UPCOMING EVENTS
Artist Talk
Thursday, November 14, 2024 at 5:00 pm
Join us for an Artist Talk with New York based interdisciplinary artist, Marcus Manganni. In the Spring of 2024, Manganni was a visiting artist in the Art Department of Queens College where he produced a work in bronze utilizing the foundry. The work is now part of the museum’s permanent teaching collection. Join us as we learn more about his work as a contemporary artist, activist and casting as a creative process.
The museum is located on the Queens College campus in Klapper Hall, room 405.
All programs are free. Registration is encouraged, please email gtmuseum@qc.cuny.edu.
Spotlight Talks
Wednesday, November 20, 2024 at 12:30 pm
& Wednesday, December 4, 2024 at 12:30 pm
Join Pine Tree Foundation Fellows Mary Billyou and Elena Butuzova as we explore the works of two iconic 20th-century sculptors. Mary Billyou will guide us through Triptych (1958) by Louise Nevelson, a pioneering artist renowned for her monumental, monochromatic assemblages made from salvaged wood. Nevelson (1899-1988) was a leading figure in the world of sculpture, transforming discarded materials into powerful, architectural forms.
Elena Butuzova will introduce us to College Girl and Fencing Boy (1937) by Chaim Gross, a sculptor and educator celebrated for his direct hardwood carvings and expressive figurative works. Gross (1902-1991) was a member of the WPA (Works Progress Administration), where he both taught and created sculptures for public spaces such as schools, colleges, and federal buildings.
The museum is located on the Queens College campus in Klapper Hall, room 405.
All programs are free. Registration is encouraged, please email gtmuseum@qc.cuny.edu.
PAST EVENTS
Lunchtime Virtual Talk
with Artist John Hunter
Thursday, July 25, 2024 at 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Virtually via Zoom
Unable to join any of our in-person
tours of the exhibition? No problem!
Join us on Thursday, July 25th from
1pm–2pm for a virtual lunchtime talk with artist John Hunter as we take a closer look at his summer exhibition “Family, Identity & Culture” currently on view through August 29th at the
Godwin-Ternbach Museum. John will take
us through his collection of artworks
reflecting on the themes of identity,
family and the future of painting
and art.
Link to the recorded video: Click Here
Exhibition Tour
with Artist John Hunter
Tuesday, July 9, 2024 at 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Join us at the Godwin-Ternbach Museum at Queens College as we explore this summer’s exhibition “Family, Identity & Culture” with artist John Hunter. John will take us through his collection of artworks reflecting on the themes of identity, family and the future of painting and art.
This program is free and open to students and the public. RSVP encouraged.
The museum is located on the Queens College campus in Klapper Hall, room 405.
Exhibition Tour
with Artist John Hunter
Thursday, June 20, 2024 at 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Join us at the Godwin-Ternbach Museum at Queens College as we explore this summer’s exhibition “Family, Identity & Culture” with artist John Hunter. John will take us through his collection of artworks reflecting on the themes of identity, family and the future of painting and art.
This program is free and open to students and the public. RSVP encouraged.
The museum is located on the Queens College campus in Klapper Hall, room 405.
Exhibition Tour:
The Psychology of Portraiture
Monday, April 8, 2024 at 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm
& Wednesday, April 17, 2024 at 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm
Join us for a tour of the Spring exhibition, The Psychology of Portraiture, at the Godwin-Ternbach Museum. Louise Weinberg, curator for the exhibition and co-director, will lead museum visitors in a deep dive into this particular array of objects drawn from the museum’s encyclopedic collection.
Artist & Curator Talk:
Ntombephi “Induna” Ntobela & Beverley Gibson
Monday, December 4, 2023 at 12:30 pm EST
Online Via Zoom
Join us on Monday, December 4th at 12:30 pm EST for a special online conversation of Ubuhle Women: Beadwork and the Art of Independence with exhibition curator Beverley Gibson and artist Ntombephi “Induna” Ntobela.
Link to the recorded video: Click Here
Lunch Time Gallery Talk
Monday, May 1, 2023 at 12:30 pm (Free Hour)
at the Godwin-Ternbach Museum
Join us on May 1st as GTM Education and Collections intern Asli Erem shares the work she has been doing during her internship at the museum this Spring. Asli will discuss the relationship between Maya kingship and the adornment of jade. She will dive into topics regarding Maya mythology, storytelling through artifacts, and discuss her findings through 3D scanning and the photogrammetry of artifacts.
