The Artbuilt Mobile Studios at Avenue C Plaza will be celebrating the the end of the School Year Friday June 25th ! Saturday June 26th, Kite-making and flying with Jill Reiner of The Singing Winds. Sunday June 27th, Celebrating Immigrant Culture Concert.

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Saturday June 19th, Parade Masks & Puppets with Jill Reiner of The Singing Winds and Annie Ferdous of BIPA.

Sunday June 20th, Photo Portraits with Rathkopfs. All at Avenue C!

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Description goes hereSaturday June 12th El Mensajero Colibrí (Clay Hummbingbirds) & Sunday June 13th Printmaking Talavera (Mexican Tile) – with Cynthia Fortozo of Casa Cultural at Avenue C!

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Hello Staten Island waterfront! We are so pleased to be here with Labyrinth Arts Collective, Inc. for their ArtBuilt Mobile Studio in the Park artist residency “Walk This Way: Imagining My Staten Island”. Starting this week thru August 14, with an Open House on July 4th!

Making hojalatas with Casa Cultural/Cynthia Fortozo at Avenue C Plaza! Jun 16, 2019

Looking for herbs, vegetables and houseplants for your garden and windowsill? Join us at our first workshop of the season! Cultural Planing with Sue Braverman on Avenue C Plaza on Saturday June 1st 2019 @ 12-4pm!

Join us for these fun events all month long at the Avenue C Plaza, at McDonald Ave and Avenue C!

For google maps: located across the street from Desi Bazaar (557 McDonald Ave, Brooklyn NY 11218).

Image: ArtBuilt Mobile Studio in the Park 2018 resident Art Parley: Round Robin trilingual newspaper in Seward Park, Manhattan. goes here

ArtBuilt , in partnership with NYC Parks and the Queens Museum , is pleased to announce artists chosen for the collaborative project Studio in the Park, which received the Our Town grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) in 2017. ArtBuilt Studio in the Park is a six-week residency program that provides an artist or artist collective use of our 150-square-foot mobile studio

space in a public park for a community-engaged art project. Operating out of Flushing Meadows Corona Park since its inception in 2015, ArtBuilt Studio in the Park programming has expanded to all five boroughs of New York City in 2018 and 2019 with the help of this prestigious grant.

With support from community partners Staten Island Arts, Staten Island Urban Center, Canvas/Island Voice, YOUTHBuild Staten Island / JMT Media , Gowanus Canal Conservancy , Friends of Thomas Greene Park , Textile Arts Center , Arts Gowanus , Arts & Democracy , and NOCD-NY , the artists selected for the 2019 summer and fall seasons will occupy the mobile studio for a series of exciting and innovative new projects that tackle themes of identity, diversity and environmental justice. 2019 will see ArtBuilt Studio in the Park in Gowanus, Brooklyn and Stapleton, Staten Island.

ArtBuilt, in partnership with NYC Parks, Queens Museum, Staten Island Arts, Staten Island Urban Center, Canvas/Island Voice, YOUTHBuild Staten Island/JMT Media, Gowanus Canal Conservancy, Friends of Thomas Greene Park, Textile Arts Center, Arts Gowanus, and NOCD-NY is now accepting proposals for: Studio in the Park for summer and fall 2019.

Studio in the Park is a residency program operated since 2015 by Queens Museum, ArtBuilt and NYC Parks, providing an artist or artist collective use of a 150 square foot mobile studio space, situated in an NYC public park, to carry out a community-engaged art project over the course of 6 weeks. In 2019, project sites will be: Thomas Greene Park in Gowanus, Brooklyn; and Stapleton Waterfront Park in Stapleton, Staten Island.

The ArtBuilt Studio in the Park residency began in 2015 in partnership with the Queens Museum. With the receipt of a prestigious OUR TOWN grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), we will expand this residency to all five boroughs in 2018 and 2019.

Artist/s for Studio in the Park Residencies will be selected through an Open Call application process.

Deadline for application:
UPDATED! Now Monday, April 15, 2019 Announcement of selected proposals: Early May 2019 Artist Information Session: Friday, March 29, at 6-8pm Location: Textile Arts Center (505 Carroll St, Brooklyn NY, 11215) To RSVP, please email Emily Ahn Levy at emilyalevy@gmail.com

The information session will be live streamed and archived on Artbuilt’s Facebook page.

Dates of Residencies:
SESSION 1: Stapleton Waterfront ParkSchedule: July 1 – August 14, 2019Sat/Sun, July 13/14 – Opening EventSat/Sun August 10/11 – Culminating Event

SESSION 2: Thomas Greene ParkSchedule: August 15 – September 30, 201Sat/Sun August 24/25 – Opening EventSat/Sun Sept 28/29 – Culminating Event

About the Parks:

Stapleton Waterfront Park, connects the Stapleton neighborhood and surrounding neighborhoods in Staten Island with access to the waterfront. Opened in 2016, the Stapleton Waterfront Park was created as part of the multi-phase development of the Homeport, a 35-acre decommissioned U.S. Naval Base on the north shore of Staten Island. Built simultaneously with the neighboring housing and commercial development, the public park includes grass and landscaped areas, benches, water

fountains, a fish cleaning station, lit walkways, and a newly constructed tidal wetlands cove. Future phases of development will further encourage pedestrian and bicycle traffic in the Stapleton neighborhood, strengthen the area’s climate change resiliency, and facilitate connections to the formerly underutilized waterfront.

