Queens Museum: Spring Exhibitions Opening Celebration — Sunday, May 19th, 2024

Please join us for an opening celebration of the

Queens Museum’s Spring exhibitions on Sunday, May 19, 2024: 

Lyle Ashton Harris: Our first and last love
Cameron A. Granger: 9999
Nsenga Knight: Close to Home
Catalina Schliebener Muñoz: Buenos Vecinos
Cas Holman: Prototyping Play

The afternoon celebration will include artist led exhibition walkthroughs, a reception, and drop-in family art making as part of May’s Family Day.
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Schedule:

– 1:00pm to 4:00pm: Drop-in family art making workshops led by a teaching artist and the Queens Teens Institute for Art & Social Justice

– 2:00pm: Our first and last love walkthrough with Lyle Ashton Harris

– 2:30pm: Close to Home walkthrough with Nsenga Knight

– 3:00pm: Buenos Vecinos walkthrough with Catalina Schliebener Muñoz

– 3:30pm: 9999 walkthrough with Cameron A. Granger

– 4:00pm to 5:00pm: Reception with food and drinks for purchase in the Unisphere Cafe by The August Tree

Nsenga Knight: Close to Home is made possible in part by lead support from the Mellon Foundation, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, and the Ford Foundation. Additional support is provided by the Queens Museum Exhibitions Circle.

Catalina Schliebener Muñoz: Buenos Vecinos is made possible in part by lead support from the Mellon Foundation, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Ford Foundation, and a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant. Additional support is provided by the Queens Museum Exhibitions Circle.

Cas Holman: Prototyping Play is made possible in part by lead support from The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, and Richmond County Savings Foundation. Additional support is provided by the Queens Museum Exhibitions Circle.

The Queens Museum is housed in the New York City Building, which is owned by the City of New York.

The Museum is supported, in part, by public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with Mayor Eric Adams, the Queens Borough President Donovan Richards, and the New York City Council under the leadership of Speaker Adrienne E. Adams.

Major funding is generously provided by Bloomberg Philanthropies, Ford Foundation, Hearst Foundations, Jerome Foundation, Lambent Foundation, MacMillan Family Foundation, Mellon Foundation, E.A. Michelson Philanthropy, New York Community Trust, Richmond County Savings Foundation, and Rockefeller Brothers Fund.

Images: 1) Photo: Kuo-Heng Huang 2) Migration Times, 2020, Ghanaian cloth, dye sublimation prints, and artist’s ephemera, 5’ 2.5”H x 6’ 3.5”W (framed), Courtesy of the artist. 3) Nsenga Knight, Warm and Simple, 2024, silkscreen on paper and acrylic paint on canvas board, 11 x 14 inches. Courtesy the artist. 4) Catalina Schliebener Muñoz, detail view, Buenos Vecinos, 2023-2024. Paper collage. Courtesy the artist. 5) Cameron A. Granger, Here & The Along the Echo, 2024, Film, Courtesy the artist.

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