Students visiting New York City's Historic Seneca Village in Central Park
The Department of Art & Public Policy welcomes many guests into our courses and events. Their contributions immensely expand our conversations and provide critical insights into the many articulations of Arts Politics.
Within our curriculum, New York City is often activated as a learning space. Students are guided in understanding the landscape of Arts Politics in the city by visiting various organizations, institutions and arts spaces.
Below is a list of some of our most recent guests and places visited.
Guest Speakers:
- Michael Alago, A&R executive producer
- Amir Baradaran, artist
- Ricardo Gamboa, M.A. Arts Politics Alum '13, artist & activist
- Ross Gay, poet
- Miguel Gutierrez, choreographer
- Jack Gray, choreographer & Artistic Director of Atamira Dance Company
- Alexis Pauline Gumbs, writer
- Jon Henry, M.A. Arts Politics Alum '13, artist
- Joseph O. Legaspi, poet
- Beth Pickens, consultant
- Madeline Sayet, director
- Reverend Osagyefo Uhuru Sekou, activist & musician
- Negar Taymoorzadeh, academic
- Sangodare, artist
- Shouleh Vantanabadi, writer
- Marta Moreno Vega, artist & activist, organizer, founder of CCCADI
- Bruce Yonemoto, video and digital media installation artist, educator, writer and curator
- Anooj Bhandari, artist & community organizer
- Darlene Charneco, mixed-media artist
- Wunetu Tarrant, researcher
- Victor Peterson, researcher
- Kimberly Johnson, minister of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the South Fork
- Maia Marie, co-founder of Lalela
- Karen Mack
- Amalia Deloney, ACD Consulting
- Carlton Turner, executive director of Alternate Roots
- Moukhtar Kocache, independent advisor & consultant
- Andrea Assaf, founding artistic & creative director of Art2Action
- Vanessa Whang, thought partner
- Jawole Zollar, founding artistic director/chief visioning partner of Urban Bush Women
- John Malpede, founding artistic director of the Los Angeles Poverty Department
- Damon Rich, co-leader of HECTOR
- Mary Ann DeVlieg, internationally experienced consultant
- Nadia Huggins, photographer
- Maria Elena Ortiz, curator at the Perez Art Museum Miami
- Michael Alago
- Christopher Audain, managing director of the Arts Initiative at the University of Michigan
- Naisha Solomon, community development outreach coordinator
- Viva Ruiz, Ecuadorian advocate & artist
- Pamela Sneed, poet
- Maya Crace
- Snigdha Koirala, writer/poet
- Jack Waters, visual artist/filmmaker/writer/media artist/choreographer/performer
- Peter Cramer, multimedia artist
- John Sims, interdisciplinary conceptual artist
- Kimiyo Bremer, artist-scholar
- Yesenia Montilla, poet
- Itumelong Moeketsi and Refilo Lepere, theater artists
- Adania Shibli, author and essayist
- Steven Menendez, photographer
- Cheryl Boyce-Taylor- poet
Outings:
- Asian American Writers Workshop
- Brooklyn Museum
- Carribean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
- Whitney Museum
- NYU Grey Art Museum
- Seneca Village