The Partnership Gallery

On Long Term View

The Partnership Gallery at the Queens Museum of Art provides opportunities for our cultural and other nonprofit organizational partners to develop and mount exhibitions based on their programs. In addition, the Partnership Gallery regularly showcases the work of students in QMA’s Department of Education.

Please click here to see all past and present Partnership Gallery exhibitions

Crossfire: Photographs by Shahidul Alam

On view April 15 – May 6, 2012

Forum & Opening Reception for Partnership Gallery Exhibition in Collaboration with Drik Picture Library, Dhaka.

Bangladeshi photographer and human rights activist Shahidul Alam’s Crossfire exhibition aims to gather international support for a campaign to end extra-judicial killings in Bangladesh by state forces, usually called “crossfire.”

In 2004, responding to a perceived law and order “crisis” the Bangladesh government created a new, armed enforcement agency, called Rapid Action Battalion (RAB). The agency was formed by taking officers from the Bangladesh Police, Army, Navy and Air Force. Over time, the agency’s budget and power grew until today it is one of the largest and most feared groups inside Bangladesh. From the very early days, RAB became notorious for killing people it was trying to capture, often during gun battles, which the government always claims is due to “crossfire.”

RAB has been the subject of repeated condemnation by international human rights activists, including Human Rights Watch, starting with their 2006 report Judge, Jury, and Executioner: Torture and Extrajudicial Killings by Bangladesh’s Elite Security Force. Activists have also insisted that Bangladesh’s continued participation in UN Peacekeeping Forces be made subject to the government ending the practice of torture and extra-judicial killings by RAB.

Shahidul Alam’s Crossfire project was first shown in Bangladesh in 2010 to draw attention to extra-judicial killings by RAB. The government responded by shutting down the show. Eventually, a court ruled in favor of Alam, and the show was reopened. Now, the Queens Museum of Art is bringing the project to New York for the first time. The project includes photographs that recreate, through metaphoric images, extra-judicial killings by RAB; videos about the controversy over the show; and a live Google map that pinpoints locations for numerous extrajudicial killings.

Crossfire attempts to reach out at an emotional level where a fragment of the story has been used to suggest the whole. According to Shahidul Alam, “My intention was to get under the skin. I walked those cold streets; heard the cries; sat quietly with the family besides a cold corpse. The show is a quiet metaphor for the screaming truth.”

In conjunction with this show, events are planned in Bangladesh, where posters about abuses committed by RAB will be distributed nationwide, informing and educating local people of their rights, through new data and facts.

Port-au-Prince Debout

On view March 21 – April 1, 2012 in the Partnership Gallery

In January, 2012, CIDIHCA (Centre International de Documentation et d’Information Haitienne, Caribéenne et Afro-Canadienne) in cooperation with FOKAL (La Fondation Connaissance et Liberté) organized an exhibition “Port-au-Prince Standing” on the occasion of the second anniversary of the devastating earthquake of January 12th, 2011 which struck the city of Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti. This exhibition documents the development of the city of Port-au-Prince from Independence through the present day through historic illustrations and photos. The exhibit opened simultaneously in the City hall of Montreal and in the FOKAL in Haiti, and is now traveling to the Partnership Gallery of the Queens Museum of Art.

This exhibition is made possible in part by support from The International Center of Documentation and Haitian Caraïbéenne and Afro-Canadian Information (CIDIHCA), FOKAL and the Consortium For Haitian Empowerment.

107 Stories: Through the Eyes of Restaurant Workers

Presented by the Restaurant Opportunities Center (ROC)

February 11 – March 4, 2012

On September 11, 2011, 73 workers lost their lives in Windows on the World, an acclaimed restaurant on the 107th floor of the World Trade Towers. The exhibition title 107 Stories, alludes both to the fact that the restaurant was on the 107th floor, as well as to the 107 restaurant workers who participated in this photographic project. The surviving workers eventually grew into a national movement for restaurant workplace justice, and today the Restaurant Opportunities Center (ROC) has over 9,000 members in 9 cities. For more information, please visit www.rocunited.org

This exhibition was organized with Esther Cohen, ROC’s Cultural Consultant and founder of the Unseenamerica project, and made possible with support from the Nathan Cummings Foundation. The presentation at the Queens Museum of Art is made possible in part by support from the Surdna Foundation, Lambent Foundation Fund of Tides Foundation, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and New York State Council on the Arts.

