Alistandonos para Mapear En esta quinta sesión de mapeando nos vamos alistando para contar nuestras historias. La música vino acompañada de folclore, donde a través de videos pudimos reconocer elementos culturales y paisajes lejanos y familiares. Con nuestras dos piezas … Continue reading NNY Mapeando – Week 5
The attached writings are the result of the first week of the creative writing workshop. Group Surrealist poems The clouds are white. The baby tree kangaroo went inside its mommy’s pouch. Her shirt was feeling particularly itchy until she realized … Continue reading NNY Creative Writing Seminar – Week 1
Sesión # 4 De colores… En esta sesión Mapeando se llenó de colores y murmullos al acoger a niños que hoy no tuvieron clases en escuelas públicas. La música se prestó como puente intergeneracional en la que participantes de todas … Continue reading Mapeando – week 4
Fotos y texto: Niceli Postugal
Empezando a Mapear En nuestra segunda sesión comenzamos a mapear. Los participantes visitaron el mapa mundial para relacionarse con el trayecto físico que cruzaron para llegar a New York y empezaron la producción de la representación del lugar de donde … Continue reading NNY Mapeando – week 2
El Porqué En esta primera sesión contamos con 15 participantes que llegaron al Queens Museum buscando un lugar donde compartir sus historias de inmigracion. Los participantes se movilizaron desde diversas partes de la ciudad de Nueva York siendo la mayoría … Continue reading NNY Mapeando – Week 1
Lesson 6: A Letter to New York In this final class, we continued our discussion of changing neighborhoods and exploring our personal memories and family photographs in conjunction with how neighborhoods look now on Google Maps. We went around Astoria … Continue reading NNY INTERDISCIPLINARY WORKSHOP SERIES – WEEK 6
Lesson 5: Neighborhood Photo Assignment NNY blog post In this class, we shared and talked about our work from the previous weeks. We looked at some beautiful doodles both hand-drawn, like Lori’s, and some created by using digital drawing programs, … Continue reading NNYS INTERDISCIPLINARY WORKSHOP SERIES – WEEK 5
Lesson 4: Food Zine Collage Workshop What’s a Zine?? Well, it’s short for magazine, and It is a new-ish medium that is part of a DIY and self-publishing art scene and as such are somewhat affiliated with the contemporary punk … Continue reading NNYs Interdisciplinary Workshop Series – week 4
Lesson 3: Non-Traditional Self Portraits This week we learned a bit about the Golden Ratio in our bodies and in art. I demonstrated this by showing the proportions of a head. I will be leaving the reference photos I showed … Continue reading NYC: SIGNS AND SYMBOLS OF IDENTITY – WEEK 3