Project Type: Ambassadors

Artist of the Week: Carrie Mae Weems

This week’s #artistinspirationis Carrie Mae Weems, who uses text and her own image to explore issues of identity, race, gender, and societal roles through photography and video. Weems’s photographs are at once unsettling and familiar....

Student Spotlight: Bethany Casamayor, The Drawing Center

Photo by Amireh Rezaei-Kamalabad Bethany Casamayor is a Hunter College senior, former Hunter Arts Ambassador, and current Hunter Mellon Arts Fellow interning at The Drawing Center. As part of her internship, she wrote articles for...

Go With OOA: Fall for Dance 2018

New York City Center‘s Fall for Dance Festival is now one of its cornerstone annual events, bringing together a diverse, innovative range of dancers and dance companies from around the world and making them...

Artist of the Week: Orra White Hitchcock

Orra White Hitchcock’s vibrant renderings of geological formations and natural phenomena, created for her husband’s scientific publications, straddle the line between art and science. Closes tomorrow, 10/14 at the American Folk Art Museum.  Follow...

Leadership in the Arts Exchange

Video created by Hunter College Arts Ambassador, Sabrina Song On Friday, September 28, 2018 the Office of the Arts at Hunter College hosted our first Leadership in the Arts Exchange with staff and students...

Jorge De La Vega at Americas Society

Last week I attended the “Jorge De La Vega: El gusanito en persona” held at the Americas Society. The concert is one of many produced by the institution’s Music of the Americas Series. The...

Tribeca Film Festival

Founded by Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal and Craig Hatkoff in 2001, following the attacks on the World Trade Center, Tribeca Film Festival has evolved from an annual event to spur the economic and...

Gonkar Gyatso at Asia Society

Gonkar Gyatso, a contemporary Tibetan artist participated in a discussion earlier this month at the Asia Society. He spoke with two curators, Melissa R. Kerin and Katherine Anne Paul on his recent installation at...