Art and Archives: Creativity During COVID-19

How do art and archives intersect? In this roundtable discussion, member of the Queens College and NYC communities will discuss creative projects undertaken during COVID-19, and their connections to primary sources and archival repositories. Livestreamed on https://www.facebook.com/queensmemory.

Free

Thesis Show (A Pollicino)

Klapper Hall 65-30 Kissena Blvd, Queens, New York, United States

A Pollicino's thesis show will be on March 22nd at 6:30pm, at Queens College. Refreshments afterwards.

NON-LINEAR: QC MFA Annual Exhibition

Culture Lab LIC 5-25 46th Ave., Long Island City, New York, United States

The Queens College MFA Annual Exhibition 2022 includes all of this year's Social Practice CUNY Student Fellows. Opening reception: April 2, 6-9pm.

A Place To Lay My Head

SPCUNY Student Fellow Cristina Ferrigno's MFA thesis, April 26th-29th. Opening reception Tuesday April 26th, 7pm Klapper Hall Gallery, Queens College.

Flushing Town Hall Professional Development Workshop: Artists in the Community with SPCUNY alumnae!

Free professional development workshop presented in partnership with Flushing Town Hall. During this Zoom conversation, we will speak with artists from the Social Practice CUNY program, Naomi Kuo and Cristina Ferrigno, whose practices are based in working with the community and discuss best practices when connecting with people to create art and tell their stories. This will be a moderated conversation with space for Q&A.

Free

AntiBlackness in the Academy

Organized by Center for Ethnic Racial & Religious Understanding and co-sponsored by SPCUNY, this online conference will feature keynote Nikole Hannah-Jones and offer 8 workshops to examine what antiblackness is and provide participants tools to engage with it. This year's Innovation Exchange (2-day mini conference) will explore anti-Blackness within the academy. This conference stands on the shoulders of the work of scholars, artists and activists who graduated or worked at CUNY like Audre Lorde, Faith Ringgold, Toni Cade Bambara, Shirley Chisolm, and A. Phillip Randolph who came and demanded justice and dignity for Black people. During the Summer uprisings of 2020 students, faculty and staff saw messages of support from many universities, however much of the landscape of antiBlackness within the university often continued uninterrupted. This conference center Black people and is welcome to everyone and offers tools to address systemic antiBlackness in the academy and the necessary joy rituals that allow Black people to exist in the future.

Free

Shared Dialogue, Shared Space: An Alternative Manhattan Project (SDSS: AMP)

The Peninsula W 218th St and Indian Road, New York, NY, United States

The Shared Dialogue, Shared Space: An Alternative Manhattan Project (SDSS: AMP) invites nine artists/teams to present their community-oriented and thought-provoking participatory art, engaging the community in conversations on peace-building. The participating artists/teams include Stephanie Alvarado with Nancy Paredes, Eugenie Chao, Yeon Jin Kim, brandon king, Moses Ros, Minshik Shin, The Square Theater, and V Tineo. This outdoor participatory art project will be held at the peninsula and front side of Inwood Hill Park, Manhattan, on October 21st (PLEASE NOTE DATE CHANGE, due to rain) from 12–4 p.m.

Free