• Alexander Cavaluzzo

    Alexander Cavaluzzo - Named the 1st Writing Fellow at Velvetpark Media, 2025

    Friday, Sep 20, 2024

    Alexander Cavaluzzo is a Manhattan-based writer and artist whose work frequently integrates aesthetics and politics. Alexander is an APP alum.

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  • Pato Hebert headshot

    Art & Public Policy Chair and Professor Pato Hebert is an Artist in Residence at Pine Meadow Ranch Center for Arts & Agriculture in Sisters, Oregon

    Monday, Jul 29, 2024

    The residency’s theme and focus on transitions and migration resonates deeply with Hebert’s ongoing explorations of history, decolonialism, and the impacts of imperialism on people and places.

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  • Dear Inheritors cover-- yellow with brown image

    Professor Kathy Engel releases new poetry collection, Dear Inheritors

    Monday, Jul 22, 2024

    APP Professor Kathy Engel launched her new book, "Dear Inheritors" on Monday June 10th at the Lower East Side Girls Club.

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  • Forest for trees collective wwritten three times enclosed by circle

    Art & Public Policy Alums colloborate on exhibition, “Entangled Futures” on Governors Island

    Monday, Jul 15, 2024

    This constellation of artists is an invitation into expansion, into relational entanglement, into truthtelling as a practice of reclamation, transformation, and healing.

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  • Aftermath: Analyzing Anguish by Nina Riley ________________________________ A two-part ritual performance and play exploring grief. Its influence on the body and spirit, and an exploration into how we transcend time and space. This sanctuary will invite intimate and nuanced emotions, especially as we collectively navigate grief on a community and deeply personal level.

    APP Alum Nina Riley performed her original play “Aftermath: Analyzing Anguish” as part of the BLACK FEMME FREEDOM FEST: A VIBECOLLAB JOINT

    Wednesday, Jul 10, 2024

    Aftermath: Analyzing Anguish written by Nina Riley, is an experimental ritual performance and developing play exploring grief and it’s impact on the body and spirit. A journey into how we transcend time and space through poetics.

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  • Pato Hebert portrait

    Professor and Chair Pato Hebert presented at the conference, “Caring Futures: Contradictions, Transformation, and Revolutionary Possibilities” in Paris, France

    Tuesday, Jul 2, 2024

    Along with his collaborators, Pato read from the group essay, “When We’re Coming From: What Would an HIV Doula Do? on Pandemic Time(s)” which first appeared last year in “Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies”

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  • kathy stands in front of multicolor installation

    Professor Kathy Engel's poem “Life Support” featured in Guggenheim Museum exhibition

    Monday, Jun 24, 2024

    Lines from APP Professor Kathy Engel's poem “Life Support” (1982) from the 2007 collection We Begin Here: Poems for Palestine and Lebanon (edited with Kamal Boullata) are included in the exhibition, "Jenny Holzer: Light Line," currently on view at the Guggenheim Museum.

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  • Anna Deavare Smith, photo by Jeff Riedel

    Art and Public Policy Professor Anna Deavare Smith will deliver the 73rd A.W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts at the National Art Gallery!

    Monday, May 13, 2024

    Art and Public Policy Professor Anna Deavare Smith will deliver the 73rd A.W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts at the National Art Gallery!

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  • At the Door of Integration, I turned around, by Camonghne Felix

    APP Alum Camonghne Felix has a new poem in The Nation!

    Monday, May 13, 2024

    APP Alum Camonghne Felix has a new poem in The Nation, titled 'At the door of integration, I turned around'.

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  • Portrait of Alissa Bidwell

    Congratulations to APP Alum Alissa Bidwell for her acceptance into the University of Minnesota’s PhD program in Theatre Historiography & Performance Studies!

    Thursday, May 9, 2024

    Congratulations to APP Alum Alissa Bidwell who was recently accepted into the University of Minnesota’s PhD program in Theatre Historiography & Performance Studies!

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