The Queens Museum is a home for the production and presentation of great art, intimately connected to our community and to the history of our site.
The Queens Museum is dedicated to presenting the highest quality visual arts and educational programming for people in the New York metropolitan area, and particularly for the residents of Queens, a uniquely diverse, ethnic, cultural, and international community. The Museum fulfills its mission by designing and providing art exhibitions, public programs and educational experiences that promote th
e appreciation and enjoyment of art, support the creative efforts of artists, and enhance the quality of life through interpreting, collecting, and exhibiting art, architecture, and design. The Queens Museum presents artistic and educational programs and exhibitions that directly relate to the contemporary urban life of its constituents, while maintaining the highest standards of professional, intellectual, and ethical responsibility.
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Dive into imagination with this joyful celebration of art and creativity on Saturday 12/17, for an arts-filled day with author/illustrator Tim Miller as he reads his newest book, "Izzy Paints" at the Queens Museum. Free and fun for all ages, program includes book reading, illustration demo, art-making stations, and more!
No registration is needed for this event, learn more: https://qnsmu.se/storytime
Check a few gifts off your holiday list during our last Member's Holiday Weekend for the season!
Members get an extra 5% off their purchase at The August Tree, in addition to their existing membership discount.*
This discount is available in-store and online, swipe to learn more about this promotion and become a member at the 🔗 in our bio!
Access this promotion in-store by giving your full name at the checkout desk.
Here's how to access this promotion online:
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*Promotion terms: QM Artist Editions, the QM Tote Bag, and the Denim Tears line are excluded from this promotion.
We're roar-ing in with dinosaur at the World's Fair for this week's ! 🦖
Back in 1930, Sinclair Oil Corporation made dinosaurs the center of their marketing campaign. Their dinosaur mascots loosely related to their product, oil, which was created back when dinosaurs roamed the planet.
For the 64-65 Fair, Sinclair sponsored “Dinoland.” This outdoor exhibit had nine life-size, fiberglass dinosaurs, including their signature Brontosaurus at 70 feet long.
To get the dinosaurs to the Fair, Sinclair put them on a barge that rode 125 miles down the Hudson River and around Manhattan. Thousands came to greet the dinosaur’s arrival in Queens, an event complete with fire boats spraying giant streams of water.
By the end of the Fair, over 10 million people visited Dinoland. Many of them paid to make their own plastic toy dinosaur with the Mold-a-rama. It was the most popular souvenir at the Fair!
Learn more about Dinoland by listening to the episode on the Gesso audio tour: https://qnsmu.se/dinoland
📷 : (1) T-Rex Sculpture at Sinclair Dinoland Exhibit at the 1964-65 World's Fair, Queens Museum Collection. (2) Visitors at the Sinclair Dinoland Exhibit at the 1964-65 World's Fair, Queens Museum Collection. (3) Brontosaurus at the Sinclair Dinoland Exhibit at the 1964-65 World's Fair, Queens Museum Collection.
In New York, buildings have stories. Set in neighborhoods of communities from all over the world, a building connects our stories to the city, and on The Panorama of the City of New York, you can see how your building is a piece of the ever-changing puzzle of this amazing city. 🗽
As part of the many opportunities to support the Museum, we’re refreshing our Adopt-A Building Program!
Your favorite breakfast shop, your old apartment, your parents house and more, if it’s on the Panorama, then you can lease that building or property for a year with the option to renew at the end of the year. 🏙️
Adopt-A-Building supporters near and far will be able to adopt an apartment, office, building complex, or iconic structure on the Panorama of the City of New York that holds a special meaning to them. Supporters will receive an exclusive title deed for their property. Sign up and support the care of this iconic piece of NYC history today!
Learn more about the Adopt-A-Building program below, and on our website: https://qnsmu.se/adoptabuilding
Mark your calendars. The Queens Museum Annual Gala is on 5/11/2023.
Honoring Angelo Baque and Sable Elyse Smith.
Save the Date!
Want to attend the Gala? Early Bird tickets are available now: https://qnsmu.se/galaearlybird
Did you know one of the most recognizable works of art was at the 1964-65 World's Fair? This World's Fair Wednesday, we're spotlighting Michelangelo's masterpiece, the "Pietà", part of the Vatican Pavilion and led to it being one of the most popular areas of the fair, with many visitors viewing the timeless and renowned statue.
Installed in Old St. Peter's Basilica in 1499, it had never been taken from the Vatican until the late Pope John XXIII granted permission for it to be brought to the Fair. When he visited New York during a visit to the United Nations, he blessed the statue and returned to Italy.
Learn more about the "Pietà" and the Vatican Pavilion by visiting our World's Fair Collection on our next visit: https://qnsmu.se/PlanYourVisit
📷: (1) Vatican Pavilion entrance at the 1964-65 World's Fair, image by Bill Cotter. (2) Michelangelo's "Pietà" at the 1964-65 World's Fair, image by Bill Cotter.
Join us next Saturday 12/3 for a Celebration of Diversity and Disability from 12:00-3:00PM!
Programs include art-making workshops, movement and dance, music and relaxed performance, and storytelling. 🎨
This event is free with registration: https://qnsmu.se/diversity
The Museum will be closed on 11/24 and will reopen on 11/25.