Thomas Greene Park, is located in the Gowanus neighborhood of Brooklyn,and is bounded by Third Avenue, and Nevins, DeGraw, and Douglass Streets. The playground is named after Thomas Greene (1911-1988), resident of Gowanus Houses who served as the president of the Tenant Association, and who was a dedicated community leader. This small neighborhood park is full of all sorts of sunny day activities for local families and people of all ages. Plentiful picnic tables make space for those eating or relaxing outdoors, while those who’d prefer to run around use the two basketball and four handball courts for more active recreation. In the summer, the adjoining outdoor Douglass-Degraw pool opens up for all the area’s swimmers to enjoy.

Studio in the Park is made possible the National Endowment for the Arts. Additional support provided by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

Image description: ArtBuilt Studio in the Park’s last weekend at FMCP – Nov 11 2018 at 3:00pm–5:00pm

Please join us on Sunday Nov 11th from from 3-5pm for the culminating celebration of ArtBuilt Studio in the Park’s community art project HamacaS by artist Liene Bosque. We will be serving refreshment, listening to Amazonian music, honoring the craft and sampling the hammocks.

Over the course of the past 5 weeks, community members, park visitors, and passerby of all ages, have contributed to this collective hammock weaving project to weave hammocks of various techniques. The final results will display hammocks made with Mayan weaving, knotted macrame, natural fibers, recycled plastic bags, decorated with tassels, and more.

For a final chance to participate in the weaving workshops, join us for drop in workshops this coming weekend: Sat Nov 10 + Sun Nov 11, 1 – 4pm.

Come weave with us at HamacaS this Sat Nov 3 and Sun Nov 4 @ 1-4pm at #CoronaPark in front of Queens Museum with #StudioInThePark artist-in-residence Liene Bosquê!

Starting on Saturday 10/6, the ArtBuilt Mobile Studios in the Park program will return to Flushing Meadows Corona Park with Queens Museum and New York City Department of Parks & Recreation and artist Liene Bosquê‘s project HamacaS for the next 6 weeks

HamacaS reflects the complex relationship of immigrants rebuilding a life in a new country without leaving their own culture behind. Liene Bosquê’s piece views hammocks as a central element symbolic of Latin American culture, and a starting point to discuss recent immigrant issues, cultural diversity and neighborhood change. HamacaS will be an interactive installation of looms and hand-woven hammocks that aims to capture the physical and emotional displacement experienced by immigrants in the United States. It will consist of free English and Spanish language workshops in which participants engage in a collective hammock weaving installation. The hammock installation will act as a safe and healing space for the participants by reconnecting them with process of making something by hand and offering a space to lay down. The goal of HamacaS is to foment the discussion on issues of immigration and resilience and its relation to art.

With behind-the-scenes photos of his “Nueva Bronx: 21st Century Families” project with the Studio in the Park program in partnership with ArtBuilt Mobile Studios, Queens Museum, and New York City Department of Parks & Recreation.

For the last three weeks (Aug 17 - Sept 9th 2018), David Flores has brought #FREE family portraiture to the neighborhood with on-site photography, printing, display and digital sharing. Participants leave with a large format print of themselves, free of charge through September 29!

Flores’ project is his response to recent nationalist movements that have attempted to remove and erase familial representations of immigrants, promoting a racist, xenophobic and criminalized gaze on newcomers to the United States. “Nueva Bronx: 21st Century Families” pushes back against this flawed lens by celebrating and promoting the image of families.

Project partners include WHEDco, The DreamYard Project, and The Bronx Defenders.

Photos by David Flores and ArtBuilt.

This week (July 25), we will be starting with a free writing exercise, followed by a collaborative poetry activity. From 7:15 onward, we invite young adults to meet with our workshop facilitators for individual consultation. Bring your ideas, questions, and drafts, and we’ll help you find ways forward in the writing and editing process.**

Summer Writing Workshop for Young Adults in Two Bridges Chinatown & Lower East Side!

Are you interested in creative writing? Explore the stories you want to tell at a free, weekly writing workshop led by writer & journalist, Kelly Chan and artist duo Art Parley. Every Wednesday for 6 weeks, we invite you to come hang-out, eat snacks, and help us make a shared literary space at our mobile studio parked outside Seward Park Library. Writing produced in our workshops will be considered for publication through Round Robin, New York City’s first trilingual community newspaper!

~Free~ July 11• July 18 • July 25 • August 1• August 8 • August 15. Wednesday Evenings 6-7:30 pm.

