Tomashi Jackson: Moon Folk: Passages Toward Greater Understanding Exhibition Friday, March 18, 2022 All Day St. John's Terminal 550 Washington Street, New York, NY, USA Media Inquiries: adam@culturalcounsel.com RSVP Children’s Museum of the Arts partners with public art organization ArtBridge to present Moon Folk: Passages Toward Greater Understanding , a new mural by multimedia artist Tomashi Jackson located in Manhattan’s Hudson Square . The mural is accompanied by artistic responses to Tomashi’s work by NYC youth ages 3-12 . The final exhibition is presented outside Google 's new campus at St. John’s Terminal , located at 550 Washington Street , developed by Oxford Properties . The exhibition is meant to suggest the possibility of outpourings of radiant and peace-filled communication, and to provoke discourse, documentation, and new designs on the subject of peace for and by children. The partnership between CMA and ArtBridge highlights the Museum’s continued commitment to inspiring global conversations and fostering meaningful ties between the children of New York and the greater artistic community. The installation is produced by ArtBridge with support from Google and Oxford Properties. Made possible by City Canvas, an initiative of the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs that transforms the city’s temporary protective structures into sites for the display of art driven by collaboration between local artists and communities. Programs at Children’s Museum of the Arts are supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. Donate Now

3/25/24 Artists in Schools Cardboard Tube Telescopes Dispatches from CMA Resident Artist Maria D. Rapicavoli's after school class at Hudson Guild. Click to expand media gallery. Last week, students visited two exhibitions and Maria’s studio at Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts . The experience proved to be deeply fulfilling as the children not only gained insight into how an artist works, but had the chance to immerse themselves in multimedia exhibitions, leaving a lasting impression on their young minds. The best part was taking turns peering through Maria’s hand-carved alabaster telescope. Inspired by Galileo's first telescope and commissioned by Socrates Sculpture Park in Queens, A Starry Messenger presents a composite image sourced from satellite surveillance images that is visible when looking through the telescope lens. Back at Hudson Guild, students crafted their own telescopes and even created tiny images to view through the lens. They loved the challenge of finding the right balance of the telescope’s three legs. All they need are safety glasses and they’ll be ready for the eclipse! One student sketched all of the artworks she saw at EFA, including a rotating chicken sculpture and cat plushies in Running Joke and Maria’s telescope. It’s safe to say that the field trip left a lasting impression on our students! Maria's work at Hudson Guild 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 Noormah Jamal at Children's Workshop School Patterns and Pop Art Donate Now

3/26/24 Kids Art 7 Architectural Structures from CMA’s Collection of Children’s Art ​ Click to expand media gallery. Allison Georgina Deakin The House of My Imagination Age 11 International School of Brussels Brussels, Belgium Bernard Garcia Age 11 Santo Domingo Pueblo Elementary Kewa Pueblo, New Mexico Olivia Lillian Martinez Age 12 USA Heidi Kuukka The Street Where I Live Age 11 Lappeenrannan Taideyhdistyksen Lappeenranta, Finland Arman-Re Jack Age 7 Harlem School of the Arts New York, NY Mile Babic The Multicolored World Age 11 Jovan Jovanović Zmaj Grammar School Novi Sad, Yugoslavia (now Serbia) Thubten Tsering The House of Sin Age 9 Tibetan Children's Village Dharamsala Cantt, India NEXT Noormah Jamal at Children's Workshop School Patterns and Pop Art Donate Now

2/21/24 Artists in Schools Papier Mâché Part 1: Lessons from an Expert Dispatches from CMA Resident Artist Maria D. Rapicavoli's after school class at Hudson Guild. Click to expand media gallery. Students were treated to a hands-on lesson from a very special guest artist – our very own intern Eva! Eva explained how inexpensive materials like paper, glue, and paint can be combined to create a large-scale lightweight sculpture, like her octopus. Students LOVED seeing Eva’s work in person! As with most art techniques, papier mâché is a step-by-step process, and it all starts with a sketch. After sketching ideas for their sculpture, students used aluminum foil to create a rough shape for their project. Next, they used metal wire, wood, tape, and glue to build a defined structure for the wet paper to adhere to. The following day, children covered their structures with layers of newspaper strips dipped in a paste made of glue and water. Students loved the versatility of the medium and pushed their creativity to the limits as they came up with different sizes and shapes for their sculptures. Maria's work at Hudson Guild 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 Noormah Jamal at Children's Workshop School Patterns and Pop Art Donate Now

