The Queens Museum: Th ink going to a museum might be boring? Not the Queens Museum, which is conveniently located right The Museum was founded in 1972 and is housed in the New York City Building, an historic site originally built for the 1939 World’s Fair. The Museum is known for its international contemporary art exhibitions that refl ect the cultural diversity of Queens, and its Education Department is the first museum in the country to employ art therapists in a dedicated, fully accessible classroom. In addition, the Museum’s Public Events department has hired community organizers to work on local improvement initiatives. It is also known for its artistic and educational programs designed to promote the appreciation and understanding of art, particularly those that relate to contemporary urban life. Here is just a sampling of what the Queens Museum off ers. Education Queens Teens Internships Through this year-long paid internship program, Queens Teens offers local youth opportunities to learn about contemporary art and gain a deep understanding of the inner workings of a cultural institution, while developing their own creative interest and passion for the arts in a community of like-minded peers. Th e Teens become part of a closeknit professional and peer network that fosters personal and professional growth and provides individualized support as they move towards college and beyond. Students meet on Saturday aft ernoons and other times throughout the year for exhibition tours, skillbuilding workshops and presentations by Museum staff . In addition, Queens Teens receive work assignments in one of the museum’s major departments: Curatorial, Education, and Public Programs. Responsibilities include assisting with Family Art Workshops, public programs and events, helping Museum visitors navigate the galleries and sharing insights and knowledge about current exhibitions. Students can receive school community service credit for Saturday activities and a salary for weekend work assignments. Teens may participate in Queens Teens over multiple years with the aim of building on skills developed and gaining confi dence as they grow in the program and progress through high school. Family Art Workshops The Queens Museum also offers weekly Drop-in Family Art Workshops on Sundays from 1:30pm- 4:30pm that are free with Museum admission. These fun, educational workshops invite children ages 5-12 and their adult companions to take part in a shared learning experience that take visitors into the Museum’s galleries and art studios. Activities off er families the opportunity to refl ect on the artworks presented in Museum exhibitions as they work collaboratively to create unique works of their own with a variety of diff erent materials. Th e art projects are as wildly diverse as the Queens Museum’s dynamic permanent and changing exhibitions. From building monsters to designing city blocks to making puppets, the art works are created by adults and children together under the guidance of skilled and caring teaching artists and a team of youth assistants from our Queens Teens program. Family Art Workshops accommodate diverse learners and are accessible to families with children with special needs as well as English Language Learners. No advance registration is necessary. Family Workshops take place in one of the museum’s art studios at different locations each week, so ask the admissions desk where to go when you arrive. Exhibits Mierle Laderman Ukeles: Maintenance Art – Now through February 19, 2017 Since the late 1960s, Mierle Laderman Ukeles’ performances, sculptural installations, and writings have explored issues profoundly important to society today: the role of women in society, cultures of work and labor, and urban and community resilience. Her Manifesto for Maintenance Art 1969! laid out the hidden yet essential role of maintenance in Western society. Th is exhibit is the fi rst survey of Ukeles’ work and spans fi ve decades beginning with her work as a pioneer of feminist performance up to a practitioner of public art. Ukeles is bestknown 30 DECEMBER, 2016 | WWW.QNS.COM | LEFRAK CITY COURIER for her 36+ year role as the offi cial, unsalaried Artist-in-Residence at New York’s Department of Sanitation. Unprecedented when it began in 1978, this residency has now become a model for municipalities engaging with artists as creative agents. Holland Cotter, art critic for the New York Times, said of this exhibit, “Full and exemplary retrospectives of major but under-known American artists are rare. Th e Queens Museum has such a show in “Mierle Laderman Ukeles: Maintenance Art.” Note: All current and former Department of Sanitation NY employees and their families are admitted free throughout the run of the exhibition. Panorama of the City of New York – On long term view Th e Panorama of the City of New York is probably the museum’s bestknown exhibit and is considered its crown jewel, attracting visitors from all over the world. Conceived as a celebration of the City’s municipal infrastructure by urban mastermind and World’s Fair President Robert Moses for the 1964 Fair, the Panorama was built by a team of more than 100 people working for the great architectural model makers Raymond Lester & Associates over the course of three years. Lester was familiar with building largerthan life model environments, having worked with Norman Bel Geddes as an artist, designer and fabricator for the 1939/40 New York World’s Fair, and later, on other large scale models of civic projects for Moses. In planning the Panorama, Lester referred to aerial photographs, Sanborn fi re insurance maps, and a range of other City material as the Panorama had to be accurate, with the initial contract demanding less than one percent margin of error between reality and the “world’s largest scale model.” Each of the city’s 895,000 buildings constructed prior to 1992 and every street, park and some 100 bridges are represented and assembled onto 273 individual sections near LeFrak City in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park.
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