The Hunter campus is host to arts events every day, and almost all of them are free with Hunter ID.
You can use this calendar to explore concerts, dance and theater performances, art and photography exhibits, readings, film screenings, visiting artist lectures, Q&A’s, and much more.
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Sophocles’ Electra
The Hunter Theater Department presents Sophocles’ Electra.
Free for anyone with a Hunter ID (Including Faculty and Staff). Anyone with a Hunter ID may pick up a free ticket at the Kaye Playhouse Box Office on the day of the event. All others may purchase a ticket here.
Crossover Jazz
Hunter College Jazz & Popular Music Combos
Directed by Ryan Keberle, Dave DeMotta, Priscilla Owens and Ike Sturm
Free for Hunter students. Click here to RSVP.
Cafecito con... Ángela Maria Dávila: Translating Animal Fiero y Tierno
Iconic Afro-feminist and Afro-Caribbean poet and visual artist Ángela María Dávila Malavé left as part of her legacy, animal fiero y tierno/fierce and tender animal, a force of rhythm and a delicate combination of the of the expressive and the colloquial in the language. Originally published in 1977 (Editorial QueAce, Puerto Rico), it has never been translated into English, until now accompanied by never before seen unpublished materials. Join Puerto Rican Poet Laureate of Philadelphia, Roque Raquel Salas Rivera, and CENTRO's Managing Editor for the Press, Cristina Pérez Díaz as we present the newly translated animal fiero y tierno/ fierce and tender animal.
This event is FREE and open to the public. Click here to RSVP.
Sophocles’ Electra
The Hunter Theater Department presents Sophocles’ Electra.
Free for anyone with a Hunter ID (Including Faculty and Staff). Anyone with a Hunter ID may pick up a free ticket at the Kaye Playhouse Box Office on the day of the event. All others may purchase a ticket here.
Sophocles’ Electra
The Hunter Theater Department presents Sophocles’ Electra.
Free for anyone with a Hunter ID (Including Faculty and Staff). Anyone with a Hunter ID may pick up a free ticket at the Kaye Playhouse Box Office on the day of the event. All others may purchase a ticket here.
Piano Department B'Day & Memorial Tribute Concert
Geoffrey Burleson with piano majors
Free for Hunter students. Click here to RSVP.
Aquí y Ahora
A Dance Tribute to Gustavo Cerati.
Free for anyone with a Hunter ID (Including Faculty and Staff). Contact dance@hunter.cuny.edu.
Sophocles’ Electra
The Hunter Theater Department presents Sophocles’ Electra.
Free for anyone with a Hunter ID (Including Faculty and Staff). Anyone with a Hunter ID may pick up a free ticket at the Kaye Playhouse Box Office on the day of the event. All others may purchase a ticket here.
Aquí y Ahora
A Dance Tribute to Gustavo Cerati.
Free for anyone with a Hunter ID (Including Faculty and Staff). Contact dance@hunter.cuny.edu.
AMLC Speaker Series presents Michelle Lynne
Michelle Lynn is a canadian pianist and singer who performs widely across Europe, is Lecturer of Entrepreneurship, and is co-founder of The Fearless Artist Mastermind. Her zone of genius is getting to the root of the real problems and asking hard questions in a kind way. Michelle is full of enthusiasm and optimism, and believes that artists deserve to earn a good income and should never be their own ceilings. She currently holds positions as Lecturer for Music Entrepreneurship at Codarts University for the Arts, Rotterdam. She graduated from the Université de Montréal with a Master’s and Artist Diploma in piano performance.
This event is free for Hunter students. Click here to join the Zoom.
Person Place Thing: Live Recording Randy Cohen with Special Guest Gregory Mosher
Get to know Hunter’s own Gregory Mosher at Person Place Thing, a podcast hosted by Randy Cohen, original writer of the NYT Magazine column “The Ethicist.”
On Tuesday, April 8 at 2:30 pm at the Frederick Loewe Theater at Hunter College.
Join us for a special live taping of the acclaimed interview show Person Place Thing with host Randy Cohen. Hunter College’s own Gregory Mosher, Tony Award-winning producer, theater director and Executive Director of The Office of the Arts at Hunter College will share one person, one place, and one thing that hold deep meaning for him.
