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 2020 Dos Mundos exhibition of a diverse representation of artists, reflecting the changing ethnic and racially diverse demographics.
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 and their stories back into our nation’s founding narrative with in-class outreach to public and private schools.
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 Seminar follow-up is intended as final prep for Plan implementation in participants’ home school communities.
Mosaic Literary Conference
The Mosaic Literary Conference presents creative ways for keeping books and reading valuable sources of knowledge and creativity that help incorporate literature into existing curricula to explore course work focused on cultures and social studies.
Epic Forum Series: DEFAULT
Planning a series of community conversations around DEFAULT, a free thirty-minute touring play about Ethnic Studies and Culturally Responsive Education.
New Black Narratives into Core Materials
By building on existing research and through executing a series of scholarly lectures, the Morris-Jumel Mansion integrates the narratives of significant black figures of the home’s past into its core educational programs and interpretative framework.