Upcoming at the Voelker Orth Museum:
Tarot for Artists: Exploring Symbol, Archetype and Dream
Saturday, October 25. 1:00pm
What do tarot and painting have in common? The art of interpretation.
Reading tarot and experiencing a painting both require slowing down, observing carefully, and tuning in to how the body and mind respond. In each, meaning is teased out—symbols, materials, and contexts become tools of transmission, ways of understanding a feeling.
This Tarot 101 Workshop is for any novice, but designed with a specific audience in mind: artists, visual thinkers, and art history lovers. Participants will explore Symbols, Archetypes, and Dreams as entry points to reading tarot, made visible through the vocabulary of art.
The workshop examines the traditional iconography of the Rider–Waite tarot deck, investigates the four suits, their astrological correlations, and the Fool’s Journey through the Major Arcana, and explores tarot spreads, where meaning overlaps and unfolds through dream logic—both in art and nightly visions, as doors to the unconscious.
Open to all levels, this workshop invites artists and non-artists alike to explore new ways of seeing, sensing, and interpreting through image and symbol.
Admission $5/ members $4. Light refreshments served following the presentation.
Notable Notes: Collaged Covers Workshop
Sunday, November 2, 1:30-3:30pm
Be inspired with the collection of postage stamps, vintage prints, fashion plates, and other decorative elements to create a collage cover for a new album, journal or sketch book. Phyllis Ger brings together a great assortment of images and materials for creating a unique album cover.
Whether you are a writer, a visual artist or creating an album as a gift, start with a well designed cover. We’ll have assorted blank books to use, or bring a special one to cover.
Workshop fee $5/ Members $4.
Fall Follies: Vintage Cartoons
Sunday, November 9, 2pm
Experience the magical world of cartoon animation with film historian Thomas Jose Stathes. It’s a special Fall program drawn from Stathes' extensive collection of films form the 1920s-40s. Stathes has been collecting the works of popular and oft forgotten animators whose works still delight and amuse audiences today.
The screening at the Museum is projected 16mm film, as it was often shown in homes through the mid-20th century. For children and adults of all ages.
Light refreshments served after the screening. Admission $5, children under 3, free. Museum members $4.
Decorative Medallions
Sunday, November 23, 1:30-3:30pm
Create a special ornament that can be hung on a wall or added to a holiday tree. We’ll be embedding gems, buttons, and decorative objects in self-drying clay shapes. The variations are endless - once you’ve assembled your first medallion. Materials provided. Phyllis Ger, instructor.
Workshop fee: $5/ $4 Members Suitable for teens, tweens & adults
Save the date: The Annual Holly Tour will be held on Sunday, December 14th.
Abstract Reality: Greta Jaklitsch Photographs
Opening Reception: Sept 24, 2-4pm
Unaltered, unfiltered, a glimpse of the world around us, Greta Jaklitsch photographs with 35mm film. Jaklitsch was one of the first artists shown at the Museum and this exhibition is a 20th Anniversary event.
Many of her most striking images are captured in parks, on walks, and observing things that are here in Queens. This exhibition brings together images that explore pattern or playfully abstract composition.
Stories and Snacks: A Festival of Home Cooking
The Queens Memory Project and the Voelker Orth Museum are partnering for a festival of home cooking in Flushing, Queens.
This inaugural festival is an immersive celebration of food and cultural memory. Activate your senses and connect to the diversity of Queens culinary traditions as you explore the Voelker Orth House and its Victorian garden.
Hear from experts on history and cooking, taste samples from local food vendors, and swap family stories and recipes. See how to preserve a record of your family’s home cooking traditions, and get creative in hands-on family workshops.
Join us to add your stories, heritage, and food traditions to the living history of Queens!
The Latehomecoming: Literature to Life Workshop
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In this intimate workshop led by teaching artist Aurea Tomeski, participants will discuss questions of home, identity, and belonging. Actor Gaosong Heu will perform excerpts from The Latehomecomer by Kao Kalia Yang as a means of exploring the themes of immigration in the memoir.
Attendees will have the opportunity to reflect through small discussions and writing prompts.
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Tickets include happy hour, house tours, and garden viewing.
First twenty registrants also receive complimentary tickets to the full performance of The Latehomecomer at the Kupferberg Center for the Arts on Friday, May 5 at 8PM.
$15/per person | $10/students and VO members.
Limited spots available.
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Based on the memoir The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir by Kao Kalia Yang, © 2008, published by Coffee House Press. Performed by Gaosong Heu
Adapted by Aurea Tomeski & Elise Thoron. Directed by Elise Thoron
For more about Literature to Life’s arts and literacy programs, please contact Lisa Beth Vettoso at Literature to Life: lisa.v@literaturetolife.org or learn more online at www.literaturetolife.org.