Snacks & 2-way metro cards will be provided

Brought to you by Art Parley + Hamilton-Madison House

Find us @ the Studio in the Park

Left of the entrance to the Seward Park Library

夏日青年写作教室

位于纽约下东区以及中国城两桥区域

您对创意写作感兴趣吗？快来参加每周免费的写作教室吧，和作家&记者Kelly Chan以及艺术家双人组“艺术洽谈”一起探索你想要诉说的故事。 在接下来的六周里，每个礼拜三我们都会在Seward Park苏厄德公园图书馆门外停放一辆移动工作室，并且邀请您来我们的工作室一起消磨时间、享用点心、以及协助我们创造一个文学共享的空间

~免费~ 七月十一日 • 七月十八日 • 七月二十五日 • 八月一日 • 八月八日 • 八月十五日

每周三晚上六点至七点半

“艺术洽谈”以及汉密尔顿-麦迪逊之家给您带来：

参与即可享受免费点心以及往返地铁卡:)

我们位于Seward Park苏厄德公园的工作室

入口处左转

Taller de escritura de Verano para jóvenes adultos en Two Bridges (Dos Puentes), Chinatown (Barrio Chino), y Lower East Side (Bajo Este de Manhattan)

¿Estás interesado en escribir escritura creativa? Explora las historias que desea contar en un taller de escritura semanal y gratuito dirigido por la escritora y periodista Kelly Chan junto a dúo con Artista Arte Parley. Todos los Miércoles durante 6 semanas, lo invitamos a pasar el rato, comer bocadillos y ayudarnos a crear un espacio para compartir literatura en nuestro estudio móvil estacionado afuera de la Biblioteca del Parque Seward.

~Gratis~ Julio 11, Julio 18, Julio 25, Agosto 1, Agosto 8, Agosto 15. Todos los miércoles de 6pm a 7:30pm.

Bocadillos y Transporte de dos vías serán dado

Traído por: Arte Parley Y Casa de Hamilton Madison

Encuentranos en @ The Studio in the Park

A la izquierda de la entrada a la Biblioteca del Parque Seward

We invite local residents and immigrants to the launch of the trilingual newspaper project, Round Robin, in Seward Park with resident artists Art Parley, an art collective formed by Sue Jeong Ka and Mélissa Emily Liu!

Come by during Art Parley’s Open Studio hours to learn about the next six weeks of activities and workshops around Round Robin, an ongoing socially-engaged project to build spaces for cross-cultural solidarity and understanding through storytelling, conversation, and empathy resonant to participants from diasporic communities in #Chinatown, #LES, and #TwoBridges.

The Round Robin Neighborhood Archive and Library will be available during all Open Studio hours, activities, and workshops. Come read the first ever trilingual issues of Round Robin along with other collected materials related to issues of immigration and gentrification.

Location: Seward Park, next to the NYPL building (192 East Broadway, New York, NY 10002)
Dates & Hours: July 3 – August 15, 2018
Tuesdays and Wednesdays: 3pm-9pm,
Saturdays and Sundays: 12-6pm

In partnership with: ArtBuilt Mobile Studios, Queens Museum, New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, https://lmcc.net/Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Immigrant Social Services, Inc., Seward Park Conservancy, Seward Park Branch, NYPL. With support from: National Endowment for the Arts, Surdna Foundation, and The New York Community Trust.

ArtBuilt, in partnership with NYC Parks, and the Queens Museum, is pleased to announce artists chosen for the collaborative project Studio in the Park, which received the Our Town grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) last summer. ArtBuilt Studio in the Park is a six-week residency program that provides an artist or artist collective use of our 150-square-foot mobile studio space in a public park for a community-engaged art project. Operating out of Flushing Meadows Corona Park since its inception in 2015, ArtBuilt Studio in the Park will now be able to expand to all five boroughs of New York City in 2018 and 2019 with the help of this prestigious grant.

With support from The Women’s Housing and Economic Development Corporation (WHEDco), DreamYard, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC), Seward Park Conservancy, and Immigrant Social Services (ISSNYC), the artists selected for the 2018 summer and fall seasons will alternate occupying the mobile studio for a series of exciting and innovative new projects that tackle themes of immigration, neighborhood change, and cultural heritage. 2018 will see ArtBuilt Studio in the Park in Manhattan, the Bronx and Queens, and in 2019, Brooklyn and Staten Island. While the projects for 2019 will be announced next year, this year’s resident artists and specific park sites are listed below:

Art Parley (Sue Jeong Ka & Melissa Liu): “Round Robin”
July 1 – August 15, 2018, Seward Park, Lower Manhattan

“Round Robin” started as a free trilingual newspaper in Chinese, English, and Spanish. This summer, the “Round Robin” newspaper will come to life in the form of a collaborative forum for self-empowered leadership, cross cultural solidarity, and language access. Art Parley invites all immigrants and local residents to participate in this forum through in-person summer workshops to create a network of communication channels and platform involving creative forms of expression in the LES/Two Bridges/Chinatown neighborhoods. The project is based on the concept of a protest document that conceals individual identities through collective participation, allowing contributors to raise their voices freely and honestly even if they are in a precarious position due to circumstances such as immigration status. Project partners include nonprofit settlement house Hamilton-Madison House, LMCC, Seward Park Conservancy and The Museum of Chinese in America.

