Kingsborough Art Museum

09/22/2022

On view through October 19: Reflections 2022: The Annual Art Faculty Exhibition. A recognition and celebration of our Art History, Fine Arts, and Graphic Design faculty, this annual tradition is a must-see!

08/05/2022

Looking to pick up your work from the student show? Please stop by KAM during the last week of August. Many thanks!

07/07/2022

The summer issue of the international art periodical Frieze contains a review by critic Andreas Petrossiants of the Kingsborough Art Museum's UnHomeless NYC exhibition. Curated by Midori Yamamura, Tommy Mintz, Maureen Connor, Jason Leggett, and Rob Robinson marked the return to in-person exhibitions at KAM. Congratulations to the show's curators for this well-earned recognition!

06/25/2022

The Kingsborough Art Museum (KAM) invites you to the Fifth Annual Rarebit Animation Festival, happening again this year in virtual form on Thursday, June 30, starting at 7:00 pm. Curated by Kingsborough Professor and Art Department Chair Tom Eaton, the Rarebit Festival invites current students and alumni from across CUNY to present their own animated shorts.

The Rarebit Animation Festival takes its name from Dream of the Rarebit Fiend, the innovative and often surreal comic strip by one-time Sheepshead Bay resident Winsor McCay (c.1867-1934). Perhaps best known for his popular strip Little Nemo in Slumberland, McCay was a pioneer in the art of animation--his cartoon Gertie the Dinosaur (1914) was one of the very first animated films ever created. The Kingsborough Art Museum is proud to remember the legacy of this important American cartoonist and animator through the Rarebit Animation Festival.

Registration is required for this event. Please click the link below to register.

https://rarebit.commons.gc.cuny.edu

After registering, you will receive information on how and where to join the festival on June 30. The Kingsborough community is also welcome to invite students, potential students, or anyone with an interest in animation to register for the festival.

We hope you join us for this thoroughly entertaining Kingsborough tradition.

05/17/2022

Save the Date! Directions 2022: The Annual Student Art Exhibition, opens June 7, with a reception and annual student awards presentations.

05/17/2022

https://www.asmp.org/newyork/event/member-spotlight-barry-rosenthal-live-from-kingsborough-museum-of-art/

05/17/2022

LIVESTREAMING EVENT! The artist Barry Rosenthal--whose show Convenience & Conveyance closes May 18--will give an Artist Talk and tour of the exhibition on May 18 from 7:00 - 8:30 PM. You don't want to miss this important contemporary photographer discuss his mission to artistically document our insatiable reliance on plastics. REGISTER FOR THIS EVENT:

https://www.asmp.org/newyork/event/member-spotlight-barry-rosenthal-live-from-kingsborough-museum-of-art/

05/05/2022

Barry Rosenthal's Convenience & Conveyance is on view through May 18--

05/02/2022

Attention Kingsborough students: Starting this fall, please consider joining the Art History & Museum Studies Club! Stay tuned for more information on meetings and leadership opportunities.

04/26/2022

Just starting your college experience? Looking for courses? Stop by the college breezeway May 2- May 6 for Registration Week!

04/25/2022

On view now! "Barry Rosenthal: Convenience & Conveyance" explores our insatiable desire for plastic through aesthetically rich photographs and installations. An artist reception will be held on Wednesday, April 27, from 3-5 and 7-9 PM. Hope to see you there! More information on the exhibition can be found on the KAM website, www.kccartmuseum.org.

03/31/2022

NY Bond Photography recently transformed artist Willie Baronet's "Smile - Life Could Be Worse" poster (part of the current UnHomeless NYC exhibition) into a day-long project at Kingsborough Community College that gave everyone a reason to smile--and to think. Thanks to NY Bond Photography for this amazing "outreach" from the gallery to the campus community.

03/26/2022

Due to predicted inclement weather, today's performance event at the Kingsborough Art Museum, "Ignea: An Exchange about Nesting Technologies" by Bibi Calderaro will be rescheduled to a later date. We apologize for any inconvenience. We invite you to visit the exhibition (UnHomeless NYC), on view through April 14, during KAM's hours (Mon-Fri, 10-3).

02/02/2022

This month the Kingsborough Art Museum and the Student Union & Intercultural Center have teamed up to present "Faces of Resilience and Hope: Kingsborough Celebrates African American Artists." The poster exhibition, which lines the display cases outside the college bookstore, features 24 images by notable African American artists from the 19th century to the present. Each image has a QR code that links to biographical information on each artist. We hope you enjoy this exhibit reflecting the rich cultural history of African American painters, sculptors, photographers, and printmakers.

11/04/2021

MoSA: The Museum of Sticker Art [in-person]

MoSA: The Museum of Sticker Art is an installation project conceived and curated by Tommy Mintz. The piece stretches over three walls of KAM--some 108 feet--and is comprised of hundreds of stickers painstakingly removed from NYC streets and carefully catalogued as to their former location on streetlamps, walls, mailboxes, and various public spaces. Like graffiti artists, contemporary sticker artists often use their medium to convey political and social messages; other times they are lampooning cultural figures or timeworn ideas of modernity and urban life. Through this unique installation, Mintz celebrates these street artists by presenting them in a gallery context, while simultaneously creating his own larger, more meta, artwork that addresses issues of authorship, the dichotomy between street art and fine art, and the tropes of art history and museum curation, cataloguing, and presentation. For more information, please visit https://kccartmuseum.org/tommy-mintz%3A-mosa.

On View November 9 through November 24, 2021

Note: Current visiting hours are Tuesdays and Thursdays, 10 am - 3 pm. CUNY COVID-19 protocols in place (face coverings and social distancing).