Book your timed ticket at the 🔗 in our bio to visit the this weekend from 11am-5pm! 🍁
📸: Laila Bahman/BFA
This World's Fair Wednesday, we're highlighting the structure that still stands today from the 1964-65 World's Fair, the Theaterama! The Theaterama was part of the New York State Pavilion (which is now the Queens Museum!) at the Fair and featured artwork from 10 artists on its outer wall. 🖼️
The most famous work of the group was Andy Warhol's controversial work "13 Most Wanted Men", which was a mural that consisted of 22 mugshots of the 13 most wanted criminals in New York State. The Theaterama is now The Queens Theatre, a thriving performing arts hub. 🎭
Explore these images from our archives and learn more by listening to the Gesso audio tour: https://qnsmu.se/theaterama
Images: (1) The Theaterama at the 1964-65 World's Fair, Jon Buono. (2) Andy Warhol's "13 Most Wanted Men" at the 1964-65 World's Fair. Mural. Marc Yearsley / Gothamist.
Join us on 12/1 for Day With(out) Art 2022 by presenting Being & Belonging, a program of seven short videos highlighting under-told stories of HIV and AIDS from the perspective of artists living with HIV across the world.
In partnership with Visual AIDS, the program features newly commissioned work by Camila Arce (Argentina), Davina “Dee” Conner and Karin Hayes (USA), Jaewon Kim (South Korea), Clifford Prince King (USA), Santiago Lemus and Camilo Acosta Huntertexas (Colombia), Mikiki (Canada), and Jhoel Zempoalteca and La Jerry (México).
The seven videos are a call for belonging from those that have been stigmatized within their communities or left out of mainstream HIV/AIDS narratives.
The films will be presented on a continuous loop from 12-4pm.
Learn more about each artist: https://qnsmu.se/daywithoutart
The Relief Map of the New York City Water Supply System was created in 1938 to educate New Yorkers about the work that the Department of Water Supply, Gas and Electricity were doing to serve the city.
An example of the use of models to inspire people about the grandness and complexity of New York City, this tradition continued at the 1964 World’s Fair with Robert Moses commissioning the , then and still the world’s largest full-scale architectural model, which is also permanently housed here at the Museum.
These models represent the Museum’s close ties to the history of our building, the history of this park, as well as to New York City. 🗽
View the Relief Map and the Panorama on your next visit!
🔗: https://qnsmu.se/planyourvisit
📷: Scott Rudd
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Christine Sun Kim's "Time Owes Me Rest Again" is on view until January 31st, 2023. A mural on the monumental 40 x 100-foot wall encasing the 9,000-square foot Panorama of the City of New York, a dynamically choreographed group of drawings each representing the five words in the title (“Time,” “Owes,” “Me,” “Rest,” “Again”) in American Sign Language (ASL).
Kim’s work represents the complex realities of Deaf culture. Defining sound as a multi-sensory phenomenon whose properties are auditory, visual, and spatial, as well as socially determined, much of Kim’s work is invested in scrutinizing cultures that tend to ascribe lesser relevance to signed communication, challenging the implicit authority of spoken over signed language.
View "Time Owes Me Rest Again" IRL on your next visit: https://qnsmu.se/planyourvisit
📸: Hai Zhang
Innovation meets beauty in "Tiffany's Lamps: Lighting Luxury." In this collection from The Neustadt, Tiffany's leaded-glass lamps featured intricate designs and colors that turned functional household objects into works of art. At the Museum, visitors can view a curated selection of lamps from the collection, and explore the process to create these timeless pieces.
Check out "Tiffany's Lamps: Lighting Luxury" on our next visit: https://qnsmu.se/planyourvisit
📷: Tiffany Studios Metals Showroom, 45th Street and Madison Avenue. Courtesy The Neustadt Collection of Tiffany Glass.
This World's Fair Wednesday, we're exploring the size of the 1964-65 World's Fair and its different themes. According to these promotional materials from our archives, the World's Fair spanned 646 acres and had 5 different areas: Industrial, International, Federal, States and City, Transportation, and the Lake Area.
Each exhibitor at the fair had 50,000 square feet to showcase their work, and as seen in this map from the fair, the Unisphere stood at the center of the fair. The colors of the fair were blue and orange to represent the colors of the Flag of the City of New York, which still remain today.
Learn more about the World's Fair by visiting our collection on your next visit!
🔗: https://qnsmu.se/planyourvisit
Join us for a Celebration of Diversity and Disability on Saturday, December 3rd from 12:00-3:00pm. Free and fun for all ages, programs include art-making workshops, movement and dance, music and relaxed performance, and storytelling!
