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