11/04/2021

Reflections: The Annual Art Faculty Exhibition [Virtual]

This time-honored exhibition celebrates the accomplished artistic and professional endeavors of Kingsborough's Art History, Fine Arts, and Graphic Design & Illustration faculty and staff. While the pandemic made an in-person version of the show problematic, to say the least, the virtual format allowed each faculty and staff member to contribute more than one work, and to add an Artist's Statement and links to their artist websites and faculty bio pages.

https://kccartmuseum.org/reflections

06/19/2021

06/18/2021

Congratulations to our 2021 Graduates, and to all of our students who are striving for excellence under the trying circumstances of the past year and a half. As in 2020, Directions 2021: The Annual Student Art Exhibition is virtual this year. We invite you to visit our online galleries featuring works by our talented Fine Arts and Graphic Design & Illustration students. https://kccartmuseum.org/directions-2021

06/14/2021

The Kingsborough Art Museum (KAM) is pleased to announce that this year's Rarebit Animation Festival will be taking place virtually this Thursday evening, June 17, at 7:00 pm. Curated by Kingsborough Animation professor Tom Eaton, the annual Rarebit Festival showcases short animated films created by students from Kingsborough and across CUNY. The name of the festival is a nod to the cartoonist and animator Winsor McCay, a former resident of Sheepshead Bay and creator of the imaginative comic strips Dream of the Rarebit Fiend and Little Nemo in Slumberland.

Advanced registration is required:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAsce6hqTsjHNa4AvqnlYGkaqT7ajFpwXuO

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

The Rarebit Animation Festival is always an enjoyable evening, and Professor Eaton does a fantastic job of curating and presenting...we hope you join us in celebrating the creative work of KCC and CUNY students.

06/07/2021

Coming soon! Directions 2021: Annual Student Art Exhibition! A virtual showcase of this year's student works in Animation, Art History, Ceramics, Digital Arts, Drawing, Foundation Arts, Graphic Design, Illustration, Painting, Photography, Sculpture, and Typography. Available soon on the KAM website, kccartmuseum.org.

06/05/2021

KAM is pleased to announce that KCC student Shirina Yusupkhujaeva is the latest honoree in our ongoing series, "Student Showcase." Her beautiful and poignant photographs express loss in ways that are both emotionally powerful and visually arresting. https://kccartmuseum.org/student-showcase

Image: Shirina Yusupkhujaeva, "Frozen Fruits," 2021.

04/22/2021

NOTE: The deadline for our "American Eye" Creative Writing Contest has been extended to Sunday, April 25, 2021, by 11:59 PM. All Kingsborough Community College students are eligible to enter. Please see the flyer for submission guidelines.

03/31/2021

March 31: Day 31 of our series "Making Their Mark: A Celebration of Great Women Artists." For this last entry, we look at an artist who was recently rediscovered, the Impressionist painter Mary Rogers Williams (1857-1907). For the entire series, please visit the KAM website, https://kccartmuseum.org/making-their-mark

03/30/2021

March 30: Day 30 of our series "Making Their Mark: A Celebration of Great Women Artists." Today we look at Pamela Colman Smith (1878-1951), a Symbolist artist whose best-known work was for a rather esoteric project. For the entire series, please visit the KAM website, https://kccartmuseum.org/making-their-mark

03/29/2021

March 29: Day 29 of our series "Making Their Mark: A Celebration of Great Women Artists." Today's entry is more speculative in nature: Who was the first American woman photographer? Our featured honoree today is Mary Ann Meade (1826-1902). For the entire series, please visit the KAM website, https://kccartmuseum.org/making-their-mark

03/28/2021

March 28: Day 28 of our series "Making Their Mark: A Celebration of Great Women Artists." Today's entry features Greer Lankton (1958-1996), an artist working in downtown New York during the early 1980s. For the entire series, please visit the KAM website, https://kccartmuseum.org/making-their-mark

03/27/2021

March 27: Day 27 of our series "Making Their Mark: A Celebration of Great Women Artists." Our honoree today is Lucy Telles (c.1870-c.1956), an innovate designer of Native American baskets. For the entire series, please visit the KAM website, https://kccartmuseum.org/making-their-mark

03/26/2021

March 26: Day 26 of our series "Making Their Mark: A Celebration of Great Women Artists." Today we look at Marie-Gabrielle Capet, an 18th-century French portraitist. For the entire series, please visit the KAM website, https://kccartmuseum.org/making-their-mark

03/25/2021

March 25: Day 25 of our series "Making Their Mark: A Celebration of Great Women Artists." Our focus today is on a pioneer industrial designer, Belle Kogan (1902-2000). For the entire series, please visit the KAM website, https://kccartmuseum.org/making-their-mark

03/24/2021

March 24: Day 24 of our series "Making Their Mark: A Celebration of Great Women Artists." Today's episode features the designer/sculptor Maya Lin, who revolutionized modern public monuments. For the entire series, please visit the KAM website, https://kccartmuseum.org/making-their-mark

03/23/2021

March 23: Day 23 of our series "Making Their Mark: A Celebration of Great Women Artists." Our feature today concerns two artists, Frances Loring and Florence Wyle, two Americans who went on to become pioneers of sculpture--in Canada. For the entire series, please visit the KAM website, https://kccartmuseum.org/making-their-mark

03/22/2021

March 22: Day 22 of our series "Making Their Mark: A Celebration of Great Women Artists." Today we look at the renowned painter Amrita Sher-Gil, a leading 20th-century Modernist in India. For the entire series, please visit the KAM website, https://kccartmuseum.org/making-their-mark