Based on the idea that people are most engaging when discussing what they truly care about, Person Place Thing brings out unexpected stories from fascinating guests. This event will feature live music from students in the Musical Theater class in the Theater department and will be recorded for broadcast.
Free Admission | Limited Seating – RSVP HERE
For more information and past episodes, visit PersonPlaceThing.org
Gregory Mosher, Hunter College’s Executive Director of the Office of the Arts, came to Hunter from Columbia University in 2017, where he had launched the Columbia Arts Initiative, a university-wide effort to make the arts part of every Columbian’s education. He is a theater and film producer of more than 200 plays at the Goodman and Lincoln Center Theaters. His focus as a producer has been new work and audience accessibility. Colleagues have included Edward Albee, Samuel Beckett, Leonard Bernstein, David Mamet, Elaine May, Arthur Miller, Richard Nelson, Mike Nichols, Jerome Robbins, Stephen Sondheim, Tennessee Williams, Nobel prize-winners Wole Soyinka and Derek Walcot, and countless of the country’s outstanding actors. He is the recipient numerous American theater awards, including two Tony awards.
Randy Cohen’s first professional work was writing humor pieces, essays, and stories for newspapers and magazines (The New Yorker, Harpers, the Atlantic, Young Love Comics). His first television work was writing for "Late Night With David Letterman" for which he won three Emmy awards. His fourth Emmy was for his work on Michael Moore’s "TV Nation." He received a fifth Emmy as a result of a clerical error, and he kept it. For twelve years he wrote "The Ethicist," a weekly column for the New York Times Magazine. He is currently the creator and host of Person Place Thing, a public radio program.
Person Place Thing is an interview show based on the idea that people are especially engaging when they speak, not directly about themselves, but something they care about. Guests talk about one person, one place, and one thing with particular meaning to them.
Distinguished Writers Series - Liz Moore
Liz Moore is a writer of fiction and creative nonfiction. Her latest novel is The God of the Woods, which was selected by Barack Obama for his Summer Reading List. Also chosen for the Summer 2024 Fallon Book Club by viewers of The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, the book was an immediate New York Times Bestseller and debuted as a #1 bestseller among American independent bookstores. Her fourth novel, Long Bright River, was made into a limited-series that will air on Peacock in 2025. Moore co-created, executive produced, and co-wrote. Her other books include The Words of Every Song, Heft, which appeared on several "Best of" lists in 2012, including NPR's and the Apple iBookstore's, and The Unseen World, which was included on year-end "Best of" lists by The New Yorker, BBC, Publishers Weekly, Audible, and others. She has taught creative writing at Hunter College, University of Pennsylvania, and most recently at Holy Family University.
This event is free for Hunter students, staff and faculty. RSVP Required. Seating is limited.
Sophocles’ Electra
The Hunter Theater Department presents Sophocles’ Electra.
Free for anyone with a Hunter ID (Including Faculty and Staff). Anyone with a Hunter ID may pick up a free ticket at the Kaye Playhouse Box Office on the day of the event. All others may purchase a ticket here.
Master's Recital
Gabrielle DeJesus, guitar
Free for Hunter students. Click here to RSVP.
Sophocles’ Electra
The Hunter Theater Department presents Sophocles’ Electra.
Free for anyone with a Hunter ID (Including Faculty and Staff). Anyone with a Hunter ID may pick up a free ticket at the Kaye Playhouse Box Office on the day of the event. All others may purchase a ticket here.
Hunter Students in Concert
Student instrumental & vocal performances
Free for Hunter students. Click here to RSVP.
The Nuyorican Poets Cafe at CENTRO
April is poetry month, so celebrate in style with The Nuyorican Poets Cafe at CENTRO. Join us for an evening of spoken word and connect with your favorite poets in the heart of El Barrio. Attendees will have an opportunity to recite some poetry, meet new poets, check out the CENTRO archival poetry collection, enjoy delicious fritura, and more!
This event is FREE and open to the public. Click here to RSVP.
Sophocles’ Electra
The Hunter Theater Department presents Sophocles’ Electra.
Free for anyone with a Hunter ID (Including Faculty and Staff). Anyone with a Hunter ID may pick up a free ticket at the Kaye Playhouse Box Office on the day of the event. All others may purchase a ticket here.