Lunch Time Gallery Talk
Monday, April 24, 2023 at 12:30 pm (Free Hour)
at the Godwin-Ternbach Museum
Throughout the 20th century, artists increasingly challenged existing modes of artistic production, looking toward new forms to convey their aesthetic and conceptual work. During this time, the book format proved to be a particularly fertile medium in which to directly engage audiences in an intimate, inexpensive, and participatory
manner. Taken together, the works “An Anthology of Chance Operations” and “Prière de toucher” serve as exemplary pieces that utilize the book format to examine the shifting emphasis on authority and experience within the avant-gardes.
Please join us on Monday, April 24 at 12:30pm for a conversation with Scott Davis, Visual and Performing Arts Librarian, for a look at objects from the Queens College Library’s Special Collections & Archives.
This program is free and is presented in conjunction with the exhibition THE GIFT: Queens College Collects.
Lunch Time Gallery Talk
Wednesday, April 19, 2023 at 12:30 pm (Free Hour)
at the Godwin-Ternbach Museum
Folks around the world still know Louis Armstrong as a groundbreaking trumpeter and vocalist, but many don’t know about his offstage hobbies, which included creating collages, compiling scrapbooks, and making reel-to-reel tapes. Those treasures are at the core of the Louis Armstrong Archives at Queens College and are part of the Spring 2023 Godwin-Ternbach
Museum exhibit, The Gift: Queens College Collects.
Join Ricky Riccardi, Grammy-winning author and Louis Armstrong House Museum Director of Research Collections, in the museum as he gives further details about Armstrong’s archives and his creative process.
This program is free and is presented in conjunction with the exhibition THE GIFT: Queens College Collects.
Lunch Time Gallery Talk
Monday, April 17, 2023 at 12:30 pm (Free Hour)
at the Godwin-Ternbach Museum
Japan has a rich history of creating timeless kimonos. This indigo Omi Jofu textile tells a magnificent story about kimonos from the late 19th and early twentieth century. It reflects the fine art and crafts of Koto in Shiga prefecture, the town unique for creating summertime hemp Omi Jofu kimono. A discussion of the yarns, dyeing processes, and the 700-year history of this textile will deepen your knowledge of its significance, craft, and beauty.
Join us for a conversation with Queens College Fashion and Textile Collection intern Alexis Puebla on April 17th as we take a closer look at a Japanese Omi Jofu kimono in the current exhibition at the Godwin-Ternbach Museum, THE GIFT.
This program is free and is presented in conjunction with the exhibition THE GIFT: Queens College Collects.
Lunch Time Gallery Talk
Monday, March 27, 2023 at 12:30 pm (Free Hour)
at the Godwin-Ternbach Museum
The 1910s were a formative decade for Western dress. From the proliferation of the “Art Nouveau” aesthetic to the outbreak of the Great War, the decade saw many factors influencing style and design.
This beautiful dressing gown reflects the transitional period between the Edwardian glamor of the 1900s and the Art Deco modernism of the 1920s. In this sweet spot, this dressing gown can be explored and discussed through many lenses.
Please meet with Queens College Fashion and Textiles Collection intern Zachary Portnoy during free hour on March 27th to uncover the secrets of this garment and learn a little bit about fashion during the nineteen-teens.
This program is free and is presented in conjunction with the exhibition THE GIFT: Queens College Collects.
Lunch Time Gallery Talk
Monday, March 13, 2023 at 12:30 pm (Free Hour)
at the Godwin-Ternbach Museum
Please join us for a conversation with Queens College Fashion and Textiles Collection Curator Emily Ripley on March 13th at 12:30, as we take a closer look at three garments from THE GIFT exhibition: an African Khanga, a Tanzanian dress from the mid twentieth century, and an Edwardian evening dress.
Together these three items invite a conversation around East African dress in all its multi-valent abundance, the sculpted, traditionally feminine body of the early twentieth century in the West, and the embodiment of colonization in a Tanzanian ready-to-wear garment.
This program is free and is presented in conjunction with the exhibition THE GIFT: Queens College Collects. Registration is encouraged.
Lunch Time Exhibition Tour
Wednesday, March 8, 2023 at 12:30 pm (Free Hour)
at the Godwin-Ternbach Museum
Did you know that Queens College is home to a diverse group of art, object and textile collections? Join us for a special tour of the Spring 2023 exhibition, The Gift: Queens College Collects, led by co-director and curator Louise Weinberg. The tour will highlight objects on view from six collections coming together for the first time since the college’s founding in 1937.
This program is free and is presented in conjunction with the exhibition The Gift: Queens College Collects. Registration is encouraged.
Lunch Time Artist Talk
Monday, December 5, 2022 at 12:30 pm (Free Hour)
at the Godwin-Ternbach Museum
Megan Mi-Ai Lee’s work examines the intersection of hope and infrastructure through sculpture, video, drawing, and text. In this talk, Lee will contextualize the work in Understatements within her current practice, most of which mines the city of Las Vegas as a specter for viewing the nation.