David Flores: “Nueva Bronx: 21st Century Families”
August 15 – September 30, 2018, Railroad Park in Morrisania, Bronx

“Nueva Bronx: 21st Century Families” aims to show that family, in all of its beautiful forms, stands as a cornerstone of the human experience, creating intersections between past, present and future and simultaneously weaving larger connections in the community. David Flores will bring free family portraiture to Railroad Park and the greater Morrisania neighborhood with on-site photography, printing, display and digital sharing. Parents, children, elders, extended family and friends are all encouraged to participate in the making of formal images and leave with a large format print of themselves, free of charge. Flores’ project is his response to recent nationalist movements that have attempted to remove and erase familial representations of immigrants, promoting a racist, xenophobic and criminalized gaze on new comers to the United States. “Nueva Bronx: 21st Century Families” pushes back against this flawed lens by celebrating and promoting the image of families. Project partners include WHEDco and DreamYard.

Liene Bosque: “HamacaS”

October 1 – November 15, 2018, Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens

“HamacaS” reflects the complex relationship of immigrants rebuilding a life in a new country without leaving their own culture behind. Liene Bosque’s piece views hammocks as a central element symbolic of Latin American culture, and a starting point to discuss recent immigrant issues, cultural diversity and neighborhood change. “HamacaS” will be an interactive installation of looms and hand-woven hammocks that aims to capture the physical and emotional displacement experienced by immigrants in the United States. It will consist of free English and Spanish language workshops in which participants engage in a collective hammock weaving installation. The hammock installation will act as a safe and healing space for the participants by reconnecting them with process of making something by hand and offering a space to lay down. The goal of “HamacaS” is to foment the discussion on issues of immigration and resilience and its relation to art. Project partners include the Queens Museum.

A beautiful day of kite making and kite flying @ the @Avenue C Plaza!!! Never has our love for NYC been stronger than these dark days. #immigrantSTRONG

Giant thanks to Jill and The Singing Winds, and our beloved partners Arts & Democracy, the Kensington Stewards, Brad Landers (and all the amazing folks in his office), and New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.

Over 200 people came to our Community Iftar @ Avenue C Plaza!!!! what a blessing to break the fast with so many wonderful friends and neighbors and with food from so many amazing places: Nigeria, Turkey, Yemen, Uzbekistan, Indonesia and Bangladesh!!! Big Thanks to our partners Arts & Democracy, @ The Brookyn Historical Society, Brad Lander, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs , and of course our Kensington neighbors + The Kensington Stewards

June is Immigrant Culture Month at Avenue C Plaza in Kensington, Brooklyn! ArtBuilt is proud and happy to be back in the plaza for our third year of awesome arts and culture programming in collaboration with amazing local teaching artists! Check out our lineup of events!

OPEN CALL
DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS EXTENDED: Monday, April 30th, 2018 (5:00PM EST)

ArtBuilt, in partnership with NYC Parks, Queens Museum, The Women’s Housing and Economic Development Corporation (WHEDco), DreamYard, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC), Seward Park Conservancy, and Immigrant Social Services (ISSNYC), is now accepting proposals for: Studio in the Park for summer and fall 2018.

Studio in the Park is a residency program operated since 2015 by Queens Museum, ArtBuilt and NYC Parks, providing an artist or artist collective use of a 150 square foot mobile studio space, situated in an NYC public park, to carry out a community engaged art project over the course of 6 weeks. In 2018, project sites will be: Seward Park in Lower Manhattan; Railroad Park in Morrisania, Bronx; and Flushing Meadows Corona Park (adjacent to Queens Museum).

The ArtBuilt Studio in the Park residency began in 2015 in partnership with the Queens Museum. With the receipt of a prestigious OUR TOWN grant from the NEA, we will expand this residency to all five boroughs in 2018 and 2019.

Artist/s for Studio in the Park Residencies will be selected through an Open Call application process.

Deadline for Application (EXTENDED): Monday, April 30th, 2018 (5:00PM EST)

Announcement of selected proposals: May 2018

Dates of Residencies:

Session 1
Seward Park
July 1 – August 15, 2018

Session 2
Railroad Park
August 15 – September 30, 2018

Session 3
Flushing Meadows Corona Park
(adjacent to Queens Museum)
October 1 – November 15, 2018

More information about the participating parks here.

Artists are welcome to propose projects that align with their existing practice, and also demonstrate alignment with the issue areas below:

IMMIGRATION
Project should serve the diverse immigrant communities that surround the park, which have become threatened by a climate of increasing xenophobia and shifting immigration enforcement. Preference will be given to projects that not only create a dignified and safe environment for immigrant families, but also involve creative forms of service provision or referral, immigrant rights and legal education, risk reduction, tools for emergency planning, and/or engage the general public in ways they can actively support immigrants’ human rights.

NEIGHBORHOOD CHANGE
Project should address ways in which neighborhoods adjacent to park are changing in response to rising rents and property values. How can existing communities respond to displacement of lower income residents by more affluent newcomers? As existing local businesses and amenities change to cater to new residents, who benefits? What rights do existing residents have to their communities? What obligations do newcomers have to their new communities? How can residents with decades of history in the neighborhood continue to shape local culture in the face of rapid change?

