Take a look at events, projects and accomplishments from the Department of Art & Public Policy and our community of faculty, students and alumni. Photos and descriptions below.
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Karen Finley: More Desperate Than Ever
Friday, May 23, 2025
Freight + Volume is thrilled to present Karen Finley's More Desperate Than Ever, a solo exhibition of recent work which includes a wide variety of Finley's practice: painting, installation, and performance-based projects.
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Professor Karen Finley featured in "The Brooklyn Rail"
Tuesday, Apr 15, 2025
Professor Finley who is an artist, performer, and poet. Her work has been presented internationally and she is the author of ten books, including COVID Vortex Anxiety Opera Kitty Kaleidoscope Disco, just published by City Lights.
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APP Chair Pato Hebert appears in Please Hold, a new experimental documentary by Alexandra Juhasz
Friday, Mar 14, 2025
Please Hold is an experimental documentary engaging with decades of DIY activist media, two death bed/legacy videos, and the wisdom of many living AIDS workers.
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Art & Public Policy Associate Professor Shanté Paradigm Smalls has received the Global Research Initiative Fellowship
Monday, Mar 10, 2025
Art & Public Policy Associate Professor Shanté Paradigm Smalls has received the Global Research Initiative Fellowship
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Congratulations to Marjuan Canady (APP '10) and her company for the Grammy won by Hell's Kitchen!
Wednesday, Mar 5, 2025
CONGRATS to the entire Hell's Kitchen: A New Musical On Broadway company on our Recording Academy / GRAMMYs “BEST MUSICAL THEATER ALBUM”.
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A Performance by Karen Finley: ‘COVID Vortex Anxiety Opera Kitty Kaleidoscope Disco’
Thursday, Feb 27, 2025
Celebrated visual and performance artist Karen Finley looks back at New York City upended by the COVID-19 pandemic in COVID Vortex Anxiety Opera Kitty Kaleidoscope Disco
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The Thread That Holds Us: Poetry Reading and Conversation with Kathy Engel
Saturday, Feb 8, 2025
Visual & Critical Studies and MFA Writing presents an intimate afternoon with acclaimed poet and cultural worker, Kathy Engel (@kelajaja) in conversation with dual degree VCS and graduate fine arts student Jasmine Narkita Wiley (@jasminenarkitawiley)
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Dr. Zakiyyah Iman Jackson Grad Seminar
Friday, Dec 6, 2024
This seminar concerns the intertwinement of science, aesthetics, and cultural criticism via an investigation of the aesthetics of science.
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Reading to Celebrate "Dear Inheritors" by Poet and Professor Kathy Engel
Tuesday, Oct 29, 2024
The evening will include an introduction by Judy Tate, readings by Solena Ornelas and Lidia Helou, a conversation between Sonya Posmentier and the poet, and a reading by Kathy Engel from her newest book of poems, Dear Inheritors,
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A Red Becoming: Speculative Engagements with Indigenous Art - Joseph M. Pierce
Thursday, Oct 24, 2024
This presentation explores how three contemporary Indigenous artists are reimagining Indigenous embodiment.
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