Using her personal history as a point of departure, this presentation will examine mechanisms of persuasion and the abstraction of value through various forms and historical events.
This program is free and is presented in conjunction with the exhibition Understatements: Lost & Found in Asian America.
Gallery Conversation
Tuesday, November 29, 2022 at 6:00 pm
at the Godwin-Ternbach Museum
Join us on Tuesday, November 29 at 6pm for a gallery conversation featuring Queens College President Frank H. Wu and Herb Tam, Curator and Director of Exhibitions at Museum of Chinese in America and guest curator for Understatements: Lost & Found in Asian America, on view at the Godwin-Ternbach Museum.
This program is free and is presented in conjunction with the exhibition Understatements: Lost & Found in Asian America.
Lunch Time Artist Talk
Monday, November 21, 2022 at 12:30 pm (Free Hour)
at the Godwin-Ternbach Museum
How can we abandon the boundaries of verbal language and harness alternative modes of communication?
Join artist Kiani Ferris as she shares her practice which mediates the shifting distance and proximity of spirits while forming connections with them, honoring their histories within present forms.
Inspired by reflexology objects as a negotiation between external pressures and inner anatomy and Japanese Buddhist rituals that honor the deceased, she composes her drawings and sculptures through the placement and orientation of various cultural materials.
This program is free and is presented in conjunction with the exhibition Understatements: Lost & Found in Asian America.
Artist Talk
Thursday, November 17, 2022 at 6:00 pm
at the Godwin-Ternbach Museum
Art as expression engages the mind, body, and spirit in ways that are distinct from verbal articulation alone. Kinesthetic, sensory, perceptual, and symbolic opportunities invite alternative modes of receptive and expressive communication, which can circumvent the limitations of language. In this talk, artist Xingjian Ding will engage us in an intimate & casual dialogue regarding his work in relation to self-reflection and self-empowerment, as well as an examination on the significance of “art therapy” in the context of his life.
This program is free and is presented in conjunction with the exhibition Understatements: Lost & Found in Asian America.
Virtual Artist Talk
Monday, November 14, 2022 at 6:00 pm
via ZOOM
Interdisciplinary artist Yu-Wen Wu joins us virtually to discuss the process and the intertwined roles of mapping and storytelling in her artistic practice. Her work in drawing, sculpture, installation, community engagement, and public art embarks on internal navigations of personal journeys and questions of her Asian American identity. She also forges connections between communities through the sharing of stories. Whether data, systems, spatial and temporal relationships, or stories, mapping is a way for Wu to locate herself in the world physically, culturally, and psychologically and to prompt others to navigate displacement, arrival, assimilation, belonging, and other social issues.
This program is free and is presented in conjunction with the exhibition Understatements: Lost & Found in Asian America.
Lunchtime Artist Talk
Wednesday, November 2, 2022 at 12:30 pm (Free Hour)
at the Godwin-Ternbach Museum
In this Artist Talk, Sharmistha Ray will focus on the ways in which their artistic practice has been shaped by myriad cultural influences that include the pattern-making of South Asian textiles, sacred forms of abstraction, illuminated manuscripts, and calligraphy. They will also give us a glimpse into Hilma’s Ghost, the feminist artist collective they co-founded, which is a dynamic platform for women, nonbinary, and trans artists working with abstraction and mysticism.
This program is free and is presented in conjunction with the exhibition Understatements: Lost & Found in Asian America.
Artist Talk
Thursday, October 27, 2022 at 6:00 pm
at the Godwin-Ternbach Museum
Join us for an Artist Talk with artist Mika Agari as she discusses her work in the current exhibition and her creative practice. Explore the materials used, how works change in reference to space and context and explore some of the themes that are woven throughout her work such as celestial planes, earthly gardens, biblical references, space colonization and science fiction.
This program is free and is presented in conjunction with the exhibition Understatements: Lost & Found in Asian America.
Artist Walk
Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 12:00 pm
Meeting Point: Flushing, NY
Framed as a letter to the Cantopop singer Shirley Kwan, Emmy Catedral’s video Dear Shirley, in the exhibition Understatements, is a meandering rumination—set in, and written from the artist’s home in Queens—on the lost versions, edits, sub-plots, and characters that “that didn’t make the cut.” In Kwan’s case, the hours of footage of her performance for Wong Kar Wai’s film Happy Together, including a song that she recorded, never made its way to Wong’s intimate, romantic, and tumultuous story of the lives of Chinese immigrants adrift in Buenos Aires.
Catedral’s artist-talk for Understatements will take the form of a guided walk—a fuzzy constellation highlighting Flushing’s co-existing, discordant micro-histories, of immigration, religion, razed sites of the Underground Railroad, Lewis Latimer’s lightbulb, and the first Weeping Beech tree in America, among other sub-plots.
