YEAR OF
UNCERTAINTY

Welcome to the digital platform for the Queens Museum’s Year of Uncertainty! This blog traces and chronicles a year of conversation, experimentation, and reflection among stakeholders and members of our communities, centering five themes: Care, Repair, Play, Justice, The Future. The navigation bar below can guide your experience through this collaborative and unfiltered project. Enjoy yourself!

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A dry erase board with covered in purple text. The largest text at the top-center reads ‘Think, repair, share’ above ‘NYC SCHOOLS’.

Gabo Camnitzer

July 1, 2022

Group of children standing and sitting show off their works of art by raising it in the air. They hold their art high with pride. Their artwork looks like circular cardboard with holes where strings of ribbon dangle. Along the sides there are a couple of adults also sitting and standing. The ground is concrete and behind them are a series of portraits on fabric of male identified individuals. Grupo de niños en pie y sentados mostrando sus obras de arte levantándolas en el aire. Mantienen su arte en alto con orgullo. Su obra de arte parece como cartón circular con agujeros donde cuelgan hilos de cinta. A los lados hay un par de adultos también sentados y de pie. El suelo es de cemento y detrás de ellos hay una serie de retratos sobre tela de individuos identificados como masculinos.

Queens Museum Staff

December 10, 2021

A digital rendering of artist Vaimoana Niumeitolu’s community mural in Astoria, Queens. The mural features multicolored, Mandala-inspired geometrical structures composed of circles, triangles, and Oriental patterns. A miniature Unisphere appears in the center of one of the large the circular shapes.

Malikah

November 4, 2021

A composite image made up of two headshots. On the left, a headshot of Tecumseh Ceaser. An Indigenous artist with red cap on that reads Decolonize. He wears a navy blue button up with white dots. On his neck, two necklaces, one with a hanging Wampum carved shell and a second one shaped in a circle made out of bright green beads. On the right: a headshot of Shane Weeks. An Indigenous artist with a white t-shirt that reads “Race*Shinnecock*Nation*Warrior” in a circle, with “2017” in the center and two paddles forming an “X”. An arrow is placed across the intersecting paddles.

Honoring Our Connection to Ocean Ancestors and Reclaiming Ceremony: Shane Weeks and Tecumseh Ceaser in Conversation

Tecumseh Ceaser

November 4, 2021

A light yellow Montez Press Radio post-it covered in layers of multicolored handwritten and stamped text. The texts elements are very densely layered, to the point of being indiscernible and illegible.

Montez Press Radio

October 20, 2021

We the People? /¿Nosotrxs la gente?

Alex Strada & Tali Keren

October 14, 2021

A group of mostly Latina women looking left smiling. Four of them are squatting and holding a medium sized knitted sweater. Six of them are standing being expressive with their hands. Behind them is a series of images of knitted things and knitted items. On the right corner of the image there is a small christmas tree adorned with small spheres, the floor is a reddish brown. Some of them are also wearing an array of knitted sweaters.

BordeAndo

October 10, 2021

This image focuses on a wood burning fire pit. Logs are stacked in the foreground and smoke is rising around them. There are four people are present. Three are in the background, focused on the fire with expectant expressions. A fourth person stands above the fire, appearing to arrange logs. This person wears a hat and many other adornments: fringed clothing, and jewelry made of leather, bone, silver, and stones.

Tecumseh Ceaser

October 1, 2021

A light green Montez Press Radio post-it with a mix of handwritten and stamped text. A portion of the stamped text reads

Montez Press Radio

August 29, 2021

Shannon Finnegan speaking during the Q&A session: they appear in a large box, wearing a gray jumper in a domestic room with a bookcase in the background.

Shannon Finnegan

May 3, 2021