This event is free with registration: https://qnsmu.se/diversity
Activities are planned with a multi-sensory approach and center audiences and artists with disabilities, in a supportive and welcoming environment including the following accommodations:
👋 American Sign Language interpretation
💬 Social Narrative including visual instructions and an introduction to the events and workshops
📍 Chill Out spaces, adaptive instructions, and noise reducing headphones, earplugs and fidgets
Here's what to expect during the celebration:
🖌️ A welcoming and engaging space where you can express yourself through art
🎨 Art-making activities using a variety of materials
🎵 Music and movement activities
🖼️ Exploring themes related to the museum exhibitions and gallery experiences
👥 A place to meet other participants who love the arts
🍲 Local food vendors from Queens
📍Resource tables to learn more about disability advocates and organizations
📸: Kuo-Heng Huang
Our 10/29 event was filled with communities, families, and friends coming together to honor their loved ones. We celebrated this special time with film screenings from the Ecuadorian Film Festival EFFNY, musical performances by Mariachi Nuevo Amanecer, art making workshops, and more.
Thank you to all the organizations, artists, performers, and visitors who joined us!
Photos: Kuo-Heng Huang
The Queens Museum is thrilled to announce the artists selected for the 2022-24 In Situ Artist Fellowship and the 2022-23 QM-Jerome Foundation Fellowship for Emerging Artists:
In Situ Artist Fellows: Cameron A. Granger, Nsenga Knight, and Catalina Schliebener Muñoz
QM-Jerome Foundation Fellows: Sonia Louise Davis and Emilie Louise Gossiaux
Learn more about each Fellowship below, and join us in congratulating our fellows! 🎉
🔗: https://qnsmu.se/fellows
🎁 Get a head-start on your holiday shopping by visiting our gift shop during our Members Holiday Day! On Saturday 11/12, members get an extra 5% off their purchase, in addition to their existing membership discount.*
Here's how it works:
📌 If you have an Individual or Dual membership, you will receive a 15% discount off your entire purchase.
📌 If you have a Family or Exhibition Circle membership, you will receive a 20% discount off your entire purchase.
📌 To access this promotion in-store, give your name at the checkout desk.
📌 This promotion applies to new and existing members!
Learn more about our membership program below, and keep an eye out for another Members Holiday Day in December!
🔗 : https://qnsmu.se/membership
*Promotion terms: This promotion only applies to in-store purchases. QM Artist Editions, the QM Tote Bag, and the Denim Tears line are excluded from this promotion.
For this week's World's Fair Wednesday, we're highlighting the past site of the United Nations, the New York City Building, which is now the Queens Museum. From 1946-1950, the United Nations held their assemblies in our building before they moved to their present location in lower Manhattan.
During this time, historic delegations were passed. President Truman gave a speech at an assembly, The Declaration of Human Rights was created, and Mrs. Vijaya Lakshani Pandit, of India, was the only woman to head a delegation during this period.
Explore these images from our archives and learn more about the history of the Museum by visiting our interactive timeline on our new website!
🔗: https://qnsmu.se/history
📷 : (1) United Nations General Assembly, President Harry S.Truman addressing the General Assembly, October 23, 1946. Queens Museum Collection. (2) The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, United Nations, 1946. Queens Museum Collection. (3) Mrs. Vijaya Lakshani Pandit, of India, only woman to head a delegation, October 28, 1946. Queens Museum Collection.
🌐 We're live!
The new queensmuseum.org is here and we can’t wait for you to discover all the different ways we’ve reimagined this digital space.
A major pillar of the institutional brand refresh we launched in early 2022, the website builds on our vibrant color palette and dynamic “conduit” line to connect the unique history of our building to the Queens Museum of today.
Our goal was to create a multilingual, accessible, and engaging hub for everything Queens Museum, and we're thrilled to finally share this with our communities.
Stay tuned in the coming months as we reveal new additions to our website.
Design: New Information Studio
Development: Cold Rice
Head over to our website to check it out!
¡Estamos en vivo! 🌐
El nuevo queensmuseum.org está aquí y no podemos esperar a que descubras las diferentes formas en que hemos reinventado este espacio digital.
Un pilar importante de la actualización de la marca institucional que lanzamos a principios de 2022, el sitio web se basa en nuestra paleta de colores vibrantes y nuestra dinámica línea de "conducto" para conectar la historia única de nuestro edificio con el Queens Museum de hoy.
Nuestro objetivo era crear un centro multilingüe, accesible y atractivo para todo el Queens Museum, y estamos encantados de finalmente compartir esto con nuestras comunidades.
Estén atentos en los próximos meses a medida que revelamos nuevas incorporaciones a nuestro sitio web.
Diseño: New Information Studio
Desarrollo: Cold Rice
Dirígete a nuestro sitio web para comprobarlo!
On 11/5, join us for ASL Slam , a platform that offers the stage to performers and audience members to come up and rap, rhapsodize, and rehash in American Sign Language (ASL).
For this special edition of ASL Slam in conjunction with the exhibition Christine Sun Kim: "Time Owes Me Rest Again" (March 13, 2022 – January 31, 2023) at Queens Museum, performers will creatively respond to the piece by Kim, as well as works on view by artists Xaviera Simmons and Charisse Pearlina Weston.
We’re thrilled to welcome ASL Slam Executive Director Douglas Ridloff as MC and performer, alongside artists, performers, and poets Kaylyn Aaron-Lozano, Joey Antonio, James Caverly, Traz Freeman, Amelia Hensley, Andrew Morrill, and Gabriel Silva.