This program is free and is presented in conjunction with the exhibition Understatements: Lost & Found in Asian America.
Artist Talk
Thursday, October 20, 2022 at 6:00 pm
at the Godwin-Ternbach Museum
The Godwin-Ternbach Museum is delighted to welcome multi-hyphenated visual artist Jeremy Yuto Nakamura. In this Artist Talk, Nakamura will give us a glimpse behind his intimate work drawn from recordings in sketchbook entries that bring bursts of energy, color, and light to everyday subjects.
This program is free and is presented in conjunction with the exhibition Understatements: Lost & Found in Asian America.
Curator Talk
Tuesday, October 11, 2022 at 6:00 pm
at the Godwin-Ternbach Museum
Join us on Tuesday, October 11 at 6pm for a curator talk featuring Herb Tam, guest curator for Understatements: Lost & Found in Asian America, on view at the Godwin-Ternbach Museum. During this talk, Tam, will provide us with a closer look into the exhibition, how it came together and the ideas behind it.
This program is free and is presented in conjunction with the exhibition Understatements: Lost & Found in Asian America.
Author Talk
Friday, June 3, 2022 at 8:00 pm
Queens College, Chorus Room 264
Kupferberg Center for the Arts and Godwin-Ternbach Museum at Queens College welcome you to an in-person conversation with author Craig Taylor. This free event will take place in Chorus Room 264, a 200-seat theater in the Aaron Copland School of Music.
Taylor’s latest book, New Yorkers: A City and its People in Our Time, is coming out in the softcover edition. Seventy-five people have been interviewed for the book published in 2021 which brings together a symphony of voices of contemporary New York City. Best-selling author Craig Taylor has been hailed as a “peerless journalist and a beautiful craftsman” (David Rakoff), acclaimed for the way he “fuses the mundane truth of conversation with the higher truth of art” (Michael Faber). New Yorkers is a companion piece to his earlier book, Londoners: The Days and Nights of London Now–As Told by Those Who Love It, Hate It, Live It, Left It, and Long for It, 2012. Taylor received the Non-Fiction Prize for New Yorkers from the Brooklyn Public Library in 2021. For more information on Craig Taylor’s New Yorkers, please click HERE.
The event will provide a conversation about the book, the city, the process of writing documentary literature which will prove appealing for anyone interested in non-fiction or writing about cities. Joining Craig Taylor will be Daniel Bauso and Louise Weinberg (Co-Director, Director of Exhibitions/Collections, and Curator of the Godwin-Ternbach Museum), two of the interviewees in New Yorkers. The conversation will be moderated by Kara Murphy Schlichting, (Associate Professor of History at Queens College).
Artist Talk
Monday, May 2, 2022 at 6:00 pm
Online via Zoom
For the past four years, Tiny Pricks Project has threaded the needle at the intersection of social media, the Trump presidency, craft, a pandemic,
community art initiatives, and language.
In this talk, artist and activist Diana Weymar will discuss the history of Tiny Pricks Project and the way in which it has adjusted to different events and remained a grassroots initiative. “Desperate times, creative measures” has been the mantra of the project. How does this play out on a large scale and how do we use the “material” of our lives and times to create a material record?
This program is presented in conjunction with the exhibition Tiny Pricks Project.
Gallery Talk
Wednesday, May 4, 2022 at 12:15 pm
Online via Zoom
Museums, as a reflection of societies themselves, are living through times of change. This shift comes with numerous challenges. As museums rightly strive to be more equitable and inclusive, they have a responsibility to represent the experiences of a diversity of voices and communities, especially as they relate to urgent social justice issues in contemporary society.
Drawing from the experiences of the Migrations Museums Network, a global network of museums and historic sites focused on (im)migration facilitated by the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience, this presentation will explore how museums can contribute towards a renewed kind of world citizenship and be real agents for social responsibility and change.
This event is presented in collaboration with the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience.
Gallery Talk
Wednesday, May 4, 2022 at 6:00PM EST
Online via Zoom
De-centering whiteness in our classrooms requires much more than teaching “diverse art.” Alisha Mernick is an artist, educator, and organizer based in Los Angeles, who has been implementing liberatory, critical arts pedagogy in the K-12 classroom for over a decade. In this workshop, Alisha shares how she explicitly names and disrupts the erasure and tokenization of bipoc artists in traditional art curriculum and pedagogies and decenters whiteness in her art classroom today.
This program is presented in collaboration with the Art Education program at Queens College.
Artist Talk
Thursday, March 31, 2022 at 6:00 pm EST
Online via Zoom
The Godwin-Ternbach Museum is delighted to welcome artist Edel Rodriguez for a virtual Artist Talk. Edel’s talk will revolve around the ideas of freedom and risk. How far are we willing to go to get to where we want to be? What are we willing to sacrifice? Is the goal worth the risk? These are things that the artist thinks about on a regular basis, and ideas that inform his work every day.
