Upcoming at the Voelker Orth Museum:
Printing with Gelli Plates
Sunday, January 25, 1 - 3:30pm
Explore gelli plate print-making this winter.
Learn a variety of monoprint techniques including stenciling. This fun-filled medium is fast moving and full of surprise4s. Gelli prints are used for wall hung art, artist’s books, cards, collages and scrapbooking.
Helaine Soller, instructor.
Suitable for adults, teens, and tweens. Registration per session $10 / Members $8.
Community Block Quilt Workshop
Sunday, February 8, 1-4pm
Wiinter-time quilting brings community members together. This workshop is suited to new and experienced quilters, alike. We’ll be creating hand-stitched blocks that become part of a larger red and white quilt. Participants also go home with a kit to continue stitching on their own.
We will be sewing together squares by hand, using a historic method that, much like our communities and the Voelker Orth Museum itself, stands the test of time.
Noelle Salaun, instructor.
The workshop is suitable for adults, teens and tweens.
Registration $10 / $8 for Members.
Memory Wire Bracelets Workshop
Sunday, February 15, 1:30-3:30
Adorn your wrist! Fashion new wearable art at this holiday weekend workshop.
There’s a fabulous selection of beads to create your wrist-wear.
Instructor Phyllis Ger offers tips on working with memory wire and designing bracelets.
Workshop suitable for adults, teens and tweens.
Registration $10 / $8 for Members
For the Birds: Winter Break Family Fun
Wednesday & Sunday, February 18 & 22, 1 - 3:30
Birding and bird care are year-round activities at the Voelker Orth Museum. Join us for family-friendly, informative hands-on afternoons dedicated to our feathered friends.
Urban wild birds can use a little TLC in winter so we’ll make decorative bird feeders you can place near home. Learn how to use binoculars and observe birds in the wild. Create a bird journal to track your observations throughout the year. Discover resources to help identify New York area birds and great places to observe them.
Additional art and exploration activities. Light refreshments served. Admission $4 / $10 for Family. Children under 3 years old, free.
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.
