April 2016) aims to present the viewer with diversity in materiality while also offering an investigation of the notion of the artwork as a vessel of personal, historical and cultural memory.

Read more on ArtReport.

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 and precisely defined concepts to a parallel universe without giving up the symbolic potential of art. They are concerned with relating the artist’s way of thinking and working with the development of projects in the social and environmental realm. Since 1991 Ala Plástica has developed a range of non-conventional artworks, focused on local and regional problems, and in close contact and collaboration with other artists, scientists and environmental groups. Ala Plástica works bio-regionally, within Argentina, as well as internationally in relationship to other transformative arts practitioners.

The lecture by Alejandro Meitin, co-founder of the collective, explores a number of critical transdisciplinary initiatives carried out by Ala Plástica that in their very constitution and process of development integrate an artistic way of thinking and working related to art and the environment in the Rio de la Plata Basin and internationally. These initiatives comprise communicative strategies and actions connected to social contexts that sharply contrast with modernist ideologies of art’s neutrality. The initiatives not only operate amidst the art world’s discursive assumptions, institutional contexts, and publics but also engage with the discourses of both art and activism, opening up possibilities for aesthetics to transcend its disciplinary confines and operative orbits.

These references would help participants understand how artists can constructively engage with community-based economies involving craft work, subsistence farming, forestry and many other activities which today can benefit from specialized knowledge and innovative techniques. The lecture would seek to transmit a holistic approach to the challenges and struggles of a constantly changing world, in such a way that participants can recognize their own opportunities and responsibilities.

The lecture will conclude with a short field methods workshop in which participants will walk to the Flushing River and collect visual and sonic data on their phones which will be collaged together as a group project.

Free, RSVP required to preddy@queensmuseum.org

Please note this event will have simultaneous interpretation for Spanish and English speakers.

About Alejandro Meitin:

Artist, lawyer and founding member of the art collective Ala Plastica (1991 – Current) based in the city of La Plata, Argentina. Additionally, Alejandro Meitin has participated in the research, development and implementation of many collaborative art practices, working with residents, youth, farmers, artists, activists, architects, landscape architects, local authorities and pollution control experts. He has collaborated with regional, national and making proposals on international rivers and water resources systems and conducted exhibitions, teaching, residencies, publications, given lectures and conferences in Latin America, North America and Europe.

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Ala Plástica, es una organización artístico-ambiental que desarrolla su actividad principalmente en el área del Estuario del Río de la Plata (Argentina). Desde 1991, Ala Plástica ha llevado a cabo una serie de iniciativas artísticas no convencionales a escala bioregional. Sus miembros y colaboradores provienen de saberes diversos, cambiando la conformación del colectivo según los proyectos desarrollados. Éstos reúnen una trama compleja de intervenciones que articulan al mismo tiempo ecología, sostenibilidad, trabajos en red, producción de conocimiento, recuperación de economías locales y entramados sociales, partiendo de modelos de expansión rizomática e investigación participativa.

En su presentación Alejandro Meitin, co-fundador del colectivo, explorará una serie de iniciativas transdisciplinarias de urbanismo crítico llevadas adelante por Ala Plástica las que en su propia constitución y proceso de desarrollo integran la manera artística de pensamiento y acción a partir de la relacion entre arte y medio ambiente en el área de la cuenca del Río de la Plata e internacionalmente. Estas iniciativas comprenden estrategias dialógicas y acciones relacionadas con los contextos sociales que contrastan con las ideologías modernistas de neutralidad del arte ya que no sólo operan entre los contextos institucionales y públicos propios del mundo del arte, sino que vinculan críticamente arte y activismo, abriendo la posibilidad para que la estética trascienda sus límites disciplinarios y ámbitos operativos.

Estas referencias ayudaran a los participantes a entender cómo los artistas pueden comprometerse críticamente en los ámbitos de la producción económicay también cómo pueden participar de manera constructiva en economías basadas en la comunidad que implican trabajo artesanal, agricultura urbana, silvicultura y muchas otras actividades que hoy en día pueden beneficiarse de los conocimientos especializados y técnicas innovadoras. La presentación tratará de transmitir un enfoque holístico de los desafíos y las luchas de un mundo en constante cambio, de tal manera que los participantes puedan reconocer sus propias oportunidades y responsabilidades.

