[{"ID":21021,"post_type":"programs","title":"Families and Folk Art: New York City: Then and Now 3\/30\/19","content":"","status":"publish","date":"2019-02-19 17:45:13","name":"families-and-folk-art-new-york-city-then-and-now-3-30-19","parent":0,"modified":"2019-02-20 22:10:46","series?":"Program","category":{"term_id":35,"name":"Families","slug":"familyprograms","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":35,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":18,"count":0,"filter":"raw"},"main_image":{"ID":21022,"id":21022,"title":"thenandnow-banner","filename":"thenandnow-banner.jpg","filesize":108927,"url":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/thenandnow-banner.jpg","link":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/families-and-folk-art-new-york-city-then-and-now-3-30-19\/thenandnow-banner\/","alt":"","author":"16","description":"","caption":"","name":"thenandnow-banner","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":21021,"date":"2019-02-19 17:43:30","modified":"2019-02-19 17:43:30","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/site\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1260,"height":460,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/thenandnow-banner-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/thenandnow-banner-300x110.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":110,"medium_large":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/thenandnow-banner-768x280.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":280,"large":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/thenandnow-banner.jpg","large-width":1260,"large-height":460,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/thenandnow-banner.jpg","1536x1536-width":1260,"1536x1536-height":460,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/thenandnow-banner.jpg","2048x2048-width":1260,"2048x2048-height":460}},"list_image":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/thenandnow-list.jpg","headline":"Families and Folk Art: New York City\u2014Then and Now","di_date":"2019-03-30","excerpt":"
Through a guided tour, participants will consider how New York City has evolved over the past 200 years and create an artwork that reflects their own borough: then and now.<\/p>\n","start_time":"1:00 pm","end_time":"2:00 pm","admission":"Free; registration required","main_content":"
In the galleries, families will explore the landscape of nineteenth\u00a0century New York City. Nearly unrecognizable to New Yorkers now, farmland dominated many of the boroughs until 1898, when the separate cities of Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, and Staten Island joined Manhattan to make up what we now know as New York City. Through a guided tour, participants will consider how our city has evolved over the past 200 years and create an artwork that reflects their own borough: then and now.<\/p>\n
Families and Folk Art introduces children ages 4 to 12 and their accompanying adults to folk art through interactive discussion-based tours in the galleries followed by hands-on artmaking activities inspired by objects in the museum. Space is limited; registration required. More info: 212. 265. 1040, ext. 381, or familyprograms@folkartmuseum.org<\/a><\/p>\n Families and Folk Art is supported by the estate of Marlene Gordon.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Image:<\/strong>\u00a0The Third Avenue Railroad Depot;<\/em> William H. Schenck (active c. 1854\u20131864); New York City; c. 1859\u20131860; oil on canvas; 36 x 50 in.; collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, bequest of Edward W. C. Arnold, 1954, 54.90.178. Image copyright: \u00a9The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Image source: Art Resource, NY.<\/span><\/p>\n","show_in_past_programs":true,"reserve_text":"Register","reserve_link":"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/families-and-folk-art-new-york-city-then-now-tickets-56673303376","day":"30","month":"Mar","year":"2019","link":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/families-and-folk-art-new-york-city-then-and-now-3-30-19\/"},{"ID":21192,"post_type":"programs","title":"Best of the Boroughs: Staten Island Day 3\/30\/19","content":"","status":"publish","date":"2019-03-05 16:06:32","name":"best-of-the-boroughs-staten-island-day","parent":0,"modified":"2019-03-26 18:13:49","series?":"Program","category":{"term_id":31,"name":"Special Events","slug":"special-events","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":31,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":18,"count":0,"filter":"raw"},"main_image":{"ID":21202,"id":21202,"title":"BOB-staten-island-banner","filename":"BOB-staten-island-banner.jpg","filesize":414050,"url":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/BOB-staten-island-banner.jpg","link":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/best-of-the-boroughs-staten-island-day\/bob-staten-island-banner\/","alt":"","author":"16","description":"","caption":"","name":"bob-staten-island-banner","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":21192,"date":"2019-03-05 16:03:38","modified":"2019-03-05 16:03:38","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/site\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1260,"height":460,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/BOB-staten-island-banner-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/BOB-staten-island-banner-300x110.