“We had our first class at the Corona Library. We were fortunate to have an excited group of students—ready to learn English through Art. We started by introducing ourselves in Spanish or English, whichever language we felt comfortable in. Everybody shared their nationalities and how long they have lived here in America—many students shared their desire to learn English and excitement to participate in the workshop. Thereafter, we started a warm-up exercise which consisted of conjugating the verb ‘to be’ together as a class. Students then were introduced to the Queens Museum through a virtual tour; it was a perfect opportunity to present Mariam Ghani’s The Garden of Forked Tongues wall. After looking at a picture of the wall on the projector screen, students were given an opportunity to speculate what this colorful wall represents. One student asked what each color represented, this question incited a meaningful conversation about how the 59 polygons on the wall represents an endangered language of the world that is still spoken in Queens. We then discussed the meaning of the word “tongue” since it appears inside each of the polygons—representing one of the endangered languages. Throughout the exploration of the wall our students had many insightful questions; this facilitated a great opportunity to new vocabulary exposure. Most importantly, towards the end of the class one of our students enthusiastically expressed that ‘we are experimenting’ because many of them are new to English and Art. It was evident that a certain openness to experience and curiosity had been sparked!” Jennifer Cruz Marulanda.