What part of New York City are Socrates Sculpture Park and The Noguchi Museum located?
Queens
Noguchi Museum
The Noguchi Museum, chartered as The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum, was designed and created by the Japanese-American sculptor Isamu Noguchi.
 Opening on a limited basis to the public in 1985 the purpose of the museum and foundation was and remains to preserve and display Noguchi's sculptures, architectural models, stage designs, drawings, and furniture designs.
 The two-story, 24000 sqft museum and adjacent sculpture garden, located in Long Island City section of Queens, one block from the Socrates Sculpture Park, underwent major renovations in 2004 allowing the museum to stay open year round.
Socrates Sculpture Park
Socrates Sculpture Park is an outdoor museum and public park where artists can create and exhibit sculptures and multi-media installations.
 It is located one block from the Noguchi Museum at the intersection of Broadway and Vernon Boulevard in the neighborhood of Astoria, Queens, New York City.
 In addition to exhibition space, the park offers an arts education program, artist residency program, and job training.
John Hock (sculptor)
John Hock is the founding director and now Artistic Director of Franconia Sculpture Park in Franconia, Minnesota.
 Hock is a sculptor, educator, curator and arts administrator.
 He was born and grew up in Washington, D.C. In addition, Hock is the chief curator and manager for the City of St. Paul's Western Sculpture Park for PUBLIC ART SAINT PAUL.
 Hock initiated the idea for this city sculpture park in order to reclaim a degraded city park and revitalize the neighborhood.
 It is Hock's belief and philosophy that sculpture is an important aspect of the world - that sculpture helps people look at the world differently.
 As a sculptor, Hock has large-scale abstract sculptures in collections and public sculpture parks around the U.S. and England.
 He has received numerous fellowships and awards from the National Foundation for the Advancement of Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, McKnight Foundation Individual Artists Grant, Athena Foundation, and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award. Lex Brown (artist)
Lex Brown is a contemporary video and performance artist born in 1989 in Oakland, CA.
 Brown grew up in Northern Virginia and attended Princeton University for her A.B. in visual art and archaeology where she graduated summa cum laude.
 Brown is currently completing her M.F.A. at the Yale University sculpture program.
 Brown is best known for her performance work which deals with self-reflection, politics, and design.
 While in undergrad Brown participated in several artist residencies including Chautauqua Institute in Chautauqua, NY, Skowhegan School of Painting, in Skowhegan, ME, and Yale-Norfolk School of Art in New Haven, CT, where she worked on sculpture, painting, video, and performance.
 She has been accepted to the Paul Klee residency program in Switzerland for summer 2016.
 Upon graduating from Princeton University Brown lived and worked in Los Angeles where her performance work was widely shown at art spaces in the city including REDCAT, Wilding Cran Gallery, and Monkey Town.
 Brown has shown work at the New Museum and Socrates Sculpture Park and International Center for Photography in New York, NY, the Antenna Gallery in New Orleans, LA, and VIA Music Festival in Pittsburgh, PA as part of their Women in Sound series.
 In 2015, Brown published a short novel entitled "My Wet Hot Drone Summer", as part of BadLands Unlimited's "New Lovers," a series of erotic fiction.
 Brown is also included in Thomas Hirschhorn's Gramsci Project publication. Griffis Sculpture Park
Griffis Sculpture Park is a sculpture park located between Ashford Hollow and East Otto in Cattaraugus County, New York.
 The 425 acre outdoor art museum, which was created by artist Larry W. Griffis Jr in 1966, was the first sculpture park in the United States.
 It features more than 250 works of art created by over 100 artists, and also serves as a nature preserve, with 10 mi of trails.
 Griffis founded the Ashford Hollow Foundation for the Visual and Performing Arts to administer the park, which was most recently headed by Simon Griffis, son of Larry Griffis, until Simon's death at Zoar Valley in June 2010.
