NNY ESL Book Arts – Week 4
NNY Blog Post #4 We started some side projects like an ABC coloring book for kids, as an example I wrote “A is for Arepa. Alejandro ate an arepa in Astoria” and drew an arepa. Students did the same for … Continue reading NNY ESL Book Arts – Week 4
Valentine’s Day Celebration
In this single day workshop, we made Valentine’s cards. We used construction paper, scissors and glue sticks. First we learnt the structure of a simple “pop up” card with two sheets of paper (2 contrasting colors): one for the inside … Continue reading Valentine’s Day Celebration
NNY ESL Book Arts – Week 3
ESL Book Arts New New Yorkers Program Queens Museum Teaching Artist: Cristina Ferrigno NNY Blog Post #3 In our third class, we added to our vocabulary books with terms having to do with publishing, different kinds of writing, and the … Continue reading NNY ESL Book Arts – Week 3
NNY ESL Book Arts – Week 2
NNY ESL Book Arts – Week 1
En nuestra primera semana de clase, nos presentamos: “Hola, me llamo . Soy de ___, y vivo en _“. ¡Fue muy agradable conocer a todos en la clase! Esta semana hemos aprendido sobre los Zines, que son pequeños libros impresos. … Continue reading NNY ESL Book Arts – Week 1
NNY Intro to Printmaking – Week 6
DIRECT-TRACE DRAWING – January 10th, 2023. As mentioned, we got to the end of the Intro to Printmaking Workshops series. It was a delight having all of you in this class. Everyone developed a particular way of printing through the … Continue reading NNY Intro to Printmaking – Week 6
Into to Printmaking – Week 5
Happy New!This was the first class of 2023. We got together after the holiday’ break for our 5th class. In this session, we learned what Print Registration is and how to use it. In the 4th session, we made two … Continue reading Into to Printmaking – Week 5
NNY Intro to Printmaking Week 4
As we get to the end of the year, we are getting closer to the end of the Intro to Printmaking workshop. We have two more classes and a few other things to learn and experiment with. In the Fourth … Continue reading NNY Intro to Printmaking Week 4
NNY Intro to Printmaking – Week 3
This week we got together for the third session of the series Intro to Printmaking. As mentioned the week before, the goal of this session was to make monotypes using stencils.Before we experimented with this technique, our instructor brought a … Continue reading NNY Intro to Printmaking – Week 3