CULTURAL HERITAGE
Project should connect with the (often varied) cultural traditions of communities surrounding the park. Who are local residents and where do they come from? Are their voices part of the local narrative? In a time when immigration has taken center stage, how can migrant communities express pride in their cultural practices? What role can artistic expression play in maintaining and preserving the cultural heritage – traditions, customs, legacy, foods, language – of diverse cultural groups for future generations? How can an art project help foster cultural appreciation, community engagement, and neighborhood pride?

GENERAL
Artists are welcome to propose projects that align with their existing practice, but which also connect to the local community in a real way. Examples might include: Relationships among and between different groups in the neighborhood; facilitating community dialogue through art-based strategies; issues of connectivity (community connection); building intergenerational communication and learning. Artists should feel free to propose any project that meaningfully connects with the neighborhood.

The resident will be provided:
A mobile studio space for 4-6 weeks situated next to the artist’s assigned park. The light-filled mobile studio offers electricity, air conditioning, wi-fi (site dependent), and ample wall space.

A total stipend of $3000 inclusive of art materials

Support from ArtBuilt, Queens Museum, NYC Parks, and project partners for public engagement, event production and promotion.

The resident will commit to:
A minimum of 15 hours studio work per week, including at least one weekend day per week

Public access to studio during predetermined times

Collaborating on a minimum of 2-4 public programs during the residency with community partners

Selection:
In consultation with local stakeholders, a panel of arts professionals will review applications and select residency participants. The panel will include Queens Museum staff, ArtBuilt staff, and NYC Parks public art staff. Selections will be announced in early May 2018.

Eligibility:
Artists who are working in painting, drawing, sculpture, printmaking, photography, multimedia, installation, public art, participatory art, socially-engaged art and arts-based research, performance-based visual expression, folk and traditional cultural practice.

Artists who are residents of New York City—from any of the five boroughs—and who have resided in the City for at least one year prior to the application deadline. Artists must reside in NYC during the entire residency period.

Throughout his WHAT IS WILD? Mobile Studio in a Park residency, artist Eric Magnus is engaging communities of park users in creating and sharing meaningful digital recordings of the nature found in the urban wilderness of Flushing Meadows Corona Park. The residency program, developed by Queens Museum and ArtBuilt provides an artist or artist collective use of a 150 square foot mobile studio space situated on the lawn between the Museum and the iconic Unisphere. Eric’s ongoing media arts project is going to culminate in a final display of work scheduled for August 13th from 3 – 5 pm, with other public events scheduled throughout the six week residency.

On Wednesday we celebrated Summer Dayz with dancing, music, and art activities. Thank you Kensington for such a great kick off to the summer and to the Kensington Stewards for hosting such a fun event. Thank you also to Arts & Democracy, Spaceworks, New York City Council, NYC DOT and Neighborhood Plaza Partnership!

June 27th : This weekend’s Kite and Boat Making Workshops with Jill Reinier of The Singing Winds were a huge success thanks to the beautiful weather and the beautiful community of Kensington residents who came out to join us! Big thanks to Council Member Brad Lander for stopping by to help us fly some kites and to our co-sponsors Arts & Democracy, Avenue C Plaza, Spaceworks, NYC DOT, Neighborhood Plaza Partnership, New York City Council! Visit our Events Gallery for today’s photos!

Despite Saturday morning’s heavy downpour, we had a great turnout and a great time at the ArtBuilt Mobile Studio parked on Avenue C Plaza. We discussed BPL’s Summer Reading program, decorated frames and candles with henna, glitter and paint, and created huge beautiful drawings. Sunday’s art workshop was also a huge success with participants creating dazzling Oaxacan frames and mirrors to bring home. Thank you to the New York City Council Cultural Immigrant Initiative + Council Member Council Member Brad Lander!! As well as to our partners Arts & Democracy , Spaceworks FABNYC, Neighborhood Plaza Partnership, and NYC Dot!

Our two-part Alebrijes sculpture workshop was a huge success thanks to teaching artist Cynthia Fortozo and all the great Kensington residents who came out to create with us at Avenue C Plaza. Saturday we built and Sunday we painted. Special thanks to the New York City Council Cultural Immigrant Initiative + Council Member Brad Lander!! And partners Arts & Democracy, Spaceworks, FABNYC, Neighborhood Plaza Partnership!

The Kensington Stewards are pleased to announce a summer of fun programming and public events taking place in the newly renovated Avenue C Plaza, at the intersection of Avenue C and McDonald Avenue during June and July 2017

The season will kick off on June 2nd with Immigrant Culture Month at Avenue C, a month of public arts programming co-produced with ArtBuilt and Arts & Democracy, and focused on the cultural traditions and experiences of immigrant communities in the Kensington area.

Based out of the ArtBuilt Mobile Studio, a beautifully designed artist studio on wheels, events will spread out into the plaza as weather permits. Building on ArtBuilt’s inaugural season at Avenue C Plaza in June 2016, this year’s events will once again feature local teaching artists from Kensington, and will include public art-making workshops, Bengali poetry and singing classes, Oaxacan craft-making, creative writing workshops, a gardening workshop exploring plants from different cultures, hands-on henna art, and much more!