For Edel’s family, emigrating from Cuba to America was worth the risk. In Edel’s art, expressing his point of view has always been worth the risk. As Edel states “Too often, we are quiet, we don’t speak up, and we do what’s expected of us — because we are afraid of the risks involved. However, every time we don’t share our point of view, a piece of us dies.”
We hope you can join us and learn more about Edel’s journey, the events that influence his work today, and the power that art has to speak for people when they are at a crossroads of history.
Link to the recorded video: https://youtu.be/h8E_I9NLsz8
Artist Talk
Wednesday, February 23, 2022 at 6:00 pm EST
Online via Zoom
Join us on Wednesday, February 23 at 6pm EST for a virtual Artist Talk featuring Susanne Slavick and Andrew Ellis Johnson.
Through paintings, video, and works on paper, Andrew Ellis Johnson and Susanne Slavick examine the contradictory fears and hypocrisies, ignored histories and punitive policies surrounding the challenge of migrants and refugees today.
The works in Getting There question our response to “the stranger.” Getting There is not just about the journey and reception of migrants; it is also about the movement of our own consciences.
This program is presented in conjunction with the exhibition Getting There: Works by Andrew Ellis Johnson and Susanne Slavick.
Link to the recorded video: https://youtu.be/xHbAz4I6A2E
Artist Talk
Tuesday, November 9, 2021 at 7:00 pm EST
Live Stream via YouTube and Facebook
Join us for a virtual Artist Talk featuring photographer Orestes Gonzalez.
In this talk, Gonzalez will explore and discuss his work from the DISRUPTION series and the stories that have inspired many of his photographs, which are on view in the current virtual exhibition: Migrations: A Study of Arts and Identity. DISRUPTION is an ongoing series on seemingly random events that life & circumstances throws at people, changing their path forever.
This program is presented in conjunction with Migrations: A Study of Arts and Identity exhibition and a collaboration with Kupferberg Center for the Arts.
This program is made possible with support in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
Panel Conversation
Tuesday, October 26, 2021 at 6:00 pm
Online via Zoom
Join us for a panel conversation featuring, an artist (Naomi Kuo), a curator (Sarah Margolis-Pineo) and an archivist (Natalie Milbrodt) as we explore the power of partnership to spur fresh iterations of successful practices. They will share the origins and process of a collaborative textile installation created to facilitate self-expression and community building through sharing stories of migration.
This program is presented in conjunction with the exhibition MIGRATIONS: A Study or Arts and Identity and with support in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services and the Museum Association of New York.
Panel Conversation
Wednesday, October 20, 2021 at 7:00 pm
Online via Zoom
Join us on Wednesday, October 20th at 7pm for a panel discussion. This panel conversation brings together the photographer and two dancers from the Migrations performance that took place at Queens College in the fall of 2017 and inspired the current exhibition MIGRATIONS: A Study of Arts and Identity.
Join Julen Esteban-Pretel (QC faculty/photographer), Elise Walters (Dancer/QC alumna), Steven Jeltsch (Dancer/QC alumnus) as we discuss the relationship between photographer & performer and the intricacies of documenting a dance performance from rehearsals to day-of-show. Maria Pio, co-director and director of education programs and administration at GTM, will moderate this discussion.
This program is presented in conjunction with the exhibition MIGRATIONS: A Study or Arts and Identity.
Link to the recorded video: https://youtu.be/W1ho4o0eeSU
Artist Talk
Tuesday, October 12, 2021 at 6:00 pm
Online via Zoom
Join us on Tuesday, October 12th at 6pm for a conversation with Queens College professor Steven Harris and learn more about the work he has done photographing for performance artists such as Marina Abramovic, video projects for the Sculpture’s Guild, and images produced for artists at Sean Kelly Gallery in NY.
This program is presented in conjunction with the exhibition MIGRATIONS: A Study or Arts and Identity.
Link to the recorded video: https://youtu.be/Tf1CUgP4k0w
Curator Talk
Wednesday, July 28, 2021 at 7:00 pm
Online via Zoom
Join us on Wednesday, July 28th at 7pm for a virtual talk featuring Godwin-Ternbach Museum’s curator and co-director Louise Weinberg.
From x-rays of the body’s interior to the most recent images produced by NASA’s Hubble telescope, photography shows us our world in micro to macro.
Bringing together iconic works from the permanent collection of the Museum with works from other collections including the curator’s own, ‘Why Do We Need Photography?’ serves to remind us of how we describe, commemorate, document, and communicate as human beings.
