During each workshop of this series, two artists from different Indigenous backgrounds are invited to lead concurrent drop-in artmaking activities where the materials and methods of making are in dialogue with one another. The public is invited to participate and experience a range of techniques for working by hand, while fostering informal conversation and exchange across Indigenous practices, languages, and forms of knowledge.

In conjunction with her solo exhibition, to reverberate tenderly, artist sonia louise davis invites musicians Rena Anakwe, Sarah Galdes, and Sugar Vendil to improvise with her three steel instruments, or sounders, for the second of two performances in the gallery space. Performers will use percussion, string, voice, and other experimental techniques to respond to the exhibition’s multi-sensory environment and davis’ large-scale mural, score for Queens Museum (2023).

Members of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing communities are invited to explore Queens Museum with museum educator Joyce Hom. This program will feature ASL tours of the contemporary art exhibitions sonia louise davis: to reverberate tenderly, Emilie L. Gossiaux: Other-Worlding, and Caroline Kent: A short play about watching shadows move across the room.

ArtAccess Open Studio programs provide opportunities for children, teens, and adults with disabilities to engage with their peers and expand artistic interests through art-making and gallery exploration activities at the Queens Museum. Each month explores a new theme and different activities. We adapt materials and activities for participants’ needs. You can note any needs or accommodations to artaccess@queensmuseum.org.

This month we’re foregrounding the past, present, and future contributions of Black Americans. We’ll be screening two films that foreground Black protagonists and legacies, and join us before or after for our drop-in art making workshops for a deeper dive into Black History.

RSVP is not necessary, but entry to screenings will close 15 minutes after the movie has begun.

Please join us for Lunar New Year 2024 as the New York Chinese Cultural Center (NYCCC) returns to Queens Museum with its signature program. Together we will be celebrating the Year of the Dragon with folk dances, Lion and Dragon Dance, Peking Opera, and traditional arts and crafts. The event will include an hour-long performance program featuring professional artists and students of NYCCC’s School of the Arts. In addition to a hands-on Chinese calligraphy and ink brush painting workshop for kids and adults, there will be an all-ages art-making workshop on dragon craft creations led by the Queens Museum education team.

Visitors who are blind or have low vision are invited to join Emilie L. Gossiaux on a touch tour of her exhibition, Other-Worlding. Core to this program is the idea of touch and access as love. Participants will learn about the proper way to touch art with consent and care. They will experience Gossiaux’s sculptural installation White Cane Maypole Dance through touch and verbal description, as well as the artist’s explanation of her process.

Please reserve two tickets if you are attending with someone else.

ArtAccess Open Studio programs provide opportunities for children, teens, and adults with disabilities to engage with their peers and expand artistic interests through art-making and gallery exploration activities at the Queens Museum. Each month explores a new theme and different activities. We adapt materials and activities for participants’ needs. You can note any needs or accommodations to artaccess@queensmuseum.org.

Programs take place in person at the Museum and are free with advanced registration.

Museum Explorers (recommended for ages 8-12)

Join us monthly on the first Saturday from 11:30am-1:00pm.

Open Studio for Teens and Adults (recommended for teens and adults)

Join us monthly on the first Saturday from 2:00-4:00pm.

Visitors who are blind or have low vision are invited to join Emilie L. Gossiaux and sonia louise davis in a virtual verbal description tour of their respective exhibitions, Other-Worlding and to reverberate tenderly. Using various media and approaches across sculpture, drawing, painting, figuration, abstraction, and improvisation, Gossiaux and davis find common ground in their pursuit of softness and joy as a mode of resistance. Join these two artists as they each verbally describe three works from their solo exhibitions and discuss their work with participants.

Point Reflection, a geometric phenomenon of one point mirrored across an axis, is the title for both the exhibition and new performance by Aki Sasamoto. In Sasamoto’s exhibition, kinetic sculptures including snail shells, melanin sponges and sugar packets perform abstract concepts of craving and unpredictability as the artist’s proxy.

Inspired by a statement from Cyrée Jarelle Johnson in the book Black Futures, Everyone I Know Is Sick examines how our society excludes disabled and sick people by upholding a false dichotomy of health and sickness. Inviting us to understand disability as a common experience rather than an exception to the norm, the program highlights a range of experiences spanning HIV, COVID, mental health, and aging. The commissioned artists foreground the knowledge and expertise of disabled and sick people in a world still grappling with multiple ongoing pandemics.

Join Caribbean Equality Project, in partnership with Equality New York, The New Pride Agenda, Queer Detainee Empowerment Project (QDEP), Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI), and Make the Road NY proudly present “Transgender Day of Remembrance: We Will Not Be Erased” on November 19, from 5-8:30 pm at the Queens Museum. Join us for an afternoon of storytelling and performances to honor trans community members lost to transphobic violence and to celebrate trans lives around us. Our observance of Transgender Day of Remembrance will center the joys, achievements, and contributions of trans and gender expansive people to the fabric of our community and collective liberation movement.