Learn more: https://qnsmu.se/aslslam
Join us on 10/29 for our annual Celebration! During this event, families, friends, and communities come together to welcome the arrival of the souls of their deceased relatives. Ofrendas, or offerings, are made for the dead to find their way back home.
Organized in partnership with the La Jornada and Queens Museum Cultural Food Pantry, the Ecuadorian Film Festival EFFNY , and a host of community organizations, this day-long celebration will feature a film screening, musical and dance performances, as well as artmaking activities for the whole family.
Swipe through for the full schedule and learn more here: https://qnsmu.se/diadelosmu***os
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¡Únase a nosotros el 10/29 para nuestra celebración anual del ! Durante este evento, familias, amigos y comunidades se unen para recibir la llegada de las almas de sus familiares fallecidos. Se hacen ofrendas u ofrendas para que los mu***os encuentren el camino de regreso a casa.
Organizada en colaboración con La Jornada y la despensa cultural del Museo de Queens, el Festival de Cine Ecuatoriano EFFNY y una gran cantidad de organizaciones comunitarias, esta celebración de un día de duración contará con una proyección de películas, espectáculos musicales y de danza, así como actividades artísticas para el toda la familia.
¡Desliza para ver el calendario completo y aprende más abajo: https://qnsmu.se/diadelosmu***os
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12:00 – 3:00pm: Actividad de arte familiar Family Art Making Workshop
Calaveras de Masa de Sal Salt-Dough Calaveras:
Para celebrar la festividad, los visitantes pueden esculpir, pintar y decorar calaveritas de azúcar hechas con masa de sal.(harina sin gluten, sal y agua) y cortan su propio Papel Picado de papel de seda.To celebrate the holiday, visitors can sculpt, paint, & decorate sugar skulls made from salt dough (gluten-free flour, salt, and water) and cut their own Papel Picado from tissue paper.
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12:00 – 2:15pm: El Festival de Cine Ecuatoriano presenta Picchu (8 min), Negrita (12 min), Tiam (El regreso) (15 min) y Los que no aparecen (47 min). Obtenga más información aquí. The Ecuadorian Film Festival presents Picchu (8 min), Negrita (12 min), Tiam (El regreso) (15 min) and Los que no aparecen (47 min).
https://www.facebook.com/EcuadorianFilmFest
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2:30 – 3:15pm: Presentaciones por POÉTICAS, un colectivo de música y poesía, que interpretan obras originales y preexistentes extrayendo sonidos del son jarocho, boleros, landó, panalivios y más. Performance by POÉTICAS, a music and poetry collective who perform original and preexisting works drawing sounds from son jarocho, boleros, landó, panalivios and beyond.
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3:30 – 4:00pm: Manhatitlan Presentación de Baile: La Llorona (Oaxaca), La Bruja (Veracruz) y Los Viejitos (Michoacán) Manhatitlan Dance Performance: La Llorona (Oaxaca), La Bruja (Veracruz) and Los Viejitos (Michoacán)
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4:00 – 4:30pm: Academia de Mariachi Nuevo Amanecer
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🎉 Join us on 10/22 for I’m Finna Talk’s () one year anniversary, a day of joyous community celebration featuring a Free Gender Affirming Pop Up Shop for Black and Brown LGBTQIA+ community members, alongside workshops and a variety show. 🙌
Connect with various mutual aid groups and organizations around NYC; join art and movement workshops; and enjoy live drag, stand-up comedy and music performances.
RSVP: https://qnsmu.se/wefinnacelebrate
We're highlighting a fun recipe for Cream Cheese Pie for this week's World's Fair Wednesday!
At the 1939-40 World's Fair, popular food brands like Kraft & Wonder Bread had their own pavilions and even shared their recipe using Philadelphia Cream Cheese!
Explore these image from our archives, and try to make some pie using this recipe! 🥧
📸: (1) Kraft Recipe Booklet (front) from the 1939-40 World's Fair, Queens Museum Collection.
🍎 Registration for school tours and workshops is now open!
We're so excited to welcome back K-12 school groups by appointment, Monday through Friday, 10:00am - 12:00pm. Our guided tours and workshops are led by experienced Teaching Artists, connecting our permanent collection and rotating contemporary exhibitions to our workshop curriculum and themes.
🖼️ Our two-hour school program includes a guided gallery experience and art-making workshop incorporating our permanent collections such as The Panorama of the City of New York, The Neustadt Collection of Tiffany Glass, Relief Map of the New York City Water Supply System, and the World’s Fair Collection.
Please note, appointments are required for all school groups visiting the Museum and must be scheduled at least three weeks in advance. Availability is limited.
Learn more and book your school trip: https://qnsmu.se/schooltours
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📣 A new season means new exhibitions at the Queens Museum! 📣 This week we'll be sharing our upcoming Fall 2022 season: Xaviera Simmons "Crisis Makes a Book Club" https://qnsmu.se/xavierasimmons Charisse Pearlina Weston "of [a] tomorrow: lighter than air, stronger than whiskey, cheaper than dust." https://qnsmu.se/charissepweston Here's a short teaser, stay tuned...
