The Queens Museum’s Open A.I.R. Artist Services Program invites you to join curator and educator Laurel Ptak for a meal and informal discussion at Sik Gaek Restaurant.

Location: Sik Gaek, 49-11 Roosevelt Ave, Woodside NY, near the 52th St. 7 Train Stop.

We believe that informal no-agenda meetings can be incredibly fruitful and generative for artists. Come ask questions, discuss your work, and share a delicious meal with curator and educator Laurel Ptak and 9 other artists.

How does it work?

Answer Laurel Ptak’s question: What will be different about art by the year 2050?

By following this link: https://queensmuseum.wufoo.com/forms/dinner-without-an-agenda-with-laurel-ptak/

Please limit your answer to one line!

Submit your answer by March 23, 2015.

10 artists will be chosen based on their answers.

The event is free, appetizers are on us, but you will have to pay for your own drinks and entrees!

About Laurel Ptak
Laurel Ptak works across curatorial, artistic and pedagogical boundaries to address the social and political contours of art and technology. She has held diverse roles at non-profit art institutions including the Guggenheim Museum (New York City); Aperture Foundation (New York City); Museo Tamayo (Mexico City); Tensta Konsthall (Stockholm); among others. Together with artist Marysia Lewandowska, she is co-editor of the book Undoing Property? which explores artistic practices in relationship to immaterial production, political economy and the commons, published by Sternberg Press in 2013. Ptak’s projects are often collaborative and discursive in nature and have taken up subject matter including alternative economies, debt, feminism, intellectual property and labor. She teaches in the department of Art, Media and Technology at Parsons, The New School in New York City. In 2014 she was appointed Executive Director of Triangle Arts Association in Brooklyn, a more than 30-year-old artist residency program within an international network of arts organizations around the world. She is currently at work transforming it into a revitalized institution that actively rethinks the site of artistic production and wonders what an artist residency can be in the year 2015.

About Open A.I.R. Artist Services Program
The expanded Queens Museum features a new, expanded slate of artist services, including a brand new Studio Program, with professional development features and a networking Lecture Series that draws on human resources at the Queens Museum. Open A.I.R. programs will offer professional development topics targeted specifically to all interested emerging artists.

Open A.I.R. is made possible by a generous grant from The Scherman Foundation’s Katharine S. and Axel G. Rosin Fund. Additional support provided by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

Questions? Email sjmo@queensmuseum.org