QUEENS MUSEUM, ARTBUILT, AND NYC PARKS
AWARDED $150,000 GRANT BY THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS TO BRING THE ARTBUILT MOBILE STUDIO IN THE PARK PROJECT TO PARKS AND COMMUNITIES CITYWIDE

Queens, NY (June 15, 2017) — The National Endowment of the Arts (NEA) has approved the Queens Museum, in partnership with ArtBuilt and NYC Parks, for an Our Town grant of $150,000. Eighty-nine awards will be granted by the NEA that total $6.89 million, which will support art projects across the nation through the NEA’s Our Town program. The Queens Museum is the only museum in New York City to receive the Our Town grant, which will be applied towards supporting the project: ArtBuilt Mobile Studio in the Park: Arts and Culture Residencies in New York City Parks.

ArtBuilt Mobile Studio in the Park will deliver dynamic arts and culture programming to NYC parks in underserved communities in each of NYC’s five boroughs: Flushing Meadows Corona Park (Queens); Seward Park (Manhattan); Brower Park (Brooklyn); Faber Park (Staten Island); and Railroad Park (Bronx). The project will begin on August 1, 2017 and conclude on July 31, 2019. Using mobile art studios, which are small workspaces that let artists work in new ways and in unexpected public places, ArtBuilt Mobile Studio in the Park is designed to help NYC Parks deliver community-engaged arts and culture programming to NYC neighborhoods where existing infrastructure can’t meet community needs.

“We are very honored to have been approved for this generous award, and are incredibly grateful for the NEA’s unwavering support of the arts community.” said Laura Raicovich, Executive Director of the Queens Museum. “One of our most important goals is to increase accessibility to the arts and ArtBuilt Mobile Studio in the Park is a perfect vehicle to do that.”

“Artbuilt is tremendously energized by the NEA’s announcement of this award. We’ve always believed deeply in the effectiveness of using our mobile studios to transform NYC’s public spaces into venues for public arts engagement, and we’ve been thrilled at the power of combining this simple idea with exceptional partners like Queens Museum and NYC Parks” said ArtBuilt Co-Executive Directors Esther Robinson and Guy Buckles, “In an era of often-constrained public resources, it is a unique privilege to be given this opportunity to expand great arts programming to the NYC neighborhoods that want and need it most”

Our Town is the NEA’s signature creative placemaking program that supports partnerships of artists, arts organizations, and municipal government that work to revitalize neighborhoods.

This practice places the arts at the table with land-use, transportation, economic development, education, housing, infrastructure, and public safety strategies to address a community’s challenges. “The arts reflect the vision, energy, and talent of America’s artists and arts organizations,” said NEA Chairman Jane Chu. “The National Endowment for the Arts is proud to support organizations such as the Queens Museum, to cultivate vitality in their communities through the arts.”

“This innovative new partnership bringing mobile artist studios to community parks is a fantastic way to expand access to quality arts programming for every New Yorker,” said Cultural Affairs Commissioner Tom Finkelpearl. “By placing working, professional artists in parks in all five boroughs, ArtBuilt and Queens Museum will build on the role these spaces play as our public commons and community hubs. We have initiated a range of new collaborations with our partner City agencies, and we are excited to expand on our work with the Parks Department to bring cultural activities to open spaces throughout New York City. We also thank the NEA for its ongoing support of programming that benefits communities across the country that need it most.”

“Public art should be accessible to all, and thanks to the NEA for our first ever Arts Our Town Grant, NYC Parks will be able to amplify our long standing partnership with the Queens Museum and ArtBuilt,” said NYC Parks Commissioner Mitchell J. Silver, FAICP. “When we have the resources needed to continue offering high quality arts and cultural programming in our parks and public spaces, we can change lives and create more vibrant communities. Now more than ever, it is crucial that we put our support behind the arts, and Parks is proud to be able to do so through our Art in the Parks program, now in its 50th year.”

To join the Twitter conversation about this announcement, please use #NEASpring17.

About the Queens Museum

The Queens Museum in Flushing Meadows Corona Park features contemporary art, events of hyperlocal and international impact, and educational programs reflecting the diversity of Queens and New York City. Changing exhibitions present the work of emerging and established artists, both local and global, that often explore contemporary social issues, as well as the rich history of its site. In November 2013, the Museum reopened with an expanded footprint of 105,000 square feet, a soaring skylit atrium, a suite of daylight galleries, nine artist studios, and flexible event space. The Museum works outside its walls through engagement initiatives ranging from multilingual outreach and educational opportunities for adult immigrants, to a plethora of community led art and activism projects. The Museum’s educational programming connects with schoolchildren, teens, families, seniors as well as those individuals with physical and mental disabilities. The Queens Museum is located on property owned in full by the City of New York, and its operation is made possible in part by public funds provided through the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.

Visit www.queensmuseum.org. Follow us at @queensmuseum.

About the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA)

The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA) is dedicated to supporting and strengthening New York City’s vibrant cultural life. DCLA works to promote and advocate for quality arts programming and to articulate the contribution made by the cultural community to the City’s vitality. The Department represents and serves nonprofit cultural organizations involved in the visual, literary, and performing arts; public-oriented science and humanities institutions including zoos, botanical gardens, and historic and preservation societies; and creative artists at all skill levels who live and work within the City’s five boroughs. DCLA also provides donated materials for arts programs offered by the public schools and cultural and social service groups, and commissions permanent works of public art at City-funded construction projects throughout the five boroughs.

