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Upcoming Exhibitions BEGGARS AND CHOOSERS: Curated by Rickie Solinger, award winning historian and author
This exhibition of 56 stunning prints by leading documentary photographers addresses current public policies on education, health care, housing, and incarceration sustain poverty in the U.S. By displaying photographs of women who occupy "reviled categories" – women too young, too poor, too gay, too disabled, too foreign, to be "legitimate mothers" – these images show women being mothers, with strength, dignity and determination, to stimulate new thinking about motherhood, public policy, media, and politics. The exhibition is accompanied by two photo-based books and "voice-text" panels with statements by the photographed subjects. Gallery talks, performances, readings and lectures will be held in conjunction with the exhibition. For information on all programs and schedules, please call the Museum at 718-997-4747, or visit www.qc.cuny.edu/godwin_ternbach Meditation on Contemporary Guest curated by Luchia M.H. Lee
Meditations on Contemporary Chinese Landscape, features the work of 10 artists from Beijing, Taiwan and Malaysia, working in a variety of media including painting, installation art, digital art and photography, to capture the spirit of the Chinese landscape in contemporary context by using modern visual language and idioms to express their ideas. Just as Chinese landscapes are meant to be true to nature but not pictorial, they are also meant to engage the viewer experientially. Celebrating this tradition, the gallery space will function as an interactive environment by means of a special installation that simulates the traditional Chinese painting’s journey and meditation through the landscape. At the opening reception, October 15, Yin Mei performs highlights from her recently choreographed dance event (Oct. 10-14, p. 9) with electronic music composed by QC students. Talks by scholars, artists and a Tao master also accompany the exhibition. For information on all programs and schedules, please call the Museum at 718-997-4747, or visit www.qc.cuny.edu/godwin_ternbach POWER TO THE PEACEFUL: Organized by Dr. Rikki Asher, Art Education
This exhibition of nine hand-crafted quilts on the theme of world peace has been organized by Queens College Art Education Professor Dr. Rikki Asher, recently returned from India where she worked with the Pardata Pardadi Educational Society, dedicated to the empowerment of rural village girls. Two quilts made by Pardada Pardadi teachers and 8th graders will be shown alongside three quilts by noted contemporary artist Faith Ringgold from her “Peace Story Quilts,” based on children's reactions to 9/11. Four other quilts were fabricated at the Omega Institute for Holistic Studies (Rhinebeck, NY), the Eleanor Roosevelt Community Center for Girls (Hyde Park, NY), and by students in the Queens College graduate Art Education program. The exhibition is augmented with photographs and videos documenting the production of the works, as well as banners made by the Indian students that highlight school activities such as reading, biking, and cricket. For information on this program and other schedules, please call the Museum at 718-997-4747, or visit www.qc.cuny.edu/godwin_ternbach WORKING THROUGH THE GREAT DEPRESSION: WPA Prints from the Godwin-Ternbach Museum Collection Guest curated by Marilyn L. Simon
This exhibition of 75 prints in all media – engravings, etchings, lithographs, and woodcuts – displays the talent and diversity of New York artists and presents their images of New York in the 1930s and its people at work and play. Views of the Queensboro Bridge, the World’s Fair, Greenwich Village and Coney Island are shown alongside scenes of New Yorkers at the automat, on rooftops and engaged in a myriad of other activities in the streets of New York. Working through the Great Depression presents selections from the gift of artworks distributed to tax-supported public institutions in 1943 when government funds were diverted to the war effort. Queens College, a recipient of this gift, received over 300 works from Audrey McMahon, the Project’s New York Regional Director and co-founder of the Art Project with the Museum of Modern art curator Holger Cahill. Gallery talks with the curators, a lecture series, music performances, and film series will be held in conjunction with the exhibition. For information on all programs and schedules, please call the Museum at 718-997-4747, or visit www.qc.cuny.edu/godwin_ternbach
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