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
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
”Diversity”: an artistic “Intervention” and Friday prayer: Photo Rana Chakraborty
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
A selection of participants working in the Open Studio and their artwork.
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
Student Artist Nick, World Breathing, 2011, Passages Academy
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
PS 99, The CASA Exhibition, 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.
Installation View, BFF's: A 14-Year Old Friendship with PS 144, 2011