On June 18, we celebrated Inti Raymi (Sun Festival) with a ceremony by Abya Yala Arte y Cultura, art making activities for families, and dance performances from the Andes ☀️ Abya Yala Arte y Cultura, an artist collective dedicated to increasing awareness of Andean culture, celebrates the Inti Raymi with a deep sense of conviction and identification with its ancestral roots. More than a “representation” of the Inti Raymi, their work conveys how the Inti Raymi exists within us, its essence expressing humankind’s need for survival and a shared sense of universal responsibility for both mankind and nature. 🌎 The Inti Raymi re-connects us to Mother Earth, stressing the importance of indigenous beliefs in the stewardship of the planet. Abya Yala Arte y Cultura celebrates the Inti Raymi in search of a better path to peace and harmony amongst all. A big thank you to Senator Jessica Ramos and to all the community members who came to celebrate with us! 🗓 This event was presented as part of two fantastic festivals happening in June: Queens Rising and Lincoln Center’s Festival of New York. Photos 📸: Kuo-Heng Huang
The Queens Museum is excited to announce open calls for our new In Situ Artist Fellowship and the 5th edition of the QM-Jerome Foundation Fellowship for Emerging Artists! 📌The In Situ Artist Fellowship is a two-year fellowship (October 2022-September 2024) for three artists to receive rent-free studio space and an annualized salaried position at $45,000 per year with full benefits. Artists will develop their practice in collaboration with specific areas of the Museum’s work and Queens constituencies, prioritizing co-creation, relationship building, research and ambitious experimentation. Artists will also develop a solo exhibition to open in Spring 2024. 📌The QM JeromeFoundation Fellowship for Emerging Artists in New York City will grant two visual artists $20,000 each, individual studio space at the QM, as well as professional development consultations and close mentorship from QM staff members working toward an artist’s project. Fellows will have access to individual studios from October 2022 through September 2023. These one-year fellowships will culminate in solo exhibitions at QM in Fall 2023. 🔗 Learn more about each fellowship and register for upcoming info sessions here: https://qnsmu.se/ArtistOpportunities
🙌 On June 1, Governor Kathy Hochul, Port Authority, Delta Air Lines, and the Queens Museum celebrated the inauguration of Delta's new Terminal C at LaGuardia Airport and the unveiling of permanent large-scale art installations! For this new terminal, Delta Air Lines, in collaboration with Queens Museum, has commissioned art installations from six renowned New York-based artists: 📍Mariam Ghani 📍Rashid Johnson 📍Aliza Nisenbaum 📍Virginia Overton 📍Ronny Quevedo 📍Fred Wilson ✈️ The new works are located in the terminal’s multiple-floor spanning atriums and elevator walls, as well as the baggage claim area and concession space. Ranging from sculptures made of stainless steel, aluminum, and glass to intricate Italian mosaic murals, and even gymnasium flooring, the Queens Museum x Delta Air Lines commissions encompass the movement, vibrancy, and architectural ingenuity of Queens and highlights the diverse communities that call the borough home. Artworks by artists Mariam Ghani, Rashid Johnson, Virginia Overton and Ronny Quevedo are now officially open to the public. Pieces by Aliza Nisenbaum and Fred Wilson are currently under construction and set to be finalized by early Fall 2022. 🔗 Click here to learn more about these six commissions and the artists behind them!: https://qnsmu.se/TerminalCCommissionsLGA
📣 The Queens Museum is hiring for four full-time roles! 📌 Exhibitions Production Assistant: you have in-depth knowledge of exhibition production techniques and strong problem-solving skills across a range of applications. 📌 Media Coordinator: you have exceptional writing, editing, and digital content production skills, and are passionate about the intersection of art and social-first storytelling. 📌 Facilities Manager: you have extensive computer, administrative, and communications skills, prior supervisory and vendor management experience, and the proven ability to lead and delegate projects. 📌 Technical Facilities Assistant: you have the technical, communication, and interpersonal skills that allow you to complete a broad variety of tasks in a timely and effective manner; and work well in individual and team settings. Benefits include flexible remote work policy, generous paid time off, 12 paid Holidays per year, Medical, Dental, Vision benefits, and Retirement benefits, and more! 🔗 Click here to learn more about these new opportunities! Bilingual candidates and residents of Queens are strongly encouraged to apply: https://qnsmu.se/Careers
🙌 Announcing the Queens Teens Institute for Art and Social Justice! This program - lead by our Education team and collaborators from across the community - will focus on nurturing thoughtful young artists, and the next generation of Queens-based leaders in the arts and social change. By providing structured learning and professional development opportunities through the Museum, peer-mentorship, and community partnerships, The Queens Teens Institute will foster a peer network among creative and socially-engaged young people across the borough, seeking to provide a brave, empowering and structured environment for teens to express themselves and learn and grow. ✍️ Applications for the Fall 2022 cohort are now open! 🔗 Click here to learn more: https://qnsmu.se/QueensTeensInstitute
