Tuesday, February 13, 3:00 – 5:00pm | Lisa Phillips in Conversation with Mark Tribe | 133/141 West 21st Street, room 101C

MFA Fine Arts presents a conversation between department chair Mark Tribe and Toby Devan Lewis Director of the New Museum Lisa Phillips. Since her tenure began in 1999, Phillips has dramatically expanded the museum, its board, staff, attendance and budget, and continues to diversify its leadership and audience. Phillips spearheaded and realized the Museum’s first dedicated building (2007) designed by the leading architects SANAA, who subsequently won the Pritzker Prize. She also co-founded NEW INC (2014), the first museum-led incubator for cultural creatives. She is currently leading a second building expansion by OMA/Shohei Shigematsu and Rem Koolhaas.

Tuesday, February 13, 6:30 – 8:00pm | Remembering Bayard Rustin | SVA Theatre, 333 West 23rd Street

In honor of the 60th anniversary of the March on Washington, Black History Month, and the release of a Netflix film and several books on activist and organizer Bayard Rustin, BFA Visual and Critical Studies, the Honors Program, and SVA Diversity, Equity and Inclusion will be holding a screening of the seminal documentary Brother Outsider on Rustin’s life and contributions to the movement and American democracy. After the screening, there will be a special panel discussion on Rustin and the movement with Walter Naegle, an artist and Rustin’s partner, and Velma and Norman Hill, two veteran civil rights and labor movement organizers, who were close to Rustin and have just recently published their own joint memoir, Climbing the Rough Side of the Mountain, about their time in the movement.

Tuesday, February 13, 7:00 – 8:30pm | i3 Photo Lecture: Stefan Falke | 136 West 21st Street room 418F

MPS Digital Photography presents a talk with photographer Stefan Falke, who works for corporate and editorial clients, as part of the i3: Images, Ideas, Inspiration lecture series. Falke’s personal projects resulted in three acclaimed photo books: Moko Jumbies: The Dancing Spirits of Trinidad, LA FRONTERA: Artists along the US Mexican Border and Keep Going New York!!. These projects were shown in over 20 solo exhibitions at art institutions and prestigious photo festivals like Photoville in New York, Visa Pour L’Image in Perpignan, Triennale Der Photographie in Hamburg and Xposure Photo Festival in Sharjah, UAE (2024).

Wednesday, February 14, 12:00 – 1:00pm | The Curatorial Roundtable: Margot Norton (Berkeley) | Online

MA Curatorial Practice presents a talk with Margot Norton on her approach to curating through examples of select recent exhibitions and the 2021 New Museum Triennial, as well as plans for future programming at Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive.

Friday, February 16, 6:00 – 7:30pm | Community Lecture Series: The Rituals of Supervision | Online

In this virtual lecture presented by MPS Art Therapy, faculty members Robert Grant, ATR-BC, ATCS, LCAT, and Eileen McGann, ATR-BC, LCAT, will engage in a conversation focusing on the nature, complexities and relational space that is needed in supervision. The conversation will also focus on the rituals established to facilitate growth, change and how to sustain this process in one's professional development.

Wednesday, February 21, 9:00 – 10:00am | The Curatorial Roundtable: Jo Ying Peng (Mexico City) | Online

MA Curatorial Practice presents a talk with Jo Ying Peng, an independent curator currently based in Mexico City who runs Vernacular Institute. Her practice ranges across curatorial, editorial and cinematic boundaries to expand possibilities beyond linear narratives.

Tuesday, February 27, 3:00 – 5:00pm | Sanya Kantarovsky | 133/141 West 21st Street, room 101C

MFA Fine Arts presents a talk by Sanya Kantarovsky, a Moscow-born artist based in New York who works across the fields of painting, printmaking, animation and film. In 2023, he presented solo gallery exhibitions at Taka Ishii, Kyoto, and Nonaka-Hill, Los Angeles; and was the subject of several institutional solo exhibitions, including Aspen Art Museum, 2022; Kunsthalle Basel, 2018; and Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, 2017. His work has been featured in group exhibitions at Kunsthalle Zurich; Museum de Fundatie, Zwolle, Netherlands; the Jewish Museum, New York; and SculptureCenter, New York; and is held in numerous personal collections.

Tuesday, February 27, 7:00 – 8:30pm | i3 Photo Lecture: Destiny Mata | 136 West 21st Streey, room 418-F

MPS Digital Photography presents a talk with Destiny Mata, an award-winning Mexican American photographer and filmmaker based in her native New York City, focusing on issues of subculture and community, part of the i3: Images, Ideas, Inspiration lecture series. Mata spent two years as director of photography programs at the Lower Eastside Girls Club. Her photography has been published in The New York Times, The Nation, The Guardian and The Culture Crush and has been included in group and solo exhibitions. She is currently preparing a series of documentary works, continuing her exploration of the fabric of the communities around her.

This month