But not quite… QMA is undergoing renovations, and we need to gear up for the new galleries, so we are going to slow things down for a bit. This means we will not have any classes until the month of October. We will, however, try to keep you busy with outings to other art spaces and by participating in some local festivals. So keep checking your email (and our calendar) [read more...]
On June 8, 2013, the students from our Optical Illusions and Collage class went on a field trip to MoMA. As a new intern for the program, it was my first experience with the students. It was a great experience to see them share their thoughts and what they have learnt about Op Art from their teacher. At MoMA, we began by looking at the exhibition Abstract Generation: Now in [read more...]
It was a frenetic 5 weeks, but for that short of an ammount of time our students did great work. Thanks to: Thelmo Cordones, Joseph Levin, Gary Yuen, Carina Yuen, José Gomez, María Cristina Castaño, Melissa Inniss, Fernando Espinoza, Robert Corr, Fiona Yuen
Students focusing on their works at the Optical Illusions and Collage class on Saturday, June 1, 2013.
Samples of Artwork in progress by students: Thelmo Cordones, Joseph Levin, Gary Yuen, Carina Yuen, José Gomez, María Cristina Castaño, Melissa Inniss, Fernando Espinoza, Robert Corr, Fiona Yuen
It is the last day of the App Development in Mandarin class and our students have been working hard on their projects. We have gathered much information to date and the need for supplemental information inside the Panorama exhibit keeps recurring. Students want to point their devices at the Panorama and learn new things about the areas they are pointing at. “Takeaways” have also figured largly on all of the [read more...]
Our graduation party: Photo taken by Shan Mo Zhou
In 2011 Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation—the philanthropic arm of Deutsche Bank—awarded the New New Yorkers Program with a grant to develop the Queens Museum’s first mobile application. The app will center on the Panorama of the City of New York—QMA’s crown jewel—and will take on both informative and interactive (user generated) aspects. Early on NNY decided to crowd-source the development work for the app. That is, we asked our Users [read more...]
Workshop 4.21 Review: We talked about the power of story telling, and how images can help us to tell stories, and help our audience to understand better who we are and what we do. The class saw Ted Talk: Scott McCloud’s on Comics. Scott McCloud is the author of the book : Understanding Comics. We talk about storyboarding and the same as in films and video, we can [read more...]
