Event: “Imaginary Fossils” Workshop as part of Escuelita en Casa’s Anniversary Celebration at the Queens Museum, Parade and Ceremony
Imaginary Fossils Workshop Date and Time: Sunday, April 24, 2022, 12:30-2:00 PM
Program Timeline: April 24, 2022 from 12:30-4:00 PM
12:30-2:00 PM Imaginary Fossils Workshop Queens Museum
2:30-3:00 PM Parade around Unisphere
3:00-3:30 PM Land Ceremony and Remarks at Endangered Fossils
Location: The Queens Museum and Unisphere, Flushing Meadows Corona Park
The Queens Museum: Workshop and Processional Details
Ancestral Future evokes the urgency into taking action to preserve our present planet to future generations. We take a glance into Ancestral Civilizations to learn about the relationship they had with our now endangered planet.
The celebration will start with an Imaginary Fossils Art Workshop led by artist Judith Modrak hosted at the Queens Museum, followed by a parade around the Unisphere to finish with an offering to our planet’s fragility represented by Judith Modrak’s sculpture: Endangered Fossils.
It will be an honor to see you there to celebrate the future we are creating. We will have music, dance and an ancestral ceremony from the Aztecs.
~Escuelita en Casa
Earth Week Celebration
Thursday, April 21 through Sunday, April 24
Each day from 12:30-2:00pm families are invited to drop in for a celebration of Earth Week with a variety of art-making activities. Activities will focus on eco-conscious art projects and reusable materials.
Join us in a culminating celebration on Sunday, April 24th. In this workshop families are invited to imagine and create future fossils inspired by real fossils. Special guest, Judith Modrak will join us on this program to tell us about the inspiration for her artwork “Endangered Fossils”, located just outside the Queens Museum.
Families will have the opportunity to participate in an Earth Day Processional Parade (2:30-3:00pm) after the workshop, ending with an offering to our planet’s fragility represented by Judith Modrak’s sculpture (3:30pm).
~Queens Museum
Fósiles en peligro de extinción representa una excavación arqueológica figurada del gran registro fósil del estado de Nueva York. Las esculturas están inspiradas en los trilobites, braquiópodos y crinoideos que florecieron durante el período Devónico, hace 400 millones de años. Estos organismos similares al cangrejo, la almeja y la estrella de mar vivían en ambientes marinos muy similares a los arrecifes de coral de hoy en día. El proyecto reflexiona sobre el origen del ecosistema que habitamos y nuestro papel, relación y responsabilidad con ese medio ambiente a la luz del catastrófico cambio climático y las pandemias mundiales.