About the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation (NYC Parks)

In 2017 NYC Parks’ Art in the Parks program celebrates 50 years of bringing contemporary public artworks to the city’s parks, making New York City one of the world’s largest open-air galleries. The agency has consistently fostered the creation and installation of temporary public art in parks throughout the five boroughs. Since 1967, NYC Parks has collaborated with arts organizations and artists to produce over 2,000 public artworks by 1,300 notable and emerging artists in over 200 parks. For more information about the program visit www.nyc.gov/parks/art.

About the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)

Established by Congress in 1965, the NEA is the independent federal agency whose funding and support gives Americans the opportunity to participate in the arts, exercise their imaginations, and develop their creative capacities. Through partnerships with state arts agencies, local leaders, other federal agencies, and the philanthropic sector, the NEA supports arts learning, affirms and celebrates America’s rich and diverse cultural heritage, and extends its work to promote equal access to the arts in every community across America. For more information, visit www.arts.gov.

We are thrilled to have new artist resident’s Brooklyn Hi! Art Machine join us, in partnership with the Brooklyns Children’s Museum, in Brower Park!

Mildred Beltre and Oasa Duverney, the Brooklyn Hi-Art! Machine, will be working on a second edition of their Guide to Tenants Rights and Community Activities.

In addition to updated tenant information the guide will feature stories of the effects of gentrification on individual lives. They will also create a fence weaving!

Throughout their residency they will also host community events:

Sunday, August 21

Gavin Cato bike repair event and bike giveaway.

Community members are invited to bring their bicycles for a free tune up. We will also have up to 6 refurbished bicycles to give away to anyone that needs them. 12-6pm

Saturday, September 3rd

Working Mothers Labor Day Celebration

Join the BK Hi-Art Machine in celebrating all mothers and their endless labor. We will have treats and art activities. 4-6pm.

Tenant rights lawyer visiting hours

Drop in and ask the tenants rights lawyer your housing questions! First Come First

ServedSeptember 10th and September 17th.

DescriptionWe had a fantastic day at the mobile studio @Ave C Plaza! We installed the fantastic Kensington Community Banners that were comprised of all the great photos we took in the Creative Impact Photo Studio (courtesy of the great teen photographers from the Village Of Arts and Humanities in Philly!) goes here

Packed room only for our first ever workshop at the ArtBuilt Mobile Studio at Ave C Plaza. So excited to bring poetry to the public spaces of NYC. Gabriel and Shahana led an AMAZING workshop . Big thanks to everyone that came out and the great work that Urban Word does every day!

For the month of June, the Bangladesh Institute of Performing Arts / BIPA is offering free classes in the mobile studio. And last night was the first one!

Thursdays, June 9, 16, 23 and Tuesday June 28 –– 4:15 – 6:30 PM

Bangla singing class with Nilofar Jahan (4:15- 5:15)/ Bangla

Language class with Annie Ferdous (5:15-6:30 PM )

It was so lovely we held the language class outside!

Day Two of our plaza deploy! We had our first ever RIBBON CUTTING with City Councilperson Brad Lander and the fantastic Kensington Neighbors…. We also took great photos of our visitors in the Creative Impact Photo Studio (brought to you by our friends at the Village of Arts and Humanities ), made great art (which will be installed in the plaza on June 11th), beat the weather forecast and had a super fun time!

Our first day of programming at the Ave C Plaza in Kensington Brooklyn! Today we welcomed two arts projects:

Creative Impact Portrait Studio which documents and shares the unique faces and diverse gifts of the Kensington community. On June 4 and 5, community residents are invited to pose for their portraits (first come first served) inside the Mobile Studio while answering the question, “What is your gift—a talent or skill—you can give to your neighborhood?” Each individual or group will receive a printed copy of their photograph. The collection of photographs will be shared in real time, on social media, and printed on large vinyl banners that will decorate the plaza. The Photo Studio is a way for the Kensington community to engage with itself across age or social boundaries, showcasing how a community’s individual strengths are exponentially more powerful when mobilized as a whole.

Neighborland/ I want ____ in Kensington Is a participatory visual way for community members to discuss what they’d like to see in their neighborhood. Supported by Council District 39’s Participatory Budgeting office, the project asks neighbors to share ideas about amenities, improvements, programming or infrastructure they wish Kensington could have. Written on a large signboard or on paper flyers displayed around the plaza, these community-sourced ideas help Kensington residents imagine the changes they want to see, and (through Participatory Budgeting), give them a way to make those changes happen.

Come join us at Avenue C and McDonald Ave for arts and culture programming all June!

First Up: The Creative Impact Photo Studio with our partners at The Village of Art and Humanities. We will be taking pictures of neighborhood residents and asking the question: “what is your gift?” stay tuned for what we find and for a schedule of events!