Arnhold Graduate Dance Education Program (AGDEP) Annual Spring Concert
Student work from the MA Performance & Presentation Course and Repertory choreography by Pedro Ruiz.
Free and open to the public. RSVP Required. Contact dance@hunter.cuny.edu.
Sophocles’ Electra
The Hunter Theater Department presents Sophocles’ Electra.
Free for anyone with a Hunter ID (Including Faculty and Staff). Anyone with a Hunter ID may pick up a free ticket at the Kaye Playhouse Box Office on the day of the event. All others may purchase a ticket here.
Arnhold Graduate Dance Education Program (AGDEP) Annual Spring Concert
Student work from the MA Performance & Presentation Course and Repertory choreography by Pedro Ruiz.
Free and open to the public. RSVP Required. Contact dance@hunter.cuny.edu.
Distinguished Writers Series - Marie Howe
From 2012-2014, Marie Howe served as the Poet Laureate of New York State. Currently, she is the poet in residence at The Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, and a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. Stanley Kunitz writes that her "poetry is luminous, intense, and eloquent, rooted in an abundant inner life. Her long, deep-breathing lines address the mysteries of flesh and spirit, in terms accessible only to a woman who is very much of our time and yet still in touch with the sacred." Her collections include The Good Thief , which was chosen for the National Poetry Series by Margaret Atwood, What the Living Do, praised by Publishers Weekly as one of the five best poetry collections of the year, The Kingdom of Ordinary Time, and Magdalene. Howe has taught at Sarah Lawrence College, Columbia University, and NYU; received fellowships from the Bunting Institute at Radcliffe College, National Endowment for the Arts, Guggenheim Foundation, Academy of American Poets, and Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. She lives in New York City.
This event is free for Hunter students, staff and faculty. No RSVP necessary.
Guitar Masterclass
Guitar Masterclass directed by João Luiz Rezende Lopes.
Free for Hunter students. Click here to RSVP.
Undergraduate BA Spring Concert
Student work from the BA Dance Workshop Course and Repertory choreography by Alethea Pace.
Free and open to the public. RSVP Required. Contact dance@hunter.cuny.edu.
Muse Showcase 2025 - Night at the Muse-eum
Join us for a night of student performances and get a copy of the Muse Zine!
Free for Hunter students. Click here to RSVP.
New Topologies and Hunter Jazz Presents Alfredo Colón Ensemble
Dominican-American saxophonist and composer Alfredo Colon is a proud New York City native. His playing has been described as authoritative and fiery yet mournful and melodic. Drawing on his interest in Dominican folklore and the works of visionary saxophonists Albert Ayler and Ornette Coleman, Colon creates a musical atmosphere that highlights beauty by framing it in disarray.
Free for Hunter students. Click here to RSVP.
Undergraduate BA Spring Concert
Student work from the BA Dance Workshop Course and Repertory choreography by Alethea Pace.
Free and open to the public. RSVP Required. Contact dance@hunter.cuny.edu.
Chamber Singers
Chamber singers conducted by Michael Sheetz.
Free for Hunter students. Click here to RSVP.
Hunter Students in Concert
Student instrumental & vocal performances.
Free for Hunter students. Click here to RSVP.
Piano Masterclass - Soyeon Kate Lee
Soyeon Kate Lee, piano
Directed by Geoffrey Burleson
First prize winner of the Naumburg International Piano Competition and the Concert Artist Guild International Competition, Korean-American pianist Soyeon Kate Lee has been lauded by The New York Times as a pianist with "a huge, richly varied sound, a lively imagination and a firm sense of style," and by the Washington Post for her "stunning command of the keyboard.”
Free for Hunter students. Click here to RSVP.
Guitar Masterclass
João Luiz Rezende Lopes, director
Free for Hunter students. Click here to RSVP.
We The People: A Forum on Working Class Artists in America
This groundbreaking forum will explore barriers faced by artists from working class backgrounds, addressing their critical lack of representation in the arts and proposing solutions towards a more economically inclusive culture that reflects the full breadth of the American experience in the twenty-first century. Speakers include Pulitzer Prize-winner Stephen Adly Guirgis, Olivier Award-winning playwright James Graham, NBCU/MSNBC senior economic and business correspondent Ali Velshi, New York State Senator Jabari Brisport, and more.