Sobre Alejandro Meitin:

Artista, abogado, y miembro fundador del colectivo artístico ambiental Ala Plástica (1991 – hasta el presente) con base en la ciudad de La Plata, Argentina. Ha participado en la investigación, elaboración y ejecución de prácticas artísticas colaborativas, trabajando en conjunto con pobladores, productores rurales, artistas, activistas, arquitectos, paisajistas, autoridades locales y expertos en control de contaminación, colaborando con entidades regionales, nacionales e internacionales a partir de propuestas bioregionales sobre ríos, sistemas y recursos acuáticos y ha realizado exhibiciones, residencias, publicaciones, dictado cursos y conferencias, en América Latina, Norte América y Europa.

Nonfiction Workshop with Performer L.M. Bogad | Sept. 24th

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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 an author, performer, and the founding Director of the Center for Tactical Performance, based in Berkeley, California. Bogad writes, performs, and strategizes with mischievous artists such as the Yes Men, Agit-Pop, and La Pocha Nostra. He is a veteran of the Lincoln Center Theatre Director’s Laboratory, and a co-founder of the Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army.

Participants must bring nonfictional texts they want to work with in performance–ideally archival government texts, but others would do.  Bring more than one document on the same topic, perhaps from different perspectives.

This is a practical performance workshop class, emphasizing the creation of original performances based on non-fictional texts.  These can range from government documents, newspaper articles, historical primary sources, eyewitness accounts, lists of chemical ingredients, instructional manuals, etc.  Students should choose a subject matter that ignites their passion/anger/sense of humor.

New Books by L.M. Bogad:

Tactical Performance: The Theory and Practice of Serious Play

Electoral Guerrilla Theatre: Radical Ridicule and Social Movements 

Cointelshow: A Patriot Act (a darkly satirical play about Cointelpro)

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 Architecture Program, the NYC PerCent for Art Program, the Cambridge Arts Council, the MTA Arts for Transit Program, the New York City Board of Education and the San Francisco Arts Commission. She is a 2016 A Blade of Grass Fellow for Socially-Engaged Art. About her process Arai says “Through the use of family stories, shared memories, and archival photographs, I construct pages of ‘living history’ that reflect the layered and complex narratives that give meaning to the places we live in.” Learn more about the artist here: http://tomiearai.com

Event sponsored by Professor Mitchell.
Stay-tuned for a recording of the lecture.

 

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.

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Queens College shuttle bus
Directions to the Queens College campus

About Dread Scott
Dread Scott is an interdisciplinary artist whose work is exhibited across the US and internationally. For three decades he has made work that encourages viewers to re-examine cohering norms of American society. In 1989, the entire US Senate denounced and outlawed one of his artworks and President Bush declared it “disgraceful” because of its use of the American flag. His art has been exhibited/performed at MoMA/PS1, Pori Art Museum (Finland), BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music) and galleries and street corners across the country. He is a recipient of grants form Creative Capital Foundation and the Pollock Krasner Foundation and his work is included in the collection of the Whitney Museum.

About Social Practice Queens
Social Practice Queens (SPQ) is a unique MFA concentration bringing together the resources of an academic research institution, Queens College (City University of New York: CUNY), with the long-standing community-based activism of the Queens Museum. The new MFA concentration in social practice integrates studio work with social, tactical, interventionist and cooperative forms. SPQ’s goal is to initiate interdisciplinary projects with real world outcomes rooted in CUNY’s rigorous departmental offerings (e.g.: urban studies, environmental science, public policy, experimental pedagogy, social theory) in tandem with the Queens Museum’s ongoing community-based activities.

