See More Children's Museum of the Arts 11/28/23 Interviews "You're wonderful." Artist Liana Finck on visiting MoMA as a child and creating a paper house with her mother. NEXT IN

The Look Make Show ingrid romero Artist in Residence 2022-23 Children's Museum of the Arts New York City ingrid romero (they/them) is an artist, educator and organizer, born and raised in New York City — the unceded, traditional lands of the Munsee / Lenape — with deep roots in the Andes of Colombia. ingrid has been organizing for fifteen years, and brings ten years of facilitation, teaching artistry, and youth work experience. ingrid has completed training and fellowships from School of Unity & Liberation (SOUL), Third World Newsreel, Teaching Artist Project (TAP), and The Laundromat Project. They are a collective member at Mayday Space in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Courses News Reading Lists Interviews (Authored) Interviews (Subject) Everyday People on Everyday Things ingrid's First Course ©2023 Children's Museum of the Arts

See More Children's Museum of the Arts 2/2/24 Artists in Schools Animal Cloud Sculptures Part I: Creating the Frame Dispatches from CMA Resident Artist Noormah Jamal's fifth grade class at Children's Workshop School. NEXT IN

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10/5/23 Interviews "Studio practice is something that you develop over time and take with you wherever you go." Artist Judd Schiffman on the sculpture he returns to again and again. Click to expand media gallery. Great artists make artists. And to prove that point, over 70 of today's greatest have contributed their work in support of Children's Museum of the Arts' Emergency Arts Education Fund , establishing utterly ambitious art programs in New York City schools that need them most. Bidding for the online auction concludes Thursday, October 19 at 12 PM EDT . Bid now. Bid often. Bid here. Below, meet auction artist Judd Schiffman . Artwork by Judd's daughter, age 6 Do you have a favorite memory of making art as a child? I drew the invitation to my Bar Mitzvah when I was 12. I used pen and ink and finished it at my Dad’s desk. I had never used ink before and my dad taught me how to cross hatch. It took several afternoons to complete, and I was very happy with the result. It was a copy of a drawing of an old Rabbi…I don’t know who the artist was, but I remember feeling connected to the original artist, and to the quiet of the room where I was drawing. I also remember making a drawing the first day it snowed when I was seven or eight. It felt like an important event to commemorate. What advice would you give to young artists who wish to pursue an art practice? Persevere. Studio practice is something that you develop over time and take with you wherever you go. It is a way of looking at, and navigating the world – unique to each artist. Don’t be afraid of failure. How does working with children inspire you? Children see the world clearly and their creative expressions are pure. Children are the best teachers. When did you first know you were going to be an artist? I knew my whole life but I did not decide to pursue it seriously until I was 23. Can you describe a formative experience visiting a museum or gallery? There is a very large wooden Buddha at the RISD Museum in Providence, RI. It was the first museum I visited as a child and we went there on a class trip. I was in awe. I went back to draw the Buddha a lot as a teenager, and then again in my 20s. I return every so often and draw the same Buddha. Judd Schiffman In My Own Image porcelain, stoneware, glaze, gold luster Bid Now NEXT Emergency Exhibition: New Training for Future Artists and Art Lovers Take a Virtual Tour on Bloomberg Connects Donate Now

6/6/24 Artists in Schools Now Playing: Swimmy by Leo Leoni Students at PS 33M debut their animated film created with the assistance of CMA Artist Instructors Larkin Grimm and Gonzalo Miñano. Click to expand media gallery. We are incredibly proud to debut Swimmy by Leo Leoni , the new animated film created by kindergarten and first graders at PS 33M Chelsea Prep! Over the course of 7 weeks, students from 8 (!) different classes worked together to conceptualize, build, write, and record an animated film completely of their choosing. The resulting film celebrates what's possible when children are given the time, resources, and guidance to create ambitious works of art. Check it out below! CMA Artist Instructor Larkin Grimm reflects on the project: "I've been making fun, somewhat chaotic stop-motion videos with Chelsea Prep students for a few years now, and this year I wanted to try something new — getting all the students to work together to create a long-form story by asking each classroom to animate one or two scenes of the film and compiling them into one cohesive narrative. We chose to animate Swimmy because the multitude of sea creatures in the story provided an opportunity for every student to create and animate a character. It's also a story about the power of working together, so the message echoed our filmmaking process. We had four kindergarten classes and four first grade classes working with us, and we assigned each class a setting and a scene to animate. Sometimes we would take backgrounds from one class to the next for continuity, and the clay characters ended up traveling all over the school with us. We had a whole pile of little red fish that we would carry around in a basket from class to class, and kids were constantly generating more and more sea creatures to include in our film. We recorded the narration over several days, asking the kids to speak the sentences line by line until it was clear enough for anyone to understand. The hardest part was compiling all of our clips from the five iPads we used in each of 8 classrooms and putting them all in the right order! Gonzalo deserves a prize for his editing work. Every child in every class contributed significantly to this project — molding clay animals, designing backgrounds, and animating the movements step-by-step. We hope that they will all be proud of this film and will come away with an understanding that anything is possible when we learn to work together!" This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the New York City Council. With special thanks to NYC District 3 Council Member Erik Bottcher and Motoko Shoboji. NEXT Emergency Exhibition: New Training for Future Artists and Art Lovers Take a Virtual Tour on Bloomberg Connects Donate Now

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See More Children's Museum of the Arts 1/11/24 Artists in Schools Broken Pineapples and Bunny Baskets Dispatches from CMA Resident Artist Maria D. Rapicavoli's after school class at Hudson Guild. NEXT IN

3/1/24 Artists in Schools Figure Drawing and Line Quality Dispatches from CMA Resident Artist Noormah Jamal's fifth grade class at Children's Workshop School. Click to expand media gallery. This week was all about figure drawing, focusing on line quality using pencil. Students honed their observational skills as they looked at images of different poses. They focused on simple lines showing movement, proportion, and weight placement of the body. They also compared and contrasted reference images by David Hockney and Alexander Trifonov, noting how Hockney’s work is more representational, while Trifonov's work leans more towards abstraction. Alexander Trifonov, Tango, oil on canvas When asked to describe Hockney’s work, one student exclaimed “There's a depressed guy sitting with his cat clearly not happy with the lady he's with.” It’s fair to say that our students have top notch observational skills! David Hockney, Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy, 1970-71, acrylic paint on canvas. Collection Tate Modern, London © David Hockney Noormah’s work at Children’s Workshop School is supported by the Emergency Arts Education Fund , which provides free arts education to NYC school communities whose art programs have been decimated by recent budget cuts. Children’s Museum of the Arts’ three Residents Artists are currently implementing ambitious arts curriculum at each of our partner sites throughout New York City: Hudson Guild in Chelsea, Sid Miller Academy in Crown Heights, and Children’s Workshop School in the East Village. Come spring, our residents will showcase their students' work through exhibitions and installations across the city. Learn how you can support the work of our residents here . NEXT Emergency Exhibition: New Training for Future Artists and Art Lovers Take a Virtual Tour on Bloomberg Connects Donate Now

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