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arts services
INDEPENDENCE
ART BUILDS COMMUNITY
QUEENS
ARTS CONNECTION
Saturday, March 22, 2008,
1:00 - 6:30
p.m.
Queens Museum of Art, Flushing Meadows
Corona Park, Flushing
A networking event for artists and
cultural groups pooling the resources of
two dozen art services organizations.
Each organization will provide material
and answer questions on their services.
Highlights of the day include:
-Presentations on the New York
Foundation of the Arts Source database
and Instructions on How to Become a
Teaching Artist.
-Curators from the Queens Museum of
Art and other Queens arts organizations
will provide one-on-one portfolio
reviews for selected visual and
performing artists.
-Registrants will be offered the
opportunity to participate in a
slide/reel/poetry slam during which
peers will offer feedback on their work
in a public setting.
-There will be a live performance by a
Queens-based artist.
-The day will conclude with an informal
networking reception.
Schedule of Events
In the Café & Large Triangle Gallery,
1st Floor
1 - 3pm
Sign Up-registration & Informal
Networking
Browse Arts Service Organization
Tables
3:30 - 4:15pm
Dance in Queens, Application Seminar
with:
Paz Tanjuaquio, Topaz Arts & Hitomi
Iwasaki, Associate Curator QMA
4:30 - 6:30pm
Complementary Refreshments &
Informal Networking
Slide/Video/Reading Slam-share your
artwork with other participants
In the Theater, 2nd Floor
2 - 2:20pm
Welcome by presenting organizations:
Queens Museum of Art,
Queens Council on the Arts, & New York
Foundation for the Arts
2:20 - 2:45pm
Performance by Mahina Movement
Raffle of two $50 QMA gift shop
certificates
2:45 - 3:15pm
Linda Park presents New York
Foundation on the Arts Source tutorial
3:15 - 4:15pm
Gary Dayton, Arts in Education
Associate at New York State Council on
the Arts presents a workshop on "How to
Become a Teaching Artist"
Administration Office & Library, 2nd
Floor
4:30 - 6:30 pm
Portfolio Review for Visual & Video
Artists:
Hitomi Iwasaki, QMA Associate
Curator;
Erin Sickler, QMA Curatorial Assistant;
Herb Tam, Exit Art Curator
Cecilia Jurado, Y Gallery Curator
4:30 - 6:30pm
Portfolio Review
for Dancers with Paz Tanjuaquio, Topaz
Arts
Registration
To RSVP for the event or
pre-register for the portfolio reviews
or the peer-sharing slam please email
chenderson@queenscouncilarts.org .
You MUST clearly indicate in your
e-mail registration if you would like to
participate in the portfolio review or
the peer-sharing slam. UPDATE:
all slots for portfolio review are now
filled.
Participating
Organizations
Actor’s Fund of America
Alliance of Resident Theaters/New York
Asian American Arts Alliance
DanceNow NYC
DanceNYC
Downtown Community Television
Flushing Council on Culture and the Arts
Fractured Atlas
Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center
Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning
National Writers Union
New York Foundation for the Arts
Poets & Writers
Queens Council on the Arts
Queens Museum of Art
Shooting People
Studio in the School
The Field
Third World Newsreel
REGISTRATION
Admission is free. Registration is
required. Space is limited.
To register, please email your name,
address, telephone number, and artistic
discipline to
CHenderson@queenscouncilarts.org
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