About Open A.I.R. Artist Services Program
Open A.I.R. draws on the Queens Museum’s resources, staff expertise, and networks to provide workshops and lectures that help artists grow their practice, advance their career, and develop sustainable lives as artists. Given the Museum’s commitment to socially-engaged art that crosses sectors, as well as attention to its role in neighboring communities, Open A.I.R. works to expand the notion of who is an artist and, moreover, utilizes a holistic view of how to support their potential to thrive and contribute to the cultural landscape of Queens and New York City more broadly. Tailored to artists in Queens, Brooklyn, Staten Island and the Bronx, Open A.I.R. prioritizes the needs of artists of color, queer artists, and immigrant artists, facilitating conversations where art meets activism, and organizing experiences that bring together artists and non-artists.

Open A.I.R. is made possible by a generous grant from The Scherman Foundation’s Katharine S. and Axel G. Rosin Fund. Additional support provided by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

Image: On the Impossibility of Freedom in a Country Founded on Slavery and Genocide, Performance still 1, 2014. Pigment print, 22 x 30 in. Project produced by More Art.  © Dread Scott. (Photo: Mark Von Holden Photography. © Dread Scott)

Questions? Email sespinoza@queensmuseum.org

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 Histories (Radical Aesthetics Radical Art series, Bloomsbury) analyses how contemporary artists have adopted experimental methods for memorialising recent refugee flows spanning Cuba–America, Middle-East–Australia and Africa–Europe.

Her current research examines contemporary art at the intersection of social practice, public art and institutional critique in the work of artists such as Tania Bruguera, Ahmet Ögüt, Renzo Martens and Jonas Staal. It traces the development of experimenal social institutions led by these artists in diverse regions including the Congo, Syria, Germany and the US amidst global crises including conflict, refugee flows and the uneven distribution of capital.

Veronica’s work has been widely published in national and international journals, most recently in Third Text, Afterall and Contemporaneity. Other publications include essays in Phaidon’s Vitamin D2 and Vitamin P2 monographs, as well as catalogue essays for numerous Australian artists in the areas of performance art, video art, photography and installation

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 the pedagogical practices of art teaching both local and globally.

Tanex’s work with “La Agencia” includes pedagogical interventions such as workshops of contemporary art or deschooling courses for high school students. In 2012, he received a State award for a project called Historia reciente del Arte en Aguascalientes. The work consisted in the creation of an archive containing information about the recent history of the visual arts in the city.

Check out his work here:

http://agenciaorg.blogspot.mx/p/portafilio.html

http://archivocolectivo.blogspot.mx/

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.

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Queens College shuttle bus
Directions to the Queens College campus

About Caroline Woolard

Caroline Woolard is an artist and organizer whose interdisciplinary work facilitates social imagination at the intersection of art, urbanism, architecture, and political economy. After co-founding and co-directing resource sharing networks OurGoods.org and TradeSchool.coop from 2008-2014, Woolard is now focused on her work with BFAMFAPhD.com to raise awareness about the impact of rent, debt, and precarity on culture and on the NYC Real Estate Investment Cooperative to create and support truly affordable commercial space for cultural resilience and economic justice in New York City.

Caroline Woolard’s work has been supported by MoMA, the Rockefeller Cultural Innovation Fund, Eyebeam, the MacDowell Colony, unemployment benefits, the curiosity of strangers, and many collaborators. Recent group exhibitions include: Crossing Brooklyn, The Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY; Maker Biennial, The Museum of Art and Design, New York, NY; and Artist as Social Agent, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH. Woolard’s work will be featured in Art21’s New York Close Up documentary series over the next three years. Woolard is a lecturer at the School of Visual Arts and the New School, is an Artist in Residence at the Queens Museum of Art, and was just named the 2015 Arts and Social Justice Fellow at the Judson Church.

About Social Practice Queens
Social Practice Queens (SPQ) is a unique MFA concentration bringing together the resources of an academic research institution, Queens College (City University of New York: CUNY), with the long-standing community-based activism of the Queens Museum. The new MFA concentration in social practice integrates studio work with social, tactical, interventionist and cooperative forms. SPQ’s goal is to initiate interdisciplinary projects with real world outcomes rooted in CUNY’s rigorous departmental offerings (e.g.: urban studies, environmental science, public policy, experimental pedagogy, social theory) in tandem with the Queens Museum’s ongoing community-based activities.