Artist Christine Sun Kim visualizes sound through graphic mediums including illustrations and animations. Currently, you can view her most recent work on the 40-foot wall outside our Panorama of the City Of New York. “Time Owes Me Rest Again” illustrates the gestures in American Sign Language that spell out the words “Time”,. “Owes”,. “Me”,. “Rest”, and. “Again”. In this animation, you see the gestures from Kim’s 40-foot illustration in motion, as they depict a message partially in response to the last few years of braving a global pandemic. Part of our new season of exhibitions, Christine Sun Kim’s “Time Owes Me Rest Again” is now on view at the Queens Museum. Click here to learn more about the exhibition: https://qnsmu.se/TimeOwesMeRestAgain
👀 Have you seen this cutie scampering around in front of the Queens Museum? Queens Zoo, could you help us identify this shy visitor? Drop your guesses in the comments and send us a pic if you spot ‘em! #AnimalsOfQueens
🎉 The Queens Museum is excited to announce that our 50th anniversary Gala will honor acclaimed artist Christine Sun Kim, as well as cultural creator, storyteller and director of fashion brand Denim Tears, Tremaine Emory. 🗓️ Join us, on May 12 from 6:30pm - 10:30pm as we honor these pioneering creatives whose work has encompassed the personal narratives of so many intersecting communities. 🍾 Kim uses the medium of sound in various forms including performance and drawing to investigate its relation to spoken language and the aural environment. Her work is invested in scrutinizing cultures that tend to ascribe lesser relevance to signed communication, challenging the implicit authority of spoken over signed language. Emory, a Queens native and a Year of Uncertainty Co-Thinker, is a cultural creator, storyteller, and artist who has worked with some of the biggest names in fashion, including Marc Jacobs, Stüssy, and now Supreme. We are so proud to have the opportunity to work with these two creatives, who are pioneers in their own right. This evening will include a lively cocktail party with hors d’oeuvres provided by local restaurants, a delicious dinner by Abigail Kirsch, special performances, and a paddle raise to support the Queens Museum’s impactful programs. Tickets to the Queens Museum’s 50th Anniversary Gala are available online now. 🔗 Click here for more information and book your ticket! https://qnsmu.se/50thAnniversaryGala
Join the Queens Museum - February 13th from 2:00pm-5:00pm - for a public closing reception celebrating the Year Of Uncertainty (YoU) exhibitions and projects. Click here to learn more: qnsmu.se/YoUClosingReception Over the course of 2021 and into 2022, the Queens Museum has been undertaking a Year of Uncertainty (YoU), a framework for strengthening connections among the Museum, our communities, and constituents, focused on creating new possibilities for culture, kinship, and mutual support. Centered around themes of Care, Repair, Play, Justice, and The Future, six Artists-In-Residence, nine Community Partners, and twelve Co-Thinkers were invited to be at the center of YoU through iterative processes of exhibition making, programming and shared thinking. You can check out following exhibitions and projects at the reception as part of the Year Of Uncertainty: YoU Artists-In-Residence exhibitions: - Gabo Camnitzer, “Glorious Wound” - Tecumseh Ceaser, “Water Connects Us All” - Utsa Hazarika, “Living As A Nation” - Mo Kong, “Personal Ark” - Julian Louis Phillips, “The Strategic Response Group (TSRG)” - Alex Strada & Tali Keren, “Proposal for a 28th Amendment? Is it Possible to Amend an Unequal System?” YoU Community Partner exhibitions: - BordeAndo, “Sentimientos en Comunidad (Feelings in Community)” - Caribbean Equality Project, “Live Pridefully: Love and Resilience within Pandemics” - Colectivo Intercultural TRANSgrediendo, “En recuerdo de Lorena Borjas (In Remembrance of Lorena Borjas)” - Guardians of Flushing Bay, “Field Station for Flushing Bay and Creek” - LIFE Camp, “Kingdom Peace” - Malikah, “What would the world look like, taste like, sound like, smell like, and feel like if ALL women were safe and could step into their power?”, as well as “Self Defense Toolkit” - Rockaway Development & Revitalization Corporation, “A Pandemic World – Through our Eyes” - Sakhi for South Asian Women, “Inherent Pow
Presented as part of the exhibition “Glorious Wound”, Year of Uncertainty Artist-In-Residence Gabo Caminitzer’s interactive piece, “Lots Of Dots”, was designed to help children think critically about how learning spaces are designed, and how they might design them differently. With a plush carpet of oscillating lights and colors, Camnitzer challenges methods of teaching commonly used in classrooms. On February 5, 2022 – from 2:00pm - 3:40pm – Camnitzer will be hosting “The Student Body”, a movement workshop for 7-9 year-olds. Organized in collaboration with dancer, movement researcher and elementary school teacher, Danielle Staropoli, Camnitzer will encourage participants to experiment with different ways of using the “Lots of Dots” carpet. The workshop will have two sessions: - 2:00pm – 2:40pm - 3:00pm – 3:40pm Each session can accommodate up to 6 children and parents are invited to visit the Museum for the duration of the workshop. If interested please email [email protected] to RSVP! To learn more: qnsmu.se/Studentbodymovementworkshop
✨Wishing you a happy and healthy new year from all of us at the Queens Museum 🎉! 🙌A big thank you to all the artists, art workers, organizers, volunteers, programming partners, local leaders, and audiences near and far who helped make 2021 another year to remember, filled with learning and shared-growth.