 Other members of the Griffis family have also served on the AHF board of directors. Royden Mills
Royden Mills is a Canada-based artist who has created sculpture that is sited internationally, A selection of his large-scale work can be found at State University of New York, Odette Sculpture Park (Windsor, Ontario), Franconia Sculpture Park (Minnesota).
 "Mills work can be seen at the University of Lethbridge, Arlington Heights, Chicago, Sculpturesite Gallery San Francisco, Robert T. Webb Sculpture Garden in Dalton Georgia, The Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Canmore Hospital Canada, and also in Centennial Plaza Red Deer Alberta, as well as Shikaoi, Hokkaido Japan, as well as in Imagining Science at the Art Gallery of Alberta where he collaborated with internationally recognized Print Artist, Sean Caulfield" The work they generated has been seen at the Glenbow Museum in Calgary, UQAM Gallery Montreal, McMaster University Museum, and Enterprise Square, Edmonton.
 He has won many of Canada's major art awards and continues to work actively to promote the advancement of Sculpture as a discipline, most obviously as an active studio artist, demonstrating that it is possible to make a life through art, paid for by art even if one is not a highly paid educator.
 He also takes the opportunity through his contract academic position to advance the potential of his students in very significant ways.
 Through opportunities for young artists at Franconia Sculpture Park many University of Alberta Students have gone on to enjoy mentoring from John Hock, Jon Isherwood and they also have been able to enjoy seeing how they can enjoy working far outside of the Canadian scene.
 Mills' undergraduate students have twice won the International Sculpture Centre's Outstanding Student Achievement Award in 2014 and 2015 .
 Kaise Campbell and Tiffany Adair beat even applications for this award from graduate students from many leading institutions and were given the opportunity to meet and learn about further opportunities available to them. Grounds For Sculpture
Grounds For Sculpture (GFS) is a 42 acre sculpture park and museum located in Hamilton, NJ, United States, on the former site of the New Jersey State Fairgrounds.
 Founded in 1992 by John Seward Johnson II, the venue is dedicated to promoting an understanding of and appreciation for contemporary sculpture by organizing exhibitions, publishing catalogues, and offering a variety of educational programs and special community events. Skyscraper Museum
The Skyscraper Museum is an architecture museum located in Battery Park City, Manhattan, New York City and founded in 1996.
 As the name suggests, the museum focuses on high-rise buildings as "products of technology, objects of design, sites of construction, investments in real estate, and places of work and residence."
 The Skyscraper Museum also celebrates the architectural heritage of New York and the forces and people who created New York's skyline.
 Before moving to the current and permanent location in Battery Park City in 2004, the museum was a nomadic institution, holding pop-up exhibitions in four temporary donated spaces around Lower Manhattan since 1996. Nassau County Museum of Art
The Nassau County Museum of Art (NCMA) is located 20 miles east of New York City on the former Frick Estate, a 145 acre property in Roslyn Harbor in the heart of Long Island’s Gold Coast.
 The main museum building, named in honor of art collectors and philanthropists Arnold A. Saltzman and his wife Joan, is a three-story Georgian-style mansion that exemplifies Gold Coast architecture of the late 19th century.
 In addition to the mansion, NCMA, which receives nearly 200,000 visitors each year, includes The Manes Family Art & Education Center, opened in 2017, as well as a Sculpture Park, a Formal Garden, rare specimen trees and marked walking trails. Jose de Creeft
José Mariano de Creeft (1884-1982) was a Spanish-born American artist, sculptor, and teacher known for modern sculpture in stone, metal, and wood, particularly figural works of women.
 His 16 ft bronze "Alice In Wonderland" climbing sculpture in Central Park is well known to both adults and children in New York City.
 He was an early adopter, and prominent exponent of the direct carving approach to sculpture.
 He also developed the technique of lead chasing, and was among the very first to create modern sculpture from found objects.
 He taught at Black Mountain College, the Art Students League of New York, and the New School for Social Research.
 His works are in the Whitney Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and many other public and private collections.