The Director Welcomes You

Friends and colleagues, as the semester starts, allow me to urge you to visit the QCC Art Gallery either with your classes or on your own. If you're unfamiliar with the building, the works that appear therein, or the man who is principally responsible for the success of the Gallery, then you're missing out on education and fun......two of my favorite things :)

Director Faustino Quintanilla multitasks.........bestowing a blessing while changing overhead lighting!

If visiting with a class, calling ahead to arrange a best time is much appreciated, whereas one should always feel free to stop by alone or in smaller groups whenever the spirit moves you. And if you have time, be sure to step up to the second floor to say hello and a word of thanks to Director Faustino Quintanilla. His schedule is hectic, but never so much so that it precludes the joy of meeting another friend and art enthusiast.

Popular Images

Judging from the frequency with which they are viewed in the QCC-Art Deviant Art Gallery, the images below are among the most popular depicting works that have appeared at the QCC Art Gallery.

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Who was Roger Bullard?

Roger H. Bullard was born in 1884 in New York City and died just shy of his fifty-first birthday in 1935. But in the interim, he was a busy man.

Mr. Bullard graduated from the Columbia University School of Architecture in 1907. He was architect for the Auxiliar Obras Publicas of the Cuban government, 1908 and 1909. He received an honorable mention from the American Institute of Architects, 1931, for an apartment house in Manhattan, and a gold medal from “Better Homes in America” in 1933. He was a member of the executive committee of the New York Chapter of the American Institute of Architects and Architectural League of New York, and was also a member of the Beaux Arts Institute of Design and New York Society of Architects.

Putting(circa 1925) on what is now the Wenzhi Zhang Sculpture Garden.

He designed many opulent residences for prominent locals in suburban New York, as well as a number of buildings at local golf clubs, including the Maidstone Club of East Hampton, the New Jersey Country Club in Plainfield, and of most relevance to our concern, the first expansion and upgrade of the Oakland Golf Club in Bayside, Queens....the home of our QCC Art Gallery.

Click here to download an article outlining the plans for

the Oakland Clubhouse from the December, 1921 issue of Golf Digest.

African Art Extraordinaire

As all are aware, the QCC Art Gallery has an amazing permanent collection of African Art, but it has also welcomed many fine African Art exhibits to its space. In case you missed them, relive three of the best below via their video walk-throughs.

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QCC Art International

Though the QCC Art Gallery is extraordinary in many ways, it often gets overlooked in a city that is one of the world's art capitals.

But luckily when the works and images of the QCC Art Gallery are posted digitally, the world responds.

Apparently Art and the good sense to appreciate it know no boundaries and there is no truer testament than the numbers below.

Statistics are current through 1/14/16

Unofficial QCC Art Gallery Blog 327 posts, 159,983 views	Mojo QCC Art Gallery Blog 280 posts, 48,837 views	QCC-Art on DeviantArt
Entry Pageviews United States 103,271 Netherlands 16,421 Germany 15,587 Slovenia 4,917 Russia 3,478 China 2,508 Ukraine 2,164 France 1,354 Indonesia 1,130 India 857	Entry Pageviews United States 40,358 Germany 2,850 Slovenia 1,092 Russia 1,087 China 681 Taiwan 458 Indonesia 421 India 257 Ukraine 227 Canada 212	- 84,590 page views    - 1,256 images    - 285,493 image views    - 1,366 comments    - 11,347 favorites    - 500 followers    - 354 llama badges

Femme Fatale: 2

As mentioned in a previous post, the motif of woman as seductress, luring poor Ulysses or some other such hero to his downfall, has been a common one, and has given rise to a plenitude of creative work. Though, with our modern sensibilities, we may have little sympathy for the theme, we may still admire its execution, as in the works below that have appeared at the QCC Art Gallery.

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Femme Fatale

Rightly or, to my mind, wrongly, women have been cast as the origin of sin, more often than not by men who were unwilling to take responsibility for their own misdeeds. Unfair as this characterization may be, it has inspired a significant amount of creative production in many cultures, some of which have found their way to our own QCC Art Gallery.

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Artist Profile: Donna Page

The vibrant and talented Donna Page.

Donna Page had trouble finding a job as an art instructor when first she moved to NYC in 1979. So, what did she do? She worked in the Leonard Kahan Gallery where she became fascinated with and expert in restoring African Art.


She has since taught at QCC, published in the areas of African Art and its restoration, provided vital assistance to the QCC Art Gallery on a number of occasions, and become known as one of the most able restoration experts for anything from an ancient ceramic to a twentieth century textile.


Unfortunately for us, she's now back home in Madison, Wisconsin, but it was my good fortune to meet this charming lady at a recent opening at the QCC Art Gallery.

Most Popular on Deviant Art

As we've shared in the past, Deviant Art is the single largest Social Networking site for artists. It's also a repository for over 1200 images from past exhibits at the QCC Art Gallery. With over 80,000 page views and almost 300,000 image views, it's clear that the members of DA have good taste :) But which exhibit do they love the most?

Summer of 2012 saw the QCC AG host these wondrous works.

Well, owing to their particular demographic....mostly young artists and art enthusiasts...they seem to have a clear preference for one of my own favorites: Fantasy Art.

In summer of 2012, the QCC Art Gallery hosted an assemblage of works by renowned fantasy artists, including the likes of the late, great H.R. Giger. And to view a large sample of these works, one need only access the gallery of fantasy art at QCC-Art. Enjoy!

Top Ten at MOJO

This blog's sister blog, the Mojo QCC Art Gallery Blog, is more pictorial than verbal, is more social than informative, and is favored by our younger, if less devoted, readers. Having said that, let us provide links to the ten most popular pages at the MOJO blog ever!

1 - Social Science in the House - I can't fault you on taste. When you get three attractive colleagues to pose in front of some pretty pictures, why wouldn't it be popular?
2 - Scandal at the QCC Art Gallery - Who doesn't like a little gossip, even if it is a total fabrication?
3 - Danny Simmons - Hip-Hop meets the Director in Oakland Building!
4 - Lisa Baw - The charming and inspiring Ms. Baw.
5 - Philip's Friend - Our colleague Philip Listengart has a fan.
6 - Bug Out at the Gallery - Afraid of Peter Max?...then stay away :)
7 - KHRCA - Art can be found there too.
8 - Art Books and More - If you're ever in the market for inexpensive, art-related gifts...
9 - Cultural Liaisons at the QCC Art Gallery - Visiting the Director in his lair.
10 - Sculpture at QCC - An oft overlooked piece, but one that deserves more attention.