12/14/22 Reading Lists Devin Kenny Shares a Peek at His Bookshelf The authors and ideas behind the multi-hyphenate creative's practice. Click to expand media gallery. CMA Artists in Residence were treated to a a studio visit with artist Devin Kenny , who graciously shared with us his reading list and abbreviated syllabus. In Devin's words, “These selections are ones meant to widen and challenge some of the most common understandings of contemporary culture and the activity of art. They are meant to offer questions about what it might mean to pursue the activity of creating cultural products in the present, and also different ways of thinking about what we may want to create together and individually — what we may want to share as artists, as teachers, and as people in society.” Society of the Spectacle (1967) Guy Debord How to Make a Happening (1966) Allan Kaprow Teaching to Transgress (1994) bell hooks Chromophobia (2000) David Batchelor Glitch Feminism (2020) Legacy Russell The Mundane Afrofuturist Manifesto (2013) Martine Syms Dada Manifesto (1918) Tristan Tzara Devin Kenny is an artist, writer, and musician, and dPhil Candidate in Fine Art at the University of Oxford. Born on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois, Kenny relocated to New York City as a teenager. Kenny went on to receive a Master of Fine Arts from University of California, Los Angeles, in addition to attending the Whitney Independent Study Program in New York. Kenny has participated in residencies at the Rauschenberg Foundation, SOMA Mexico, Bemis Center, MFAH Core, Shandaken Projects, and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Kenny has exhibited, performed, and lectured across the United States and in galleries and institutions abroad. Select venues include MoMA PS1, The Kitchen, Performance Space, REDCAT, Queens Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara, and the IMT Gallery in London, among others. Kenny (as Devin KKenny) has a first official release NY Lottery/CBD Kratom , out now from PTP, a New York-based audio collective focused on sound art, noise, HipHop and more. Follow along with Devin at @crashingwavy NEXT Noormah Jamal at Children's Workshop School Patterns and Pop Art Donate Now

9/15/23 Kids Art 3 Playgrounds from CMA's Permanent Collection of Children's Art ​ Click to expand media gallery. Unknown Artist Untitled Age 7 USA Kwame Rosario Untitled Age 6 United Nations International School New York, NY Annie Pilcher My House Age 12 Saint Ann's Special School Adelaide, Australia NEXT Noormah Jamal at Children's Workshop School Patterns and Pop Art Donate Now

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Naomi Momoh ​ Artist ​ Naomi Momoh creates works on paper, sculpture, and installation, with a focus on fibers and found forms. Naomi's work investigates the intersections between race and gender from the point of view of her childhood. Traumas experienced during her childhood, due to these chaotic intersections, are expressed through - physical deconstruction of toys / poetic deconstruction of children’s literature / fabric printing / intuitive sewing. Attempts to rebuild these memories and reconcile with her present. These memories are soft scraps / jagged soft forms colliding/ incomplete text that represent this cycle. Donate Now Since 1988

Gary Carrion-Murayari Kraus Family Curator New Museum ​ Gary Carrion-Murayari is Kraus Family Curator at the New Museum. Since joined the staff in 2010, Carrion-Murayari has curated monographic exhibitions of a number of artists including Phyllida Barlow, Nathalie Djurberg, Ellen Gallagher, Haroon Mirza and Jim Shaw. He has also co-curated group exhibitions such as ‘Ghosts in the Machine,’(2012) ‘NYC 1993’(2013) and ‘Here and Elsewhere’(2014). Carrion-Murayari worked at the Whitney Museum of American Art from 2003 to 2010, where he organized solo exhibitions including Elad Lassry and Karthik Pandian, and co-curated exhibitions such as ‘Television Delivers People’ (2007) and ‘Progress’ (2008). He co-curated the 2010 Whitney Biennial with Francesco Bonami. He has contributed numerous exhibitions catalogues and art magazines, and has edited several New Museum catalogues. Donate Now Since 1988

Bea Scaccia ​ Artist ​ Beatrice Scaccia (b. 1978, Frosinone, Italy, lives and works in New York) is an artist and writer. Her visual works, which take the form of drawings, paintings, and digital animations, explore the absurdity of the human condition. She has had solo exhibitions at venues including the Katonah Museum of Art, New York (2021); Cuchifritos Gallery, New York (2014); and Ugo Ferranti Gallery, Rome (2010). Her work has been included in group exhibitions at Magazzino Italian Art, New York (2020); The Center for the less Good Idea, Johannesburg (2020); American University’s Katzen Arts Center, Washington, D.C. (2016); and AIR Gallery, New York (2011), among others. Her work is included in several public and private collections, including the William Louis-Dreyfus Foundation and the Portland Museum of Art. Donate Now Since 1988