Partnership Gallery: Art Inspired by The Day of the Dead / Dia de los Muertos.

November 01 &ndash November 15, 2009

The Queens Museum of Art’s New Yorkers Program and Local Project present the Death Collective; 4 different artists and their perspective of Heaven, Purgatory, Hell and Earthly Existence. The resulting collaborative installation results in a contemplation about destiny and choice.
Death Collective is: Miguel Luciano, Carla Torres, Calder Zwicky and Riley Hooker, and the exhibition is curated by Carolina Peñafiel, Director of Local Project.

QMA, in conjunction with the International Day of the Dead Festival in Paris, presents the Visions of Death Photo Expo, an exhibition of the best photos submitted through an open call exploring the theme of mortality.

Selections from “A Book About Death” is an artists’ collaborative project conceived by collage artist Matthew Rose for the Emily Harvey Foundation in New York City where the original exhibition took place from September 10 - 22, 2009. Over 500 artists contributed 500 postcards each created from artworks made especially to create an unbound book about memory and death.

The exhibition has since traveled to the Otis College of Art and Design in LA, and to the Mobius Gallery in Boston, MA, as well as becoming part of the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the LA County Museum of Art Research Library. The Queens Museum is presenting a selection of cards from the exhibition and is asking the public, both with mailed submissions and in an artist-led workshop, to create their own postcard about death and add it to the exhibition.

Click here for more information about the project.

QMA’s Day of the Dead Celebration is supported by the Altman Foundation, Deutsche Bank of the Americas Foundation, TD Bank, MetLife Foundation, J.M. Kaplan Fund, Leveraging Investments in Creativity funded by the Ford Foundation and Verizon. Additional support provided by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and New York State Council on the Arts.

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