Votes for Women: A Photo Exhibition
A photo exhibition featuring historical photos and objects to commemorate the 100th year of the Women’s Suffrage Movement. Guest speakers will discuss the history and historical footage video will be shown
Tideshift: New York’s Working Waterfront Past to Present
Planning a project to collect the lived experience of New York’s working waterfront by identifying people of interest and tools for collecting, storing, and sharing their stories to contextualize our collection and actively engage our community.
UnHomeless NYC
Can art and humanities change attitudes about homelessness? This public engagement and collaborative research project brings together CUNY faculty, students, artists, community partners to examine and act on the issues of homelessness in New York City.
Dos Mundos/Two Worlds Dialogues
A series of planning meetings and interviews to develop the Vision for the proposed Dos Mundos Dialogues (DMD): an exploration of the Dos Mundos/Two Worlds theme of traditional and contemporary influences and its reconciliation on artists of color of the art produced in the 1973 Dos Mundos exhibition of Puerto Rican photographers and the scheduled […]
Reclaiming the Hall of Fame
BCC faculty and an advisory board of humanities scholars will plan an art and community event at America’s first Hall of Fame that will use art, music, dance, and performance to explore inclusion, diversity, and bias in defining Great Americans.
Harlem Renaissance Centenary
The Harlem Renaissance Planning Group will formulate a program commemorating the centenary of this defining decade in the history of the Harlem community and American culture.
Plain Sight Project
Along with many northern communities, East Hampton is disconnected from its slave-owning past. By compiling a comprehensive, public list of enslaved persons from the Colonial period to the last recorded enslaved person in East Hampton in 1830, the Plain Sight Project is reconciling with this forgotten history while taking a step to place these people […]
Pilot Exhibit Audio Guide
The Whaling Museum completes phase two of its research using community input to produce an informative, engaging, and user-centered audio guide pilot for its exhibits to strengthen the visitor’s museum experience and increase engagement.
Civic Leadership Action Summit for Teen Girls
1st Amendment-1st Vote’s Civic Leadership Action Summit, in collaboration with TheChisel.com, is held each October for that year’s 1st A-1st V Seminar cohort to refresh/refine issue-related Civic Leadership Action Plans crafted previously (student identifies issue she is passionate about and commits to take action with student collaborators, based on facts, to effect desired change). This […]
