53 faculty and alumni artists will be on view July 10, 2019 through January 3, 2020 at the Department of Photography & Imaging, NYU Tisch School of the Arts. Opening Reception: October 2, 2019 at 721 Bway.

The work shown in 'Closets: Reimagining Identities while Embracing Memories' explores these innermost aspects of ourselves, symbolized through closet space, and how we perform our identities based on how we desire to image ourselves to the world.

Gordon Parks wrote, directed, and scored the first major Hollywood film to be directed by a Black American, The Learning Tree (1969). Clips from the film will be shown as 2019 Gordon Parks Foundation Fellow and DPI alum Hank Willis Thomas and Abbe Schriber (Art History & Archaeology, Columbia University) discuss the ongoing relevance of the film fifty years after its release.