This program is presented in collaboration with Kupferberg Center for the Arts and with support in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
Artist Talk
Tuesday, March 23, 2021 at 7:00 pm
Online via Zoom
The Godwin-Ternbach Museum is proud to welcome contemporary artist Perry Hu for a virtual artist talk on Tuesday, March 23, 2021 at 7pm.
Perry Hu uses photography as a tool and medium of regard in both geographic and mental connection to the homeland of his parents who had departed it because of civil war. His photography and research activity in recent years has largely focused on a connection to ongoing developments in Chinese society.
This program is presented in conjunction with the virtual exhibition PAGES FROM THE PHOTOGRAPHY COLLECTION: Feininger, Genthe, Gibson, Schwarzenbach, and Warhol.
Link to the recorded video: https://youtu.be/SoJ2V_LoCRM
Artist Talk
Tuesday, January 19, 2021 at 7:00 pm
Online via Zoom
The Godwin-Ternbach Museum is proud to welcome contemporary artist Jordan Casteel for a virtual artist talk on Tuesday, January 19, 2021 at 7pm. Casteel has rooted her practice in community engagement, painting from her own photographs of people she encounters. Posing her subjects within their natural environments, her nearly life-size portraits and cropped compositions chronicle personal observations of the human experience.
This program is presented in conjunction with the virtual exhibition HUMAN/Nature: Portraits from the Permanent Collection.
Link to the recorded video: https://youtu.be/KSFGaJBOOww
Curator Talk
Tuesday, December 8, 2020 at 7:00 pm
Online via Zoom
Join us on Tuesday, December 8th at 7pm for a curator talk featuring Godwin-Ternbach Museum’s curator and co-director Louise Weinberg. In this talk, Louise will offer an inside look at the curating process for the current exhibition HUMAN/Nature: Portraits from the Permanent Collection.
Link to the recorded video: https://youtu.be/tfxrVBw-Fsc
Artist Talk
Wednesday, November 4, 2020 at 6:00 pm
Online via Zoom
Artist and Queens College Professor Gina Minielli will explore portrait photography in this engaging Artist Talk.
Portrait photography is the art of capturing the inherent character of your subject within a photograph. This art goes way beyond just clicking pictures of people. Gina will discuss her own journey of creating photographic portraits for the past three decades.
Link to the recorded video: https://youtu.be/4Fh0bOEsr-c
Artist Talk
Wednesday, October 28, 2020 at 6:00 pm
Online via Zoom
Queens College alumna and artist Deja Patterson will address how the ideals of beauty have changed throughout the course of history. For centuries, Black women were only represented in portraiture as symbols of service and objectification.
Deja’s paintings reclaim the Black female nude. She also reclaims power against unrealistic societal standards through her work, in response to the fat shaming and discrimination she has endured as a 300 pound woman.
Link to the recorded video: https://youtu.be/eTrT32JsEWM
Artist Talk
Tuesday, October 13, 2020 at 7:00 pm
Online via Zoom
One of the core elements of artist Azikiwe Mohammed’s practice is photography. In this talk for the Godwin-Ternbach Museum, Azikiwe will be focusing on photography as document creator, photographs as objects both physical and mental and how telling stories in this space up brackets to the rest of his practice.
From traveling around the country on the Greyhound bus shooting, to his travelling free portrait studio, Azikiwe hopes to offer a look at what Black people look like as told by Black people, not to / at Black people, as is too often the case, with footnotes by him. The photographs are the footnotes.
Lunchtime Conversations
Monday, February 10, 2020 at 12:15 pm &
Wednesday, February 19 at 12:15 pm
Join co-director and curator Louise Weinberg for an insightful look into Hale Aspacio Woodruff’s prints currently on view at the Godwin-Ternbach Museum.
Program is FREE and open to students and public. Light refreshments served.
Artist Talk
Tuesday, November 19, 2019 at 4:30 pm
Artist Nicole Mouriño, Queens College Social Practice alumna, discusses her practice in relation to selected artists and artworks from Arte Cubano.
Program is FREE and open to students and public.
Gallery Talk
Wednesday, December 4, 2019 at 3:30 pm
Professor Lisandro Pérez will explore the set of unique historical conditions that combined to give Cuban culture its rich diversity. The island’s early role as the hub of Spanish commerce in the New World, its sugar revolution, the special relationship with the United States, its large immigrant population, and its convulsive political history, all served to shape a dynamic and syncretic culture that has long made the island a hotbed for creative expression, especially in the arts and music.
Program is FREE and open to students and public.
Art & Poetry
Wednesday, April 17, 2019 at 12:15 pm – 1:30 pm
Join us at the Godwin-Ternbach Museum during Free Hour on Wednesday, April 17 from 12:15pm-1:30pm and hear Queens College students, Rebecca Rivera, BFA and Jeanmarie Evelly, MFA as they share original poems inspired by works of art from the exhibition Hope is the Thing with Feathers: Art of the Natural World.