Episode 4 of our #CollectionDive series is now up on our YouTube Channel!. QM Archives and Collections manager, Lynn Maliszewski, takes viewers through items in-storage and donated to the Museum’s #WorldsFair collection. Check out the new video here, and click the subscribe button on our YouTube page to be the first to know about our new videos! https://qnsmu.se/CollectionDiveEp4
We love it when you send us mementos from the #WorldsFair for our archives! In Episode 3 of our World’s Fair Collection Dive series, Lynn Maliszewski – the Queens Museum’s Archives and Collection Manager – sheds light on the 1964-65 Fair grounds while presenting a selection of recently donated archival black and white photographs. In this teaser, you can see the NY State Pavilion, which still stands in Flushing Meadows Corona park! Click here to watch our Collection Dive series on YouTube: https://qnsmu.se/CollectionDriveEp3
A new Episode of World’s Fair Collection Dive is here! In Episode 3, join Lynn Maliszewski, Queens Museum Archives and Collections Manager, as she unboxes some never-before-seen items from our World’s Fair Collection in honor of our current exhibition “Ambitious Slogans and Colorful Promises: the 1964-65 New York World's Fair". 🔗 To see the full video: https://qnsmu.se/CollectionDriveEp3
In January 2021, the Queens Museum invited six Artists-In-Residence, nine Community Partners, and twelve Co-Thinkers to be at the center of the Year Of Uncertainty (YoU), a framework for strengthening connections among the Museum, our communities, and constituents. Working together with Queens Museum staff across departments, this YoU Cohort is informing and participating in a reimagining of what the Museum can be. We are excited to share that outputs of this learning and process can now be experienced in our galleries, through public conversations, activations, and presentations across all spaces and platforms. These public-facing presentations will unfold in three phases: I. October 2021 — Participate & Build invites visitors to join the co-creation of projects in progress through public programming. II. November-December 2021 — Engage & Experience highlights exhibitions and activations in their further developed state. III. January 2022 — Synthesize & Reflect concludes the year of collective research and collaboration in an intensive public assembly, leading to new, flexible, working methods that will help us sustain and grow our commitments to culture, accessibility, and equity. Stay tuned to learn more about the projects in progress that are currently taking shape at the Museum throughout “Phase 1: Participate & Build”.
Curious to see some of the hidden treasures in our World’s Fair archives 🔍? Watch Lynn Maliszewski, Archives and Collections Manager, unbox new finds 📦 from our World's Fair Collection in honor of our current exhibition “Ambitious Slogans and Colorful Promises: The 1964-1965 New York World’s Fair”: https://qnsmu.se/AmbitiousSlogansColorfulPromises. The show is on view through January 30, 2022 and is composed entirely of items in the Queens Museum’s collection – with artifacts and ephemera from the Fair installed alongside artworks from the same era. Check out the first two episodes of our Collection Dive series here: https://qnsmu.se/WFCollectionDives. Mark your calendars 📆: Starting September, come experience our live archiving station at the Museum weekly on Fridays from noon to 5:00pm.
Our "Give Up the Goods" Community Day is happening this Sunday in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park! Come celebrate the best borough in NYC 😉 with some amazing music, food, and art activities. 🌐 Music by Venus X, Hank Korsan, and Guillaume Berg 🌐 Food by Queens Night Market Vendors and Torrin from Sheralyn’s Bakery 🌐 Limited edition Queens Museum merch by Denim Tears 🌐 Artmaking and workshops from Queens Museum community BordeAndo, LIFE Camp, and more Free and open to the public. All ages welcome! https://qnsmu.se/GUTGNews
T- minus 1 week until our "Give Up the Goods" Community Day in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park! 💥 https://qnsmu.se/GUTGNews On Sunday, June 13, from 12pm to 5pm, join Tremaine Emory and the Queens Museum for our first-ever “Give Up the Goods” Community Day inside our galleries and on our lawn overlooking the Unisphere. 🌐 Music by Hank Korsan and New York nightlife legend Venus X 🌐 Food by Queens Night Market vendors and Torrin from Sheralyn’s Bakery 🌐 Limited edition Queens Museum merch by Denim Tears 🌐 Artmaking and workshops from Queens Museum "Year of Uncertainty" Community Partners Bordeando, LIFE Camp and more! Free and open to the public. All ages welcome! We can’t wait to see you there 🙌
The word is out: Queens Museum and Tremaine Emory are throwing a party🔥! https://qnsmu.se/GUTGNews After a challenging year, we want to celebrate the strength and resilience of our borough with you. We’ve invited Queens-raised Tremaine Emory, Founder and Creative Director of Denim Tears, to help us throw an epic celebration. Join us on Sunday, June 13, 2021 in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park for a free, physically-distanced event! 🎵 Music by Venus X and Hank Korsan 🥡 Food by Queens Night Market vendors and Torrin from Sheralyn’s Bakery 🧢 Limited edition Queens Museum x Denim Tears merch 🎨 Art making activities and workshops by Queens Museum Community Partners LIFE Camp pand Bordeando, and more! Sound provided by I.S.T. Stüssy and Denim Tears 🎙We hope you’ll also join us on Monday, June 7, when Tremaine Emory is joined in conversation by his friend and celebrated contemporary artist Hank Willis Thomas, moderated by Dr. Amy Raffel. https://qnsmu.se/GUTGVirtualTalk Tremaine and Hank will use Amy's book “Art and Merchandise in Keith Haring's Pop Shop” as a jumping-off point to discuss intersections in their work between media, pop culture, and art multiples as activism.