About Open A.I.R. Artist Services Program
Open A.I.R. draws on the Queens Museum’s resources, staff expertise, and networks to provide workshops and lectures that help artists grow their practice, advance their career, and develop sustainable lives as artists. Given the Museum’s commitment to socially-engaged art that crosses sectors, as well as attention to its role in neighboring communities, Open A.I.R. works to expand the notion of who is an artist and, moreover, utilizes a holistic view of how to support their potential to thrive and contribute to the cultural landscape of Queens and New York City more broadly. Tailored to artists in Queens, Brooklyn, Staten Island and the Bronx, Open A.I.R. prioritizes the needs of artists of color, queer artists, and immigrant artists, facilitating conversations where art meets activism, and organizing experiences that bring together artists and non-artists. These goals are addressed through the following vehicles:

Open A.I.R. is made possible by a generous grant from The Scherman Foundation’s Katharine S. and Axel G. Rosin Fund. Additional support provided by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

Image: Caroline Woolard by Avia Moore

Questions? Email sespinoza@queensmuseum.org

Mariam Ghani speaking at Queens College

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.

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More about Mariam Ghani

http://www.kabul-reconstructions.net/mariam/#Index

Talk with Multidisciplinary Artist Gregory Sale —-Oct 14, 4:30–6:00pm—–In Partnership with Queens Museum’s Open A.I.R. Artist Services Program

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 a presentation and discussion of his work.

About Gregory Sale

Gregory Sale is a multidisciplinary artist with a socially engaged art practice. Currently he is producing two bodies of work. One gives voice to the multiple constituencies of incarceration and criminal justice systems through engendering civility and discourse around complex issues without easy answers. The other, quieter initiative takes on love and language by flirting with the fluid parameters of public and private, prose and poem.

It’s not just black and white, 2011, at ASU Art Museum in Tempe, AZ unfolded during a three-month residency exhibition. With support from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, it considered the cultural, social and personal issues at stake in the day-to-day workings of the criminal justice system in Arizona. As a next multi-year investigation, Sleepover grapples with the challenges of individuals reentering society after periods of incarceration. Now in research and development, Sleepover (supported by a 2013 Creative Capital grant in Emerging Fields and a 2014 Art Matters grant) will bring together key stakeholder constituents for extended periods of time to reconsider their understandings of re-entry and their relationships to one another.

In summer 2012, as a resident artist at Yaddo in Saratoga Springs, NY, and at VCCA in Amherst, VA, Sale initiated Love for Love, a socially engaged project created in collaboration with eight organizations and 120 community participants in Chapel Hill, NC. The project was commission for More Love: Art, Politics and Sharing since the 1990s at the Ackland Art Museum, UNC-Chapel Hill in 2013 and traveled to Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville, TN in 2013-2014.

Sale is Assistant Professor of Intermedia and Public Practice at Arizona State University in Tempe, AZ. Before that he served as the Visual Arts Director for Arizona Commission on the Arts, the Curator of Education at ASU Art Museum, and as a public art project manager for the Phoenix Office of Arts and Culture.

About Social Practice Queens

Social Practice Queens (SPQ) is a unique MFA concentration bringing together the resources of an academic research institution, Queens College (City University of New York: CUNY), with the long-standing community-based activism of the Queens Museum.

The new MFA concentration in social practice integrates studio work with social, tactical, interventionist and cooperative forms. SPQ’s goal is to initiate interdisciplinary projects with real world outcomes rooted in CUNY’s rigorous departmental offerings (e.g.: urban studies, environmental science, public policy, experimental pedagogy, social theory) in tandem with the Queens Museum’s ongoing community-based activities.

About Open A.I.R. Artist Services Program

The expanded Queens Museum features a new, expanded slate of artist services, including a brand new Studio Program, with professional development features and a networking Lecture Series that draws on human resources at the Queens Museum. Open A.I.R. programs will offer professional development topics targeted specifically to all interested emerging artists.

Open A.I.R. is made possible by a generous grant from The Scherman Foundation’s Katharine S. and Axel G. Rosin Fund. Additional support provided by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

Questions? Email sjmo@queensmuseum.org