Primera Lección. Familiarizarse con los materiales y la técnica de acuarela: En nuestra primera clase de acuarela los estudiantes pudieron familiarizarse con los elementos básicos del nuevo material, como por ejemplo darse cuenta de que el papel utilizado tiene sus … Continue reading Experimental Watercolor Workshop _ Week 1
The Memories of Migration- Oral History Workshop is the first collaboration project between Queens Library- Queens Memory Project and New New Yorkers Program. The participants start the first interview exercise by sharing their stories from the images of their earliest … Continue reading The Memories of Migration- Oral History Workshop
We had a wonderful visit to Zhang Hongtu’s studio for our last English class. Hongtu and his wife very graciously opened their studio in Woodside Queens for us. We asked Hongtu questions about his art practice and his past … Continue reading ESOL Class with Pamela Cardwell- Week 6 ( last class / visiting Zhang Hongtu’s Studio )
In partnership with the Korean Cultural Services New York, we gathered last Saturday Dec 13, to see Space in 36.5°C, to hear artist Jihwan Park and to participate in an art workshop. Jinwan Park is one of the artists exhibiting at the … Continue reading Artist Talk and Workshop with Jinwan Park
Week 5 was spent concentrating on aspects of Zhang Hongtu’s influences and comparing and contrasting his different bodies of work. Students looked at some of the books from Zhang’s library in the sunken living room and thought about how these … Continue reading ESOL Class with Pamela Cardwell- Week 5
Last Saturday, December 5 class was held at the Queens Museum where students got to see the work of Zhang Hongtu for the first time. We went through the exhibit and viewed the work from different time periods of Zhang … Continue reading ESOL, English as a Second Language, Week 4
During our last class, students put the final touches on their books and bound the copies of their books for trading. After all the books for finalized, students headed to the gallery to do a short artist presentation about their … Continue reading MEMORY,HISTORY IN ZINES AND ARCHIVES – Final Week 11/22/15
On Saturday, November 21 students did a listening and pronounciation exercise to distinguish t, d and ed endings in regular past tense verbs. We looked at Zhang Hongtu’s Remake of Ma Yuan’s Water Series and talked about differences between the … Continue reading ESOL, English as a Second Language, Week 3
During our second to last class, students finalized their books using the feedback from their peers. Students prepared for their final presentations, wrote their bios and supported their peers. It was exciting to see students produce publications with such a … Continue reading MEMORY,HISTORY IN ZINES AND ARCHIVES – Week 5
ESL Week 2: On Saturday afternoon at the Queens library ESL students used a list of past tense verbs to write and talk about what they did during the week. Commonly used irregular and regular verbs that they changed to … Continue reading ESOL English as a Second Language – Week 2