Hosted by the Office of the Arts
Free for Hunter students. Click here to RSVP.
Undergraduate BA Spring Concert
Student work from the BA Dance Workshop Course and Repertory choreography by Alethea Pace.
Free and open to the public. RSVP Required. Contact dance@hunter.cuny.edu.
Master's Recital
Ariella Crisano, mandolin
Free for Hunter students. Click here to RSVP.
Hunter College Jazz Ensembles
Ryan Keberle, director
Free for Hunter students. Click here to RSVP.
Undergraduate BA Spring Concert
Student work from the BA Dance Workshop Course and Repertory choreography by Alethea Pace.
Free and open to the public. RSVP Required. Contact dance@hunter.cuny.edu.
Hunter College Jazz & Popular Music Combos
Ryan Keberle, Dave DeMotta, Priscilla Owens and Ike Strum, directors
Free for Hunter students. Click here to RSVP.
Chamber Music Workshop
João Luiz Rezende Lopes, director
Free for Hunter students. Click here to RSVP.
Cafecito con... Glorimar Garcia: En tus manos/ en mi nombre
Join artist Glorimar Garcia & CENTRO Directora, Dr. Yomaira Figueroa, as we explore Garcia's contribution to Diasporic Collage: Puerto Rico and the Survival of a People, on view at the Hunter East Harlem Gallery at the Silberman School of Social Work from March 13th - September 2025. Garcia's work draws on the Puerto Rican bobbin lacemaking tradition, called mundillo, which translates to "little world". This tradition, which was brought to Puerto Rico by Spanish settlers, became an important economic activity for women across the archipelago. Garcia taught herself this method of lacemaking as a way of staying connected to Puerto Rico and to reflect upon the religious culture in which she was raised. She combines mundillo with her own family photographs and archival postcards to advertise Frank Espada's traveling exhibitions of the "Puerto Rican Diaspora Documentary Project."
This event is FREE and open to the public. Click here to RSVP.
Hunter College Jazz Vocal
Priscilla Owens, director
Free for Hunter students. Click here to RSVP.
Storytelling Through Performance
Ashley Jackson, director
Free for Hunter students. Click here to RSVP.
Hunter College Choir
Michael Sheetz, conductor
Free for Hunter students. Click here to RSVP.
Diasporican Cultural Summit
The Diasporican Cultural Summit is designed to address the pressing need for gathering spaces that bring together diasporic cultural workers, fostering connections with the next generation of scholars, researchers, and artists. By creating a multidimensional learning environment, the DCS not only facilitates meaningful exchanges between cultural practitioners and emerging academics but also builds bridges to other organizations. This dynamic platform enables participants to share knowledge, develop strategies for collaboration, and strengthen networks, ensuring that cultural work remains vibrant, impactful, and deeply rooted in community engagement.
This event is FREE and open to the public. Click here to RSVP.
Diasporican Cultural Summit Closing Reception
All are welcome to close out the Diasporican Cultural Summit and the semester at large with CENTRO. We’ll have good food, good music, and good vibes!
This event is FREE and open to the public. Click here to RSVP.
Sophocles’ Electra
The Hunter Theater Department presents Sophocles’ Electra.
Free for anyone with a Hunter ID (Including Faculty and Staff). Anyone with a Hunter ID may pick up a free ticket at the Kaye Playhouse Box Office on the day of the event. All others may purchase a ticket here.
Chamber Music Masterclass
Chamber Music Masterclass directed by João Luiz Rezande Lopes.
Free for Hunter students. Click here to RSVP.