Another Detroit is Happening

Youth from the Detroit Summer Live Arts Media Project presents an exhibition of their multimedia community murals project.

November 12, 2011 – January 15, 2012

Detroit Summer is multi-racial, inter-generational collective in Detroit that has been working to transform communities through youth leadership, creativity and collective action since 1992. The Live Arts Media Project (LAMP) of Detroit Summer is a youth-led response to Detroit’s drop-out crisis, which uses music, poetry, and visual art to investigate community problems and generate community-based solutions.

The artwork in “Another Detroit is Happening” is the culmination of a 6-month community art-investigation project, which launched in the months leading up to the 12th annual Allied Media Conference and the US Social Forum. In June of 2010, 12 youth set out to uncover the “other” Detroit that exists beneath the surface of dominant media narratives and to tell the stories of Detroiters who have been steadfastly building another world at the grassroots for decades. They used digital audio recorders and still cameras to interview and photograph 12 community organizations throughout the city. During the Allied Media Conference, they worked with muralists from around the country to create collages from their photographs and then transfer those collages onto giant silk screens. During the US Social Forum, they created hundreds of prints and worked with youth organizers from Seattle, Boston, New York and Chicago, as well as with local youth organizations to paint and wheat paste the prints around the city.

The exhibition will provide an opportunity to learn more about the work of Detroit Summer, as well as the work of all the participating organizations in the “Another Detroit is Happening” mural project. These include: the Boggs Center to Nurture Community Leadership, the Food Justice Task Force, the Digital Justice Coalition, Allied Media Projects, the Ruth Ellis Center, Centro Obrero, the Detroit Coalition Against Police Brutality, Nandi’s Knowledge Cafe, the PG Institute, COMPAS, Blue Babies, 5e Gallery, American Indian Health and Family Services, and Yusef Shakur’s Urban Network.

IMMERSION: Artefacting into Dharavi, the Engine that Runs Mumbai

Screening & Discussion: 1 – 3 pm
Exhibition Opening Remarks & Reception: 3 – 5 pm
Exhibition on View: October 15 – November 6

Artefacting Mumbai, a three-month social immersion into Dharavi, Mumbai, Asia’s largest slum, comes in the form of an exhibition. Photography, paintings, video, sculpture and sound demonstrate the artistic and social work of an international art collective comprised of NYC-based visual artist/urbanist Alex White Mazzarella, Portland-based videographer Casey Nolan, Dutch photographer Arne de Knegt, and Bombay filmmakers Nishant Nayak and Parasher Baruah.

Well documented and retold, Artefacting is an art & community festival in Dharavi that brought in more than 500 outsiders into this “slum” to experience and interact with the residents and their homes. Testimony of visitors reveal them as they challenge their very own fears and negative stereotypes, while that of locals explains how they worked with the Artefacting team, and what this invasion of outsiders meant to them.

New material being presented are video interviews of the local team displaced due to a Dharavi demolition. On July 7th 2011, the Bombay Municipal Corporation sent seven bulldozers and 1,000 policemen and officials to Dharavi to demolish approximately 300 homes and businesses, displacing thousands of residents in the heart of the recycling community.

In all 20 paintings, four monitors presenting more than 20 video shorts & segments, a slew of photographs, eviction notices, plastic chips, and a buzzing beehive sculpture “immerse” the viewer in Artefacting Mumbai.

Artefacting is an ongoing initiative that supports marginalized people and places worldwide through artistic interventions, documentation, and artwork that strive to catalyze social cohesion, build community, and break down barriers. Visit www.artefacting.com for more information.