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":110,"medium_large":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/BOB-staten-island-banner-768x280.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":280,"large":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/BOB-staten-island-banner.jpg","large-width":1260,"large-height":460,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/BOB-staten-island-banner.jpg","1536x1536-width":1260,"1536x1536-height":460,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/BOB-staten-island-banner.jpg","2048x2048-width":1260,"2048x2048-height":460}},"list_image":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/BOB-staten-island-list.jpg","headline":"Best of the Boroughs: Staten Island Day","di_date":"2019-03-30","excerpt":" This spring, celebrate your city at the American Folk Art Museum. Join us for a five-part series celebrating the contributions, communities, histories, cultures, music, and food of each of New York City\u2019s five boroughs.<\/p>\n","start_time":"11:30 am","end_time":"7:00 pm","admission":"Free; registration recommended","main_content":" This spring, celebrate your city at the American Folk Art Museum. Join us for a five-part series celebrating the contributions, communities, histories, cultures, music, and food of each of New York City\u2019s five boroughs. This multi-day festival is offered in conjunction with the exhibition\u00a0Made in New York City: The Business of Folk Art<\/a> <\/i>(March 19\u2013July 28, 2019).<\/p>\n This series is free and open to all.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Staten Island Day Activities:<\/span><\/p>\n 1 pm\u00a0\u00a0Families and Folk Art: New York City\u2014Then and Now<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n 2 pm\u00a0\u00a0Closer-Look Tour<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n 3 pm\u00a0\u00a0Gallery talk with Victoria Munro,<\/strong> executive director, Alice Austen House<\/a><\/p>\n A special family scavenger hunt will be available all day long.<\/p>\n Baked goods will be provided by Mark’s Bake Shoppe<\/a> throughout the day.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Victoria Munro<\/strong> (b. 1975, Wellington, New Zealand) has been a resident of New York for more than two decades and lives on the North Shore of Staten Island with her partner and their two children. Munro is the executive director of the Alice Austen House,<\/a> a nationally designated site of LGBTQ history and the only museum in the United States to represent the work of one women photographer, Alice Austen. Munro is an artist, art and art history educator and curator. She represents the Alice Austen House Museum in the Stonewall 50 Consortium, an organization of institutions and organizations committed to producing programming, exhibitions, and educational materials related to the Stonewall uprising and\/or the history of the LGBTQ civil rights movement anchored to and\/or commemorating the upcoming June 2019 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprising<\/a>.\u00a0Munro has been the lead interpretation and project manager of the Alice Austen House updated permanent installation and LGBTQ+ programs director.<\/p>\n Alice Austen House:<\/strong> Alice Austen (1866\u20131952) captured a changing New York City in more than 7,000 photographs taken mostly around the turn of the twentieth century. Austen documented her life on Staten Island and went onto the streets of Manhattan to photograph the activities of immigrants and the working class. She was versatile and forged her own path beyond the restrictive Victorian expectations for women. Austen was a master tennis player, an early advocate for women riding bicycles, founder of the Staten Island Garden Club, and is said to be the first woman on Staten Island to own a car.<\/p>\n A vibrant cultural center, the Alice Austen House keeps the daring spirit of the early American photographer alive by presenting changing exhibitions of Alice Austen\u2019s pioneering historic photographs and of contemporary photography, providing education programs for students and offering a range of cultural programs for the public.<\/p>\n In June 2017, the Alice Austen House, where Austen and her life partner, Gertrude Tate, lived together for nearly thirty years, marked its national designation as a site of LGBTQ history. The museum\u2019s listing on the National Register of Historic Places<\/a> was amended to include LGBTQ history as an area of significance. This was an achievement of the NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project<\/a>, funded through a grant from the New York State Historic Preservation Office and made possible by the National Park Service.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Learn more about Staten Island from our event partner\u00a0Historic Richmond Town<\/b><\/a>\u00a0<\/b>in Staten Island, which is offering a tour on Friday, March 29 at 2 pm. Fridays are suggested donation day.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n