AMLC Speaker Series presents Raquel Costa
Raquel Costa is a Portuguese award-winning artist, author and illustrator. She has a degree in Fine Arts – Sculpture and a Master’s in Art Education and she has illustrated more than twenty children’s books. In 2024, she debuted into full authorship with the picture book “25 Mulheres”. This book´s illustrations won a Merit Award at the 11th Hiii Illustration International Competition and were juried into the Society of Illustrators 67th Annual Exhibit and Book. This work was also shortlisted as Finalist for the Bologna International Children’s Book Fair Illustrators Exhibition in 2025. In 2021, the book “Noa”, written Susana Cardoso Ferreira, was selected for the prestigious White Ravens catalog, by the Munich International Youth Library, shortlisted for the Bologna International Children's Book Fair Illustration Competition and the 7th Hiii Illustration International Competition, and winner of the Bissaya Barreto Children’s Books Award in 2022. Raquel is also co-founder of Little Black Spot Creative Studio, with multidisciplinary work ranging from editorial illustration, concept art and design, to branding and advertising. She regularly participates in solo and group exhibitions, both nationally and abroad, and runs illustration workshops for both children and adults. She’s currently an invited assistant professor at IPCA College School of Design (Portugal) and is an educator at Adobe in the field of Digital Illustration.
This event is free for Hunter students. No RSVP necessary.
Hunter Underground
Hunter Underground is a three-night showcase of original student artwork: music, short plays, poetry and fiction readings, short films, art installations, and more. These events also included time for students to meet the artists.
5 pm - Mixer
6 pm - Show Begins
Free for Hunter students. Click here to RSVP.
Studio Photoshoot
Join for a photoshoot on March 28th from 1 pm – 4 pm. The theme is SPRING! This studio session will provide a photoshoot and modeling experience. Don't miss this opportunity to access studio equipment and flex your creative muscles.
Free for Hunter students. Click here to RSVP.
Guest Artist Recital
Tessa Brinckman, flute & Kathleen Supove, piano
Free for Hunter students. Click here to RSVP.
Hunter Underground
Hunter Underground is a three-night showcase of original student artwork: music, short plays, poetry and fiction readings, short films, art installations, and more. These events also included time for students to meet the artists.
5 pm - Mixer
6 pm - Show Begins
Free for Hunter students. Click here to RSVP.
The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe
Join us for this one-woman show with 11 characters played by Zlata Godunova. Directed by Stephen Foglia.
Free and open to the public. Click here to RSVP.
Hunter Underground
Hunter Underground is a three-night showcase of original student artwork: music, short plays, poetry and fiction readings, short films, art installations, and more. These events also included time for students to meet the artists.
5 pm - Mixer
6 pm - Show Begins
Free for Hunter students. Click here to RSVP.
Sainsbury Vising Artist Talk - Stephen Maing
“Breaking and Remaking the Character-Driven Documentary“
Empathy for individual protagonists, and their story arcs, are the lifeblood of many documentary films. What are some drawbacks of character-driven storytelling, and how can we expand documentary vocabulary and form to convey complex stories of power and collectivity? Stephen Maing will draw on his own films and experiences to explore these timely and critical questions.
Free for the Hunter community. Click here to RSVP.
Screening of Union with director Stephen Maing
Up against one of the most powerful companies on the planet, a group of Amazon workers embark on an unprecedented campaign to unionize their warehouse in Staten Island, NY. Winner of the US Documentary Special Jury Award for the Art of Change, Sundance Film Festival 2024.
Documentary screening followed by Q&A with Stephen Maing
Moderated by Prof. Ricardo Miranda, Film and Media Studies
Free for the Hunter community. Click here to RSVP.
Crossover Jazz
Hunter Jazz Ensemble & Jazz Vocal Workshop
Directed by Ryan Keberle and Priscilla Owens
Free for the Hunter community. Click here to RSVP.
B. Mus Recital
Join us for Iris Wang’s flute recital.
Free for Hunter students. Click here to RSVP.
Raised Spirits Dance Performance
Join us for Wendy Powell’s MFA Thesis Presentation.
$25 in advance; $30 at the door. Contact dance@hunter.cuny.edu to RSVP.
Raised Spirits Dance Performance
Join us for Wendy Powell’s MFA Thesis Presentation.
$25 in advance; $30 at the door. Contact dance@hunter.cuny.edu to RSVP.
CENTRO x CUMBRE - Cumbre Afro, Sites of Black Memory: Our Ancestors, Archives, and Arts
Cumbre Afro is coming to New York for the first time and will be ending in East Harlem, nestled between two prominent archives, The Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College (CENTRO) and the NYPL’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. This year’s theme for Cumbre Afro, Sites of Black Memory: Our Ancestors, Archives, and Arts, dedicated to Arturo Schomburg and produced in collaboration with PR-AFRO at UPR, is an opportunity to celebrate afrolatinidad memory in the age of divisiveness; a reminder of our shared experiences as Black Diasporic peoples. By recognizing the privilege of academics in universities and non-profit organizations, the Afro Summit makes resources available to communities to form alliances, establish networks, and share historically invisibilized and marginalized experiences.
