Margaret Rose Vendryes is a lecturer in Fine Arts and Director of the York College Fine Arts Gallery. Currently at York College Art Gallery as well as at the Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning’s Miller Gallery, the Southeast Queens Biennial exhibit “Writing Home: Literacy. Identity. Environment” is on display. Vendryes emphasizes on the lack of visual arts venues in Southeast Queens that artists from Queens have to display their work. All artists on display at the gallery live in Queens.
York College Professor and Chair of the Performing and Fine Arts Department, Margaret Rose Vendryes in the York College Art Gallery explaining the meaning behind her new exhibit “Writing Home: Literacy. Identity. Environment.”
“Writing Home” allows the artists to present their meaning of home and what it means to come into an environment like queens. According to Vendryes, Queens is the most diverse borough in New York City with “different cultures and languages coming together to be a neighborhood.”
Vendryes speaking with a group of York College Journalism students and Journalism professor Tom Moore, about a work of art on display at the 2020 Southeast Queens Biennial show at York College. The piece they are observing is artist Jacqueline Herranz-Brooks entitled “Contested Territory – Poesia Reptriada.”
“Contested Territory – Poesia Reptriada” by artist Jacqueline Herranz-Brooks. Herranz-Brooks displays her street poetry centered around the Cuban repatriation process she undertook in 2018. The exhibit is unconventional and interactive. The poem, which is available for visitors to take is written in Herranz-Brooks’ native language Spanish.
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