What a great day in May! We met a million great people and also got to share about the artist residencies we are doing in NYC parks!! and show great images about what happens when you put the mobile studio + art into our great parks…..(May 24 2016)

April 2016: We are so excited to announce that the residents of Brooklyn Council District 39 have chosen the ArtBuilt Mobile Studios in their Participatory Budgeting Process!!! So now the Gowanus Neighborhood will have THREE studios to use for arts and environmental programs in all the underused spaces!

We’ll be at: THE POINT (6 train to Hunts Point Ave, walk under the Bruckner, then turn right on Garrison Ave)

Starting at 11:00 am the mobile studio will be having an open house! Come say hello and check out the studio… or at 3pm come see:

Making Cultural Production Visible: Mobile Print Power and the ArtBuilt Mobile Studio

Artist Patrick Rowe, representing multi-generational printmaking collective Mobile Print Power (MPP), will present a workshop exploring MPP’s work and the experience of using the ArtBuilt Mobile Studio as a platform for publicly-engaged art-making.

Saturday July 11 the ArtBuilt Studio in the Park was the eye of a perfect storm of art, dance music, and community fun! Resident artist Patrick Rowe and awesome art collective Mobile Print Power took over our little corner of Flushing Meadows Corona Park to celebrate the culmination of their People’s Design Laboratory project, with music and performances by Danza Azteca Chichimeka (Aztec Dance) and Ñukanchik Llakta Wawa Kunas-Wawas Sumags (Ecuadorian Dance).

Visitors had an opportunity to learn how to screen print using Mobile Print Power’s mobile screen printing cart, and to take home custom prints on tote bags, t-shirts and more.

During the festivities, Mobile Print Power unveiled the new concepts for signs for the park that they’d created based on drawings and ideas shared by park-goers over the last month – People’s Design Laboratory spent four weeks gathering creative input from park-goers, creating signage concepts from that input, and printing up the beautiful signs presented at Saturday’s event. Next step: Using these designs to advocate for an innovative new signage system for the park.

All told, it was an amazing event – any day that includes an Aztec blessing and a public procession to distribute community-developed signs across the park is a pretty awesome day!

JUN 27 2015
12:00PM–5:30PM

…Come tour the Mobile Studio with Guy @ 11:30- 2:30pm and see Esther on the Ownership Panel (3:30-4:30) at the STAY IN NY CONFERENCE @ the Queens Museum!

Stay in New York, is an affordable workspace conference that aims to give New Yorkers the tools to help create better neighborhoods, find and keep their rents low, and even purchase real estate and studio space.

STAY IN NEW YORK: AN AFFORDABLE WORKSPACE CONFERENCE @ QUEENS MUSEUM

Join Mobile Print Power in Flushing Meadows Corona Park for a day of printmaking, collaborative drawing, music, and dancing! This event will take at the People’s Design laboratory inside the ArtBuilt Mobile Studio. People of all ages are invited to come by and learn how to screen print using Mobile Print Power’s mobile screen printing cart! Participants will also create drawings based on their experiences in Flushing Meadows Corona Park. These drawings will help generate unique ideas for park signs!

Mobile Print Power is a multi-generational print collective based out of Immigrant Movement International in Corona, Queens. The People’s Design laboratory is a research center for the development of unique navigational signage using collaborative and participatory design strategies. The signage concepts developed at the People’s Design Laboratory will capture the spirit of the park and will be created by the park community through a series of participatory events and open studio hours.

June 24th 2015! Artist Patrick Rowe and the Mobile Print Collective move into the studio!

After our brief time that the Ideas City Festival, we now head to the Queens Museum and Flushing Meadow Corona Park. This summer ArtBuilt, along with the New York City Parks Department and the Queens Museum, will offer two artists the opportunity to have back-to-back residencies in Flushing Meadow Corona park adjacent to the museum for July and August.

…stay tuned for word on the artists and their open studio hours so you can come and say hi and see the studio!

The ArtBuilt Mobile Studio Team along with current resident artists, People’s Paper Co-op, arrives in NYC for the Ideas City Festival, at the New Museum. A great day of meeting folks, spreading the word about mobile studios, and introducing the co-op and the expungement clinics to the denizens of New York City!

Come check out the mobile studio on Saturday May 30th from 12:00 PM – 6:00 PM @ the NEW MUSEUM. We’ll be on Bowery, mid-block below Houston. Also showcasing the work of our fantastic Philly partners The Peoples Paper Co-op and The Village of Arts and Humanities— including artwork, paper products, and workshops!

ArtPlace Summit comes to Philly and the grantees and funders have a site visit. Check out these fun pics of the day! …. with a special thanks to Seth Beattie and Jayson Smart for photographs….

April 15 2015! Hyperallergic posts a GREAT and FUN article, by Allison Meier on the ArtBuilt Mobile Studios!

Calling all NYC artists!

Who wants to spend 4 weeks this summer making art in a mobile studio in Flushing Meadows Corona Park?

ArtBuilt Mobile Studios is partnering with Queens Museum to offer this residency opportunity to 2 artists (one starting mid-June, one starting mid-July) who are interested in engaging with Parks visitors. DEADLINE to apply MAY 15!

Stay tuned for more news from People’s Paper Co-op Residency…