This event is FREE and open to the public. Click here to RSVP.
Doves Don't Fly at Night
Join us for Mar Talavera-Tejeda’s MFA Thesis presentation.
$25 in advance; $30 at the door. Contact dance@hunter.cuny.edu to RSVP.
CENTRO x CUMBRE - Cumbre Afro, Sites of Black Memory: Our Ancestors, Archives, and Arts
Cumbre Afro is coming to New York for the first time and will be ending in East Harlem, nestled between two prominent archives, The Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College (CENTRO) and the NYPL’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. This year’s theme for Cumbre Afro, Sites of Black Memory: Our Ancestors, Archives, and Arts, dedicated to Arturo Schomburg and produced in collaboration with PR-AFRO at UPR, is an opportunity to celebrate afrolatinidad memory in the age of divisiveness; a reminder of our shared experiences as Black Diasporic peoples. By recognizing the privilege of academics in universities and non-profit organizations, the Afro Summit makes resources available to communities to form alliances, establish networks, and share historically invisibilized and marginalized experiences.
This event is FREE and open to the public. Click here to RSVP.
Master's Recital
Join us for Pauline Jean Oliver’s vocal recital.
Free for Hunter students. Click here to RSVP.
Doves Don't Fly at Night
Join us for Mar Talavera-Tejeda’s MFA Thesis presentation.
$25 in advance; $30 at the door. Contact dance@hunter.cuny.edu to RSVP.
Yiddish Shakespeare Showcase
Hunter students and alum are proud to share with you The Yiddish Shakespeare Project! We take Shakespeare’s work and perform them in Yiddish, with English captioning.
After working primarily on film, we are doing our first ever LIVE performance next month, which will feature scenes from Hamlet, Julius Caesar, Romeo and Juliet, and King Lear. Performances will take place at Under Saint Marks Theater, Hunter College, and in Westchester, New York.
Free for anyone with a Hunter ID (Including Faculty and Staff). Click here to RSVP.
Hunter Students in Concert
Student instrumental & vocal performances.
Free for Hunter students. Click here to RSVP.
New Topologies and Hunter Jazz Presents Pedro Giraudo Tango Jazz Ensemble
Latin GRAMMY Award winner Pedro Giraudo Tango Quartet represents the evolution of tango, from its roots in the traditional Orquesta típica, then to tango nuevo as epitomized by Astor Piazzolla, and now to a contemporary sound that respects the past and looks to the future. Pedro Giraudo, who has become an active cultural ambassador of this beautiful and passionate music of his native Argentina, brings something new and exciting to the form while retaining all the lushness and beauty of tango.
Free for Hunter Students. Click here to RSVP.
Distinguished Writers Series - Kwame Dawes
Kwame Dawes is the author of twenty books of poetry and numerous other books of fiction, criticism, and essays, including Duppy Conqueror; Wheels; Back of Mount Peace; Hope's Hospice; Wisteria, finalist for the Patterson Memorial Prize; Impossible Flying; Gomer's Song; Progeny of Air, winner of the Forward Poetry Prize for Best First Collection in the UK, as well as the collections Resisting the Anomie; Prophets; Jacko Jacobus; Requiem; and others. His book Speak from Here to There, a co-written collection of verse with Australian poet John Kinsella, appeared in 2016. His most recent collection is City of Bones: A Testament. Dawes is the Glenna Luschei Editor of Prairie Schooner, teaches at the University of Nebraska and the Pacific MFA Program, Director of the African Poetry Book Fund, and Artistic Director of the Calabash International Literary Festival.
This event is free for Hunter students, staff and faculty. No RSVP necessary.