Other Artefacting events:

October 22 , 4 – 6 pm
Artefacting Detroit Presentation &
Interactive Tour of Andrew Moore’s
Detroit Dissembled

October 29-30, 2-8pm
Artefacting Willets Point Offsite Tours

Sanctuary: An ArtAccess Open Studios Exhibition

Opening reception: August 21, 2:30 – 4:30 pm

Join us in celebrating the artwork produced in the ArtAccess Open Studio.

ArtAccess is a unique program of the Queens Museum of Art designed specifically for visitors with special needs. Adults with special needs and their families are welcome to explore self-expression through art in an open studio atmosphere three Sundays a month from 12:00 noon until 2:00pm

The QMA Big Time Summer Art Thing for Kids

Featuring work from young artists participating in the Museum’s summer camp
July 14 – August 16, 2011

This exhibition shows work made by students enrolled in the QMA Big Time Summer Art Thing for Kids.

The QMA Big Time Summer Art Thing for Kids, is a unique camp experience that explores the meaning of art in fun and innovative ways. Part art gym, part creative laboratory, activities are designed to nurture children’s art making skills, while similarly giving them the opportunity to experiment with new forms of creative expression.

For more information, contact Tim Miller, Manager of Family and After School Programs

I Am Somebody Whose Name Is Somebody

June 16 – June 26, 2011
Opening Reception, Thursday June 16th, 2011 4 – 6pm

The Queens Museum of Art’s ArtAccess program presents the fifth student art exhibition between East River Academy and Passages Academy. Please join us in the QMA’s Partnership Gallery for a celebration of this unique exhibition. Enjoy student art work, spoken word, performances, music and refreshments.

ArtAccess is a unique program of the QMA that reaffirms the Museums commitment to making its services accessible to all visitors. East River Academy is a NYC DOE District 79 alternative school, serving incarcerated youth aged 16-21. Passages Academy is a collaboration of the New York City Department of Education, the Department of Juvenile Justice and the Department of Probation.

Support provided by the John H. and Ethel G. Noble Charitable Trust, Barker Welfare Foundation, Michael Tuch Foundation, and Astoria Federal Savings. Additional support provided by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and New York State Council on the Arts.

For further inquiries, please contact Donnielle Rome, Manager of ArtAccess Programs at drome@queensmuseum.org, 718-592-9700 x136.

Young Minds/Big Ideas: The CASA Exhibition

Featuring student work from PS 33, PS 84, PS 99, PS 114, IS 125, and JHS 185.
May 22 – June 5, 2011

This program is supported in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

BFF’s

April 29 – May 16, 2011
Opening Reception with Dinner and Creative Family Fun:
April 28, 2011, 5:30 – 8:00pm

A 14-year old friendship, born in 1997, is officially a BFF…
Yes, PS 144 and QMA have been friends that long!

See new innovative student work inspired by these ongoing and special 2010-2011 QMA exhibitions:
The Relief Map of the NYC Water Supply System
The Panorama of the City of New York
Luis Marquez in the World of Tomorrow
The Neustadt Collection of Tiffany Glass
Sung Hwan Kim: From the Commanding Heights…*

Featuring the fruits of QMA teaching artists and museum educators: Melanie Adsit, Rachel Crumpler, Christina Hoodhoo, Michelle Lopez, Josh Millis, Donnielle Rome and Howard Stern.

As well as those of PS 1444 educators: Lois Olshan, Amy Weiss and the full teaching staff of PS 144.

Special thanks to:
Our new friends from the NYC Department of Environmental Protection Education Department: Kim Estes-Fradis, Min Kan Shih, Lillit Genovesi and John Fisher.
Our funders: NYSCA, the NYCDOE and the PS 144 Parents Association. Additional support from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.
And our great supporters: AP Jennifer Lucadamo, Parent Coordinator Siobhan Kyne and Principal Reva Gluck-Schneider.