Program is FREE and open to students and public.
This program is presented in collaboration with the English Department.
Art & Music
Monday, April 29, 2019 at 12:15 pm – 1:30 pm
Indulge your senses and join us at the Godwin-Ternbach Museum during Free Hour on Monday, April 29 from 12:15pm – 1:30pm and listen to students, Phaik Tzhi (violin) and Nigel Chase (steel pans), from the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College as they share their own musical compositions in response to objects from the exhibition Hope is the Thing with Feathers: Art of the Natural World.
Program is FREE and open to students and public.
This program is presented in collaboration with the Aaron Copland School of Music.
Gallery Talk: Environmental Grassroots Advocacy in the 21st Century: In a Digital Age
Thursday, May 2, 1019 at 5:30 pm
Maureen Regan, founder of Queens based non-profit Green Earth Urban Gardens, Inc will join us to discuss how we address areas of concern and advocacy in a rapidly changing digital age.
Program is FREE and open to students and public.
Artist Talk: Intersection of Art & Nature with Wild Life Artist Fred Adell
Monday, May 6, 2019 at 12:15pm – 1:30pm
Join us during on Monday, May 6 as artist Fred Adell discusses his inspiration behind many of his creations and as we observe and discuss his painting, Age of Aquarium (2010), currently in the exhibition “Hope is the Thing with Feathers: Art of the Natural World.”
Program is FREE and open to students and public.
Art & Music
Wednesday, May 8, 2019 at 12:15 pm – 1:30 pm
Indulge your senses and join us at the Godwin-Ternbach Museum during Free Hour on Wednesday, May 8 from 12:15pm–1:30pm and listen to students, Noriko Omichi (flute) and Kyle Miller (guitar), from the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College as they share their own musical compositions in response to objects from the exhibition Hope is the Thing with Feathers: Art of the Natural World.
Program is FREE and open to students and public.
This program is presented in collaboration with the Aaron Copland School of Music.
Gallery Talk: Down by the River: art & advocacy along the Flushing, Queens coastline
Thursday, May 9, 2019 at 5:30 pm
Join artist and activist Cody Ann Herrmann for a presentation highlighting her ongoing work in her hometown of Flushing, Queens. Since 2015 Cody’s work has revolved around Flushing Bay and Creek, creating an iterative series of projects critiquing current policy related to land use and environmental planning. Through multidisciplinary arts, community engagement exercises, and grassroots organizing she applies an iterative, human centered approach to environmental problem solving. Cody is currently enrolled in Social Practice Queens at CUNY Queens College.
Art & Poetry
Monday, May 13, 2019 at 12:15 pm – 1:30 pm
Join us at the Godwin-Ternbach Museum during Free Hour on Monday, May 13 from 12:15pm-1:30pm and hear Queens College students, Reena Alter, BA and Belal Mobarak, MFA as they share original poems inspired by works of art from the exhibition Hope is the Thing with Feathers: Art of the Natural World.
Program is FREE and open to students and public.
This program is presented in collaboration with the English Department.
Gallery Tour with the Curator
Tuesday, April 30 at 5:30pm
Wednesday, June 19 at 5:30pm
From a mummy case for a falcon, 1085-322 BC, to Andy Warhol’s Flowers, 1964, artists and artisans have engaged with nature over millennia, drawing inspiration from the known world. Join guest curator Louise Weinberg for an insightful exploration of the exhibition Hope is the Thing with Feathers: Art of the Natural World.
Tours are FREE and open to the public.
Artist Talk: Caroline Wells Chandler
Tuesday, December 4, 2018 at 5:00 pm
Join Queens-based artist, Caroline Wells Chandler, as he discusses his work in the exhibition From the Desert to the City: The Journey of Late Ancient Textiles. Stemming out of a 1970’s feminist craft history, Chandler’s brightly colored hand crocheted figures explore queerness and the art historical cannon. Chandler twists the language of folk by using the materials, processes, and the archetypes of conservative culture to create affirmational queer arenas.
Exhibition Talk: Buried Beauties: Uncovering the trail of Late Antique Textiles
Thursday, November 29, 2018 at 5:00 pm
The original excavators and collectors of Late Antique objects followed practices that often inadvertently divorced the objects from their context. In light of this, the provenance of antiquities, such as those in the Rose Choron collection, are difficult to determine. Ava Katz will discuss how this relates to the current exhibition and how provenance of some of the objects in the collection was found.
Exhibition Talk: Who Wore it Best?
