Student Fellows are graduate students with a serious art practice, matriculated at any CUNY campus (often but not always from MFA programs), who are working to develop an independent project at the intersection of art and social justice. Eligible students are currently enrolled in a CUNY graduate degree program and will have completed at least one year of study by the end of the Spring semester before their fellowship year. The SPCUNY Student Fellow position is not a certificate or degree program. Overlap between thesis projects and SPCUNY student projects is welcome, though not required.
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Lead by SPCUNY Faculty Fellow Esther Neff, OUR STUDIES SHOW stages collective philosophy as a form of theatre. Spring 2025 sessions will involve "theoretical dramaturgies" (scores for thinking and theorizing together) which re-phrase, re-frame, and re-iterate such inquiries, particularly in relation to "biological" vs. "cultural" senses of sex and gender, de-alienation and "settler surrender," and the role of doxastic logics (belief systems) in collective self-recognition. All welcome; registration required.
The persistence of the idea of the commons is expressed as action in the transnational urban squatting movement, and the many occupations impulsed by social movements. Alan W. Moore joins SPCUNY Co-Director Greg Sholette and current SPCUNY Fellow Ashley Dawson for a discussion of Moore's work on “occupation culture.” This conversation is on the occasion of the “ABC No Rio at 45 Years” exhibition at Emily Harvey Foundation, NYC, April 2025.
Remember: the planet is an archive. On April 24th, join us for an experience of communal grief as we engage the climate crisis through art, embodiment, and conversation.
Come join us for a night of community laughter and fun as we celebrate Earth Week with a lineup of comedians at the Little Manila NYC Earth Week Comedy event!
Featuring: Kyle Marian, Dominique Nisperos, Manolo Moreno and more!
Galerie Lelong, New York, is pleased to present a conversation held in conjunction with Martha Rosler's solo exhibition Truth is/is not, on view in the gallery through May 10, 2025. The artist will be joined in conversation by fellow artists, writers, curators, and activists Coco Fusco, SPCUNY Co-Director Gregory Sholette, former SPCUNY Faculty Fellow Sherry Millner, and Ernie Larsen.
Join us for a dynamic community gathering to explore the concept of photographic justice through the late Corky Lee’s work, co-sponsored by SPCUNY alongside other community organizations.
What Else? is a series of co-created solidarity economy themed comedy shows. the shows will hold a practice of shared laughter as we answer the questions: what can the solidarity economy offer us, after and instead of capitalism, humorously, breathfully? how can humor make the solidarity economy compelling, inviting, appealing? what's funny and beautiful about it?
Faculty Fellow Ash Marinaccio and Docbloc’s Intergenerational Theatre Lab presents a lively, interactive cabaret where voices, stories, and songs across generations collide! Join us as we explore the bonds and divides between generations, diving into social justice and political issues that shape our world, all through this unique, collectively devised performance.
