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    Tina Seligman is Mixed media visual artist, composer, curator and writer, Tina Seligman has been a teaching Artist-in-Residence at Flushing Council on Culture and the Arts since 2000. Her workshops for visiting classes integrate hands-on projects with academic curriculum, art history, and related music to offer a multi-sensory experience. Tina has created and facilitated art programs for CASA, Parents as Art Partners, and NYSCA Artist-in-Residence Mentor grants, as well as for in-school residencies. In 2004, she was invited to serve as a panelist for the Arts in the Schools Grant Program through Queens Council on the Arts. Represented by Cheryl McGinnis Gallery in Manhattan since 2006, Tina’s artwork resides in corporate and private collections. In 2011, artist George Xiong used her September Etude for flute, recorded by Jo Brand, as an accompaniment to a video about his series of contemporary Chinese seal paintings. As an art journalist, she has written for Art of the Times magazine, and her poetry has been published by P.S. 1 Contemporary Museum website, The Moon as Text, and Cicada Haiku Quarterly, among other periodicals.

    LUNAR NEW YEAR SHADOW PUPPETS (for all ages)
    Following a lively interactive discussion with images about Lunar New Year traditions and symbolism inspired by the auspicious Chinese Dragon which brings wisdom, great health and prosperity, participants will create their own dragons inspired by Chinese Shadow puppets while listening to Chinese music. Choosing from a variety of dragon-shaped patterns, students will have step-by-step instruction for constructing the puppets, and are encouraged to experiment with the materials to create their unique style. A stage is provided to earn how to manipulate the shadows. The dragon would be replaced by other Chinese Zodiac animals, depending on the year in which the workshop is offered.

    DUTCH-STYLE DELFT PLATES: Flushing Then and Now (for all ages)
    Inspired by blue and white Chinese ceramics produced in Delft, Holland and in England, Delftware pottery was later replicated during the 1939 and 1964 Flushing World’s Fairs in the form of commemorative souvenir plates. The history of the Dutch settlement in Flushing, named after Holland’s city of Vlissingen, will be presented along with contemporary images of the neighborhood. Following a demonstration, students will use paper plates, blue markers, crayons, oil pastels and pencils to combine Dutch imagery with contemporary images of Flushing to create Delft-style plates. A CD of flute music by 17th Century Dutch composer, Jacob van Eyck will be played while participants are creating their work

    LOUIS ARMSTRONG JAZZ COLLAGE JAM (creating musical instruments with collage) (for all ages)
    Following a lively interactive discussion on collage inspired by Louis Armstrong’s collages and work by contemporary sound artists, participants will create percussion instruments using everyday paper cups and recycled and found materials. We will listen to the “sound of numbers,” and use the finished instruments to jam with Satchmo’s music to experience how jazz artists converse with each other. Connections between musical and visual storytelling, rhythms, colors, shapes, patterns, use of text (including onomatopoeia), and compositional elements will be discussed during the demonstration.

    Gabrielle Hamilton,

    Director of Education & Public Programs

    718-463-7700 x239, ghamilton@flushingtownhall.org

    JiYoung Kim, Education Coordinator

    718-463-7700 x241. jkim@flushingtownhall.org

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