Curatorial Lecture by Bridget R. Cooks

The Hunter College Art Galleries, under the auspices of the Department of Art and Art History, have been a vital part of the New York cultural landscape since their inception over a quarter century ago.Located at the nexus of art and culture in New York City, the galleries provide a space for critical engagement with art and pedagogy, bringing together historical scholarship, contemporary artistic practice, social awareness, and experimental methodology. Since their inauguration in 1981, the Hunter College Art Galleries have presented more than 200 exhibitions. The galleries are committed to producing exhibitions, events, and scholarship in dialogue with the intellectual discourse generated by the faculty and students.Widely regarded as one of the leading art programs in the country, Hunter College’s Department of Art and Art History serves both undergraduate and graduate students, offering a Bachelor of Arts, a Bachelor of Fine Arts and Master of Fine Arts in studio art, and a Master of Arts in art history. In its 2012 rankings of “America’s Best Graduate Schools,”U.S. News & World Reportranked Hunter’s MFA program thirteenth and the painting and drawing program seventh in the nation.

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Spring 2022 Foundation To-Life, Inc. Arthur and Carol Kaufman Goldberg Visiting Curator Lecture

Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College

In-person Curatorial Lecture by Bridget R. CooksMonday, March 28, 7-9 PMRoosevelt House at Hunter College 47-49 E 65th Street, New York, NY 10065 Entrance is on the north side of 65th Street between Park and Madison Avenues This event is free, open to the public, and will also be live streamed on zoom. Live captioning (CART) and ASL interpretation will be provided.Please note: all in-person attendees must provide proof of COVID 19 vaccination through CUNY’s <a href="https://bit.ly/CLEARED4CUNY" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Cleared4 access form</a> online in advance of the event.Hunter College is pleased to announcement that Bridget R. Cooks, Associate Professor of Art History and African American Studies at the University of California, Irvine and curator of <a href="https://www.theblackindex.art/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">The Black Index</a> (on view at Hunter’s <a href="http://www.leubsdorfgallery.org/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Leubsdorf Gallery</a>, February 1–April 3, 2022), is the Spring 2022 Foundation To-Life, Inc. Arthur and Carol Kaufman Goldberg Visiting Curator. Please join us Monday, March 28th for a public lecture by Dr. Cooks. This event will take place in-person at Roosevelt House and will also be live-streamed. You can register <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/297339629837" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">here</a> for the zoom link. Bridget R. Cooks is Associate Professor of Art History and African American Studies at the University of California, Irvine. Her research focuses on African American artists, Black visual culture, and museum criticism. Cooks has worked in museum education and has curated several exhibitions including, Grafton Tyler Brown: Exploring California (2018), Pasadena Museum of California Art, Ernie Barnes: A Retrospective at the California African American Museum (2019), CAAM, and the nationally touring exhibition The Black Index (2021–2022). She is author of the book Exhibiting Blackness: African Americans and the American Art Museum (University of Massachusetts Press, 2011). Her writing can be found in dozens of art exhibition catalogues as well as academic publications such as the journals Afterall, Afterimage, American Studies, Aperture, and American Quarterly. The Foundation To-Life, Inc. Arthur and Carol Kaufman Goldberg Curatorial Workshops are designed to bring curators of international stature to the Hunter campus to work with students in the MA program in Art History and the MFA program in Studio Art for an extended period of time. Previous Goldberg Curators have included Ann Goldstein of the Art Institute of Chicago; Hamza Walker of LAXArt in Los Angeles; Fabrice Stroun, an independent curator based in Switzerland; Valerie Cassel Oliver of the Virginia Museum of Fine Art; Omar Kholeif of the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; Pablo Helguera of the Museum of Modern Art; and Lynne Cooke of the National Gallery of Art, Washington D. C. The Foundation To-Life Curatorial Workshop program recognizes the curatorial interests and ambitions of Hunter students and the Hunter College Art Galleries’ longstanding commitment to exhibitions whose themes, theses, and checklists have been developed and honed by our students. Recent faculty-initiated, seminar-based exhibitions have included Life as Activity: David Lamelas (2021); Stephen Mueller: Orchidaceous; Acts of Art and Rebuttal in 1971; and Copy, Translate, Repeat: Contemporary Art from the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros (all 2018); and Framing Community: Magnum Photos, 1947–Present (2017).

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