UnHomeless NYC is an exhibition of 16 socially engaging artists dealing with the issues of housing insecurities. It serves as a forum to connect community groups, activists, artists, students, and scholars to explore the topic of homelessness and seeks for its solution. In-person opening March 9th, 3-7pm.
In this talk, critical urbanist Manon Vergerio will give a brief background on the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project (AEMP), a web-based interactive mapping project that personalizes eviction data through the evictees’ stories of struggle and resistance.
How to Begin Again is a 4-step initiation to a new awareness about alternatives for the future of urban design. It centers on the concept of unitary urbanism, which CohStra redefines as “an anti-capitalist and transdisciplinary practice that attempts to bridge popular and scientific knowledge to co-produce social and environmental justice in cities.”
In the early 1990s, conceptual artist Hope Sandrow founded the Artist & Homeless Collaborative, an innovative New York City public art project. Sandrow will discuss her project with Nina Felshin, the editor of But Is it Art? The Spirit of Art as Activism (Seattle, WA; Bay Press, 1995).
NYC's Chief Housing Officer Jessica Katz will discuss the current housing crisis with activists, scholars, and CUNY students.
Three Facilitated Workshops focus on the impact of food and housing precarity on the well-being of students at Kingsborough Community College. The first two workshops use Intergroup Dialogue—a deep listening practice that aims to highlight similarities and foster understanding among different groups. This final WORKSHOP #3 will be a public event on Zoom and will create a dialogue with other projects included in the UnHomeless NYC exhibition.
‘Come Back Cities’ is a simultaneous in-person and virtual community gathering to unite and celebrate families of Deaf-Blind children.
Actionists are Master’s students with a serious art practice, usually from MFA programs, who are committed to developing as socially-engaged art practitioners. Eligible students are currently enrolled in a CUNY master’s degree program and will have completed at least one year of study by the end of the Spring 2022 semester. Applications are due by April 25, 2022 (deadline extended!) for the 2022-23 academic year.
Four of the worker films belonging to 2021-22 Faculty Fellow Zoe Beloff's SPCUNY project (in collaboration with Eric Muzzy), "The Song of the Essential Worker," are part of the Workers Unite Film Festival May Day Salute. May screenings become available on-demand starting Thursday May 5th at 10AM EST through Monday May 9th at 10PM EST.
SPCUNY grants for faculty fund faculty-led projects and assemble a cohort of faculty and students committed to socially engaged art. All CUNY faculty affiliated with any campus who want to develop a project at the intersection of social justice and art are eligible to apply, regardless of title or rank. Applicants can be teaching (including adjunct) or non-teaching faculty, but they must have an active CUNY appointment in at least the fall semester of their fellowship year. Fellows will receive $2,000 stipends towards the fulfillment of their project and access to Materials for the Arts. Applications are due by July 1, 2022 for the 2022-23 academic year.
Free professional development workshop presented in partnership with Flushing Town Hall. During this Zoom conversation, we will speak with artists from the Social Practice CUNY program, Naomi Kuo and Cristina Ferrigno, whose practices are based in working with the community and discuss best practices when connecting with people to create art and tell their stories. This will be a moderated conversation with space for Q&A.
Organized by Center for Ethnic Racial & Religious Understanding and co-sponsored by SPCUNY, this online conference will feature keynote Nikole Hannah-Jones and offer 8 workshops to examine what antiblackness is and provide participants tools to engage with it. This year's Innovation Exchange (2-day mini conference) will explore anti-Blackness within the academy. This conference stands on the shoulders of the work of scholars, artists and activists who graduated or worked at CUNY like Audre Lorde, Faith Ringgold, Toni Cade Bambara, Shirley Chisolm, and A. Phillip Randolph who came and demanded justice and dignity for Black people. During the Summer uprisings of 2020 students, faculty and staff saw messages of support from many universities, however much of the landscape of antiBlackness within the university often continued uninterrupted. This conference center Black people and is welcome to everyone and offers tools to address systemic antiBlackness in the academy and the necessary joy rituals that allow Black people to exist in the future.