Join us for gallery tours, a drop-in art workshop led by our resident teaching artists, and a screening of the PBS documentary Storming Caesars Palace, followed by a panel discussion with Director Hazel Gurland-Pooler, Gianina Enriquez, Community Organizer at the Queens Museum, and Monica Bunay, a mother and active member of the Queens community

Join us for Día de los Muertos, a day of remembrance and celebration, featuring dance and music performances, facepainting, artmaking, and more for the whole family to enjoy! This vibrant and festive celebration is a cherished tradition honoring ancestors and loved ones who have passed away while embracing the beauty of life.

Discover art, science, and history in a welcoming environment that celebrates neurodiversity. Visit the Queens Museum for art-making and gallery exploration, guided by trained museum educators and teaching artists.

Within the past thirty years, Indigenous cinema has grown to new heights despite the social, economic, and political barriers that Indigenous creators have faced in order to bring their stories to life. What has resulted are extremely creative, innovative, and genre-bending stories that disrupt hegemonic narratives, embody the complexity, history, and experiences of Indigenous communities, and showcase the deep multifaceted talents of Indigenous filmmakers. The films in this three-program series are small windows to those stories, to the collective visioning and world-building created within and by Indigenous communities, from the Nunatsiavut territory to Iximulew to Turtle Island, to here, on Matinecock, Canarsie, Lekawe (Rockaway), and Munsee Lenape land.

This fun-filled event promises an array of engaging activities for all ages.

Art-Making Workshops, Children's Theatre, and Gallery Tours

After Hours, an evening of art, community, and celebration, returns in August with a partnership with Colectivo Intercultural TRANSgrediendo. Join us for artmaking, drag performances, karaoke, and food, drinks and live music on the museum’s doorstep in beautiful Flushing Meadows Corona Park.

Join WE Bike NYC and Mujeres en Movimiento for a series of three workshops on bicycle mechanics.

Learn about the basics of bike mechanics! Workshops will be offered bilingually in Spanish and English.

Full schedule on Queens Museum's website.

Join WE Bike NYC and Mujeres en Movimiento for a series of three workshops on bicycle mechanics.

Learn about the basics of bike mechanics! Workshops will be offered bilingually in Spanish and English.

Full schedule on Queens Museum's website.

Join a dedicated group of filmmakers working on a feature-length documentary to discuss and record your memories of the 1964-1965 New York World’s Fair. Oral histories collected on these dates will ultimately enter the Queens Museum’s archive for future generations, as well as potentially be featured in the film.

Join WE Bike NYC and Mujeres en Movimiento for a series of three workshops on bicycle mechanics.

Learn about the basics of bike mechanics! Workshops will be offered bilingually in Spanish and English.

Full schedule on Queens Museum's website.

Join us for a conversation between Aliza Nisenbaum and some of the Queens-based organizers and artists she’s worked with in the borough over the last decade.

The discussion will feature three participants from Nisenbaum’s recent five-month painting workshop: Arte e Identidad: Un Taller de Pintura con Aliza Nisenbaum: Emma Confesor, Miguel Flores, and Luz Caicedo.

Flushing Creek was artificially forced underground at sections into pipes for the construction of the 1939 World’s Fair grounds and now runs beneath and through the center of Flushing Meadows Corona Park. Daylighting, or restoring underground portions of a waterway into above ground habitats, has immense benefits for social-ecological health and climate resilience.

These workshops will be designed for adults ages 18 and older. Any minors older than 12 are welcome to participate, but must be accompanied by an adult. All participants should be prepared for uneven terrain, long outdoor walks and muddy conditions. No prior experience is necessary.

The Queens Museum welcomes children with disabilities (ages 8-12) and their families to visit the Queens Museum from 11:30am-1:00pm for art-making activities, guided by trained museum educators and teaching artists.

The Queens Museum welcomes teens (ages 13+) and adults with disabilities to join us at the museum for art-making and exhibition exploration.

The Queens Museum welcomes children with disabilities (ages 8-12) and their families to visit the Queens Museum from 11:30am-1:00pm for art-making activities, guided by trained museum educators and teaching artists.

Flushing Creek was artificially forced underground at sections into pipes for the construction of the 1939 World’s Fair grounds and now runs beneath and through the center of Flushing Meadows Corona Park. Daylighting, or restoring underground portions of a waterway into above ground habitats, has immense benefits for social-ecological health and climate resilience.

These workshops will be designed for adults ages 18 and older. Any minors older than 12 are welcome to participate, but must be accompanied by an adult. All participants should be prepared for uneven terrain, long outdoor walks and muddy conditions. No prior experience is necessary.

This K–12 teacher workshop, hosted in partnership with The Apollo, explores the history of social dances throughout the twentieth century. After viewing the special exhibition A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration, take to the dance floor to learn popular moves of the era. Then, discover how these dances can be adapted for your classroom—using today’s top hits—to allow students to consider concepts of place, identity, culture, and intersectionality.

Flushing Creek was artificially forced underground at sections into pipes for the construction of the 1939 World’s Fair grounds and now runs beneath and through the center of Flushing Meadows Corona Park. Daylighting, or restoring underground portions of a waterway into above ground habitats, has immense benefits for social-ecological health and climate resilience.

These workshops will be designed for adults ages 18 and older. Any minors older than 12 are welcome to participate, but must be accompanied by an adult. All participants should be prepared for uneven terrain, long outdoor walks and muddy conditions. No prior experience is necessary.