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:
- Adania Shibli, author and essayist
- Alejandro Rodriguez
- Alexis Pauline Gumbs, writer
- Alicia Grullon
- Amalia Deloney, ACD Consulting
- Amir Baradaran, artist
- Andrea Assaf, founding artistic & creative director of Art2Action
- Anooj Bhandari, artist & community organizer
- Antonia Randolph, cultural sociologist
- Beth Pickens, consultant
- Bruce Yonemoto, video and digital media installation artist, educator, writer and curator
- Caio Rosa, visual artist
- Carlton Turner, executive director of Alternate Roots
- Cheryl Boyce-Taylor, poet
- Christopher Audain, managing director of the Arts Initiative at the University of Michigan
- Damon Rich, co-leader of HECTOR
- Darlene Charneco, mixed-media artist
- Derrais Carter
- Dona Ann McAdams
- Eleonora Fabião, artist
- Fadl Fakhouri, artist
- Henry Castillo, actor
- Itumelong Moeketsi and Refilo Lepere, theater artists
- Jack Gray, choreographer & Artistic Director of Atamira Dance Company
- Jack Waters, visual artist/filmmaker/writer/media artist/choreographer/performer
- Jawole Zollar, founding artistic director/chief visioning partner of Urban Bush Women
- Jenna Hamed, artist/curator
- Jessica Angima, artist
- John Malpede, founding artistic director of the Los Angeles Poverty Department
- John Sims, interdisciplinary conceptual artist
- Jon Henry, M.A. Arts Politics Alum '13, artist
- Joseph M. Pierce, Associate Professor, Stony Brook University
- Joseph O. Legaspi, poet
- Karen Mack
- Kesha Bruce, artist/teacher/spirit guide
- Kimberly Johnson, minister of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the South Fork
- Kimiyo Bremer, artist-scholar
- Kira Xonorika, artist
- Kristi Zea, production designer/director
- Leticia Gutierrez-Pelaez, arts professional
- Lucy Sexton, perfomer, director, and choreographer
- Madeline Sayet, director
- Maia Marie, co-founder of Lalela
- Maria Elena Ortiz, curator at the Perez Art Museum Miami
- Mary Ann DeVlieg, internationally experienced consultant
- Maya Crace
- Michael Alago, A&R executive producer
- Miguel Gutierrez, choreographer
- Moukhtar Kocache, independent advisor & consultant
- Nadia Huggins, photographer
- Naisha Solomon, community development outreach coordinator
- Nayantara Sen
- Negar Taymoorzadeh, academic
- Nohora Arrieta Fernández, author
- Ntshadi Mofokeng
- Omo Moses, author
- Oscar Riquelme, private chef
- Pamela Sneed, poet
- Patricia Encarnacion, ceramist
- Peter Cramer, multimedia artist
- Reverend Osagyefo Uhuru Sekou, activist & musician
- Ricardo Gamboa, M.A. Arts Politics Alum '13, artist & activist
- Ross Gay, poet
- Sangodare, artist
- Shouleh Vantanabadi, writer
- Snigdha Koirala, writer/poet
- Sonia Sanchez, poet/activist
- Steven Menendez, photographer
- Vanessa Whang, thought partner
- Victor Peterson, researcher
- Viva Ruiz, Ecuadorian advocate & artist
- Wunetu Tarrant, researcher
- Yesenia Montilla, poet
- Zakiyyah Iman Jackson
Outings:
- American Museum of Natural History
- Asian American Writers Workshop
- Brooklyn Academy of Music André 3000 concert
- Brooklyn Museum
- Forbidden Planet NYC
- Hannah Traore Gallery
- Intimate live music evening with Zimbabwean Mbira master Othnell Mangoma Moyo
- The Latinx Project RicanVisions Exhibit at 20 Cooper Square
- Leimay's A Meal at HERE Arts Center
- Metropolitan Opera House to see Verdi's Il Trovatore
- Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
- National Museum of the American Indian
- New York City Comic Con
- NYU Bobst Library
- The NYU Entrepreneurs Lab
- NYU Grey Art Museum
- Pioneer Works and Brooklyn Raga Massive's Ragas Live Fest
- Seneca Village
- The Shed
- Whitney Museum