Cultural Redress - exhibition

Free Watercolor Painting Class!

Join Queens-based artist and educator Beth Bailis to learn more about watercolor painting in this free class!

Wednesdays, September 20, 27 and October 4, 6:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Queens Library Gallery

Attendance at all 3 sessions is required. Space is limited and registration is required. Ages 18 and up, all materials provided.

Free Drawing Class!

Join Queens-based artist and educator Michael Poast to learn more about drawing in this free class!

Thursdays, September 14, 21 and 28, 6:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Queens Library Gallery

Attendance at all 3 sessions is required. Space is limited and registration is required. Ages 18 and up, all materials provided.

To register, or for more information, please contact the gallery at
(718) 990-8665.

Gallery Talk

Join exhibition curator Juliana Driever in a discussion of the exhibition, Cultural Redress. Learn more about the works in the exhibition and the Index of American Design, a WPA project.

Thursday, September 7, 7:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Thursday, October 5, 6:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Queens Library Gallery

Clothes Make the Man But Diamonds are a Girl’s Best Friend

A Talk with Myra Albert
Join art and history enthusiast Myra Albert for an illuminating slide presentation about jewelry and fashion from the 1920’s through today.

Saturday, October 7, 2:00 p.m.
Central Library Auditorium

Cotton Printed with a Portrait of a Military Hero
Eleanor Ruelos (dates unknown),
New York, NY; circa 1937
Watercolor on paper, 9x11 ½”
Original textile courtesy of Mrs. Bentley Hasell Stevenson, Huntington, NY
Collection of the Queens Library on long term loan from the U.S. General Services Administration

For more information
please contact the Gallery
at 718.990.8665.

Admission to
all programs is free.

This exhibition has been sponsored in part by the American Express Company and The Bay and Paul Foundations. Additional funding for our public programs has been made possible by the Queens Council on the Arts with public funding from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.