Opening Night of Diasporic Collage: Puerto Rico & the Survival of a People
Join CENTRO on the opening night of Diasporic Collage: Puerto Rico and the Survival of a People, on view at the CENTRO Gallery in El Barrio from March 13th, 2025 to September, 2025. This exhibition honors Puerto Rican identities in the archipelago and its diasporas. The Puerto Rican diaspora can be understood as a collage of overlapping histories of colonialism, resistance, and survival, and Diasporic Collage engages with collage as both practice and metaphor. Countering the concept of a melting pot, which emphasizes assimilation and loss of culture, the idea of a collaged community allows for the celebration of roots and relations. This exhibition also considers the close relationship between photography and collage, both notable 20th-century art forms. It takes the first major documentary initiative on the Puerto Rican diaspora as a point of departure to examine the enduring legacy of survival and migration. The artists featured in this exhibition consider the Puerto Rican diaspora in a fluid and expansive way. While several focus on the diaspora in the traditional sense—Puerto Ricans who migrate to the United States—many honor the different diasporas that intersect with the archipelago of Puerto Rico, documenting their communities with care and showing us a collage of Puerto Rican and Caribbean experiences.
This event is FREE and open to the public. Click here to RSVP.
MFA Thesis Show: LOOK BOTH WAYS
Join the graduating MFA class of 2025 in our thesis show opening. The show opens March 6th at 6 pm, and will continue through to March 16th. Come by anytime! A group show by 7 artist featuring Ceramic installation, Photography, Found object masterpieces, VR, Painting, and more!
This event is FREE and open to the public. No RSVP necessary.
Distinguished Writers Series - Adam Haslett
Adam Haslett is the author of Imagine Me Gone, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Award; You Are Not a Stranger Here, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award; and Union Atlantic, winner of the Lambda Literary Award and shortlisted for the Commonwealth Prize. His books have been translated into thirty languages, and his journalism on culture and politics have appeared in The Financial Times, Esquire, New York Magazine, The New Yorker, The Guardian, Der Spiegel, The Nation, and The Atlantic, among others. He has been awarded the Berlin Prize by the American Academy in Berlin, a Guggenheim fellowship, the PEN/Malamud Award, the PEN/Winship Award, and the Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts & Letters. He currently directs the MFA Program at Hunter College. His new novel, Mothers and Sons, will be published in January 2025.
This event is free and open to the public. Click here to RSVP.
Distinguished Writers Series - Robert Lopez
Robert Lopez is the author of three novels, Part of the World, Kamby Bolongo Mean River, which was named one of twenty-five important books of the decade by HTML Giant, All Back Full, and two story collections, Asunder and Good People. His novel-in-stories, A Better Class Of People, was published by Dzanc Books, and Dispatches from Puerto Nowhere, his first nonfiction book, was published by Two Dollar Radio. His fiction, nonfiction, and poetry has appeared in dozens of publications, including Bomb, The Threepenny Review, Vice Magazine, New England Review, The Sun, and the Norton Anthology of Sudden Fiction – Latino. He teaches at Stony Brook University and has previously taught at Columbia University, The New School, Pratt Institute, and Syracuse University. He lives in Brooklyn.
This event is free for Hunter students, staff and faculty. No RSVP necessary.
SANKOFA
Sankofa is the 3rd annual Black History Month student-led art showcase and the 2nd annual film festival, Black Joy, created by Zara Cimone in collaboration with the Black Student Union. All CUNY students can submit any medium of art including paintings, sculptures, photography, dance, singing/rap, poetry, and more! Black owned vendors are welcome to sell their work as well!
This year, we have featured performances such as a student written short play, Black to the Future, as well as Baruch's step team, the Star Steppers.
The deadline to submit is Monday, February 17th at 7pm. Click here to submit.
Free for the CUNY community. No RSVP necessary.
Lindsey White: What? Is? Higher? Arts? Education?
Please join us for a book launch and conversation with San Francisco-based artist and educator Lindsey White. White will be joined in conversation by Sara Greenberger Rafferty, Professor of Art and Ruth Stanton Chair, Hunter College Department of Art and Art History.
What? Is? Art? (Colpa Press, 2024) is a collection of photographs made on the pandemic-empty campus of the San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI), where White taught for over a decade as an Adjunct, Assistant, and finally Associate Professor and Photography Department Chair. Alongside the images, What? Is? Art? includes writings by nine professors who teach in private art schools or public art departments across the country who were invited to share recent feelings and experiences in higher arts education. Learn more HERE.
This event is free and open to the public. Click here to RSVP.