One month ago, we joined forces with For Freedoms, Wide Awakes, OCA-New York Chapter, Queens Public Library, Blasian March, Send Chinatown Love, and our #YearOfUncertainty Community Partners MinKwon Center 민권센터 and Caribbean Equality Project for “No Longer Invisible”, a multi-racial, multi-faith vigil and gathering initiated in response to recent and ongoing attacks against Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities. Despite the heavy rain, we were proud to stand in solidarity with such incredible creatives and organizations to grieve, heal, and honor our heritage in Flushing – a community that has been disproportionately impacted by the pandemic and by Anti-Asian violence this year, and yet has received little support and attention. This week, the final result of our collective banner-making project, led by littlemanilaqueens and centered around the concept of “We Belong”, will be on view at the Queens Museum. http://qnsmu.se/OnViewWeBelong
TONIGHT! YoU Talk: Healing Work within Community: Aesthetics and Poetics of Survival / Trabajo Curativo dentro de la comunidad: Estética y Poética de la Supervivencia Monday, April 19, 2021 - 6:00pm to & 7:00pm Presented by Unit 25: Building Culture (Spitzer School of Architecture), this first #YearOfUncertainty Talk will delve into the artistic practices of Raúl Cárdenas Osuna, Founder and Director of Torolab, and YoU Co-Thinker Guadalupe Maravilla. Both artists incorporate community organizing, collective performativity, and sculptural/spatial practices into their work while engaging with distinct forms of responding to trauma and violence. The two presentations will be followed by open conversation and Q&A. In an act of decentering the dominance of the English language, this program will be presented in Spanish with Spanish-English interpretation services. The talk will be recorded and shared on the Queens Museum YouTube channel with English captions. To register: https://qnsmu.se/HealingWorkWithinCommunity — Presentado por Unit 25: Construyendo Cultura (Escuela de Arquitectura Spitzer), este primer Year of Uncertainty Talk (Conversacion YoU) profundizará en las prácticas artísticas de Raúl Cárdenas Osuna, Fundador y Director de Torolab, y YoU Co-pensador Guadalupe Maravilla. Ambos artistas están involucrados con aspectos de la organización comunitaria directa, la performatividad colectiva y las prácticas escultóricas/espaciales, a menudo aprovechando distintas formas de responder al trauma y la violencia. Las dos presentaciones serán seguidas por una conversación abierta y preguntas y respuestas. En un acto de descentralización del dominio del idioma inglés, este programa se presentará en español con servicios de interpretación español-inglés. La charla será grabada y compartida en el canal de YouTube del Queens Museum con subtítulos en inglés. Para registrarse: https://qnsmu.se/HealingWorkWithinCommunity
Become a Queens Museum Member at the Friendship level and above, and receive your very own Unisphere tote bag! The perfect accessory for a sunny afternoon in Flushing Meadows Corona Park 🌞 For more info about our new Membership Program: https://qnsmu.se/QMMembership
On this #InternationalTransgenderDayOfVisibility, we are celebrating the life and legacy of Queens-based activist Lorena Borjas, who we lost a year ago. As the founder of both Colectivo Intercultural TRANSgrediendo and the Lorena Borjas Community Bail Fund, Lorena was a pioneering advocate for trans Latinx rights, supporting countless people in the undocumented, immigrant and sex-worker communities within and beyond Queens. Yesterday, we had the honor of joining our "Year Of Uncertainty" Community Partner Colectivo Intercultural TRANSgrediendo as well as other trans leaders from the Queens community for a joy and music-filled celebration of Lorena’s work and spirit. The event was also marked by the unveiling of Lorena Borjas Way (Baxter Avenue and 83rd street).
Don't forget: this weekend is your last chance to (re)discover our exhibitions "Bruce Davidson: Outsider on the Inside" and "After the Plaster Foundation, or, 'Where can we live?'". Book your free timed ticket here: https://qnsmu.se/Eventbrite.
In celebration of Black History Month, we’re highlighting a selection of collection items and past exhibitions that recognize the Black artists who have contributed to a sense of world building at the Queens Museum. "At Council; Found Peace" is a collaborative performance presented at the Queens Museum in 2019 as part of Alexandria Smith’s "Monuments to an Effigy" exhibition. https://queensmuseum.org/2018/10/alexandria-smith-monuments-to-an-effigy This original piece composed by Liz Gré - featuring Maurisa Mansaray and Alexandria Smith - combines cello, soprano, gospel tonality, and spoken voice with the poetry of Gwendolyn Brooks. The sound performance explores the process of seeking clarity and guidance from those who came before: our mothers, our ancestors, our heroes and predecessors that thrived and persevered in another time.
HG Contemporary Art Center, Inc. - 黄氏當代藝術中心
Main Street, New YorkLynn Gilbert Exhibition at The Godwin-Ternbac
Kissena Boulevard, New York
The Vander Ende-Onderdonk House
Flushing Avenue