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A four-day multicultural arts festival featuring cultural presentations, panel discussions, and workshops, highlighting immigrant, Indigenous, and Native American artists representing diverse communities of Southeast Queens.
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Building Equity Project
Building Equity Project Programs
Building Equity for Immigrant, Indigenous and Native American Artists is a pilot program from JCAL. Supported by a grant from New York Community Trust, it is dedicated to researching, engaging and promoting underrepresented artists in our community, and to providing greater access for audiences to see and to experience their work.
Recent programs include 500 Years & Counting: The East Coast Blind Spot; Indigenous Peoples of the Caribbean: A Focus on the Taíno; Puerto Rico Update with Prolibertad; and Film & Music: Sounds of Siberia. All the recordings of these live-streamed events are available on our Youtube channel.
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Upcoming Exhibition
Process -> Project: What Comes Out of Our Sketchbooks
February 4–March 20, 2021
On view at JCAL's Miller Gallery and online
JCAL is excited to partner with the Southeast Queens Artist Alliance to present Process → Project: What Comes Out of Our Sketchbooks, curated by Rejin Leys and Damali Abrams.
This exhibition will present sketches, both loose and bound, by working artists with diverse practices: writing, painting, drawing, photography, collage, assemblage, sculpture, and paper-making. The shared act of sketching unites them.
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