Popular Imagery in Late Antique Textiles and Dress
Thursday, November 8, 2018 at 5:00 pm
Clothing and other textiles show a remarkable number of popular motifs that appear again and again throughout the Late Antique world. Images of dancers and mounted riders are just two examples that seem ubiquitous across time and place, and also appear on different media, not just textiles. Jennifer Ball, Associate Professor of Art History at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center CUNY, will discuss how these images were replicated in a pre-internet age and what it suggests about Late Antique views on fashion, status and originality.
Artist Talk: Portraits of Ancient Linen
Tuesday, October 16, 2018 at 5:00 pm
Brooklyn artist Gail Rothschild will speak about her series of paintings Portraits of Ancient Linen, in which she magnifies fragile, archaic fragments of textile into a heroic scale. In the latest evolution of the series, Rothschild has collaborated with the Godwin-Ternbach Museum of Queens College to develop five new paintings based on the Rose Choron collection of Coptic textiles.
FILM SCREENING: Design is One: The Story of Lella and Massimo Vignelli
Free Hour, Monday, December 11
ARTIST LECTURE: Natalya Balnova
Wednesday, November 29th
Sponsored by the Queens College Art Department
Announcing the GODWIN-TERNBACH MUSEUM PODCAST!
Our first podcast is a recording of the poetry reading by Natalie Diaz and Sandra Lim sponsored by B E L L A D O N N A* and the Queens College English Department. This project was created by Queens College students Joseph Patzner (MLS ’18) and Mohammad Khan (BA History ’18).
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ARTIST LECTURE: Tomi Arai
Thursday, April 21, 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Sponsored by Professor Tyrone Mitchell of the Queens College Art Department
Tomie Arai is public artist who lives and works in NYC. She has designed both temporary and permanent public works of art for Creative Time, the US General Services Administration Art in Architecture Program, the NYC PerCent for Art Program, the Cambridge Arts Council, the MTA Arts for Transit Program, the New York City Board of Education and the San Francisco Arts Commission.
About her process Arai says “Through the use of family stories, shared memories, and archival photographs, I construct pages of ‘living history’ that reflect the layered and complex narratives that give meaning to the places we live in.”
FREE SCREENING OF THE ANTHROPOLOGIST
Tuesday, April 12 at 6:00 pm
At the core of The Anthropologist are the parallel stories of two women: Margaret Mead, who popularized cultural anthropology in America; and Susie Crate, an environmental anthropologist currently studying the impact of climate change. Uniquely revealed from their daughters’ perspectives, Mead and Crate demonstrate a fascination with how societies are forced to negotiate the disruption of their traditional ways of life, whether through encounters with the outside world or the unprecedented change wrought by melting permafrost, receding glaciers and rising tides.
The screening will be followed by Q&A with film director Seth Kramer; Climate change scientist Prof. Stephen Pekar; City Council Member and Chair of Environmental Protection Committee Costa Constantinides.
Moderated by Prof. Leslie McCleave, Media Studies.
B E L L A D O N N A * WITH QUEENS COLLEGE:
A READING BY POETS NATALIE DIAZ AND SANDRA LIM
Q&A facilitated by Bidisha Bagchee and Joshua Oladiti
Monday, March 14 at 6:30 pm
Co-sponsored by B E L L A D O N N A* and the Queens College English Department
RECORDING OF THIS EVENT IS NOW AVAILABLE ON ITUNES
NATALIE DIAZ was born and raised in the Fort Mojave Indian Village in Needles, CA, on the banks of the Colorado River. She is Mojave and an enrolled member of the Gila River Indian Tribe. Her first poetry collection, When My Brother Was an Aztec, was published by Copper Canyon Press. A Lannan Literary Fellow and Native Arts Council Foundation Fellow, she was awarded a Bread Loaf Fellowship, the Holmes National Poetry Prize, a Hodder Fellowship, and a PEN/Civitella Ranieri Foundation Residency, as well as a US Artists Ford Fellowship. Diaz teaches at the Institute of American Indian Arts Low Rez MFA program and splits her time between the East Coast and Mohave Valley, AZ, where she works to revitalize the Mojave language.
SANDRA LIM is the author of Loveliest Grotesque (Kore Press, 2006) and The Wilderness (W.W. Norton, 2014), selected by Louise Glück for the 2013 Barnard Women Poets Prize. The Wilderness also won the Levis Reading Prize from Virginia Commonwealth University (2015). Lim is the recipient of fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Vermont Studio Center, the Getty Research Institute, and the Jentel Foundation. Her poems and essay have appeared in Boston Review, VOLT, Literary Imagination, and The New York Times. She is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts—Lowell and she lives in Cambridge, MA.
The reading is free and open to the public. A reception will follow.
For more information, please contact Ryan Black at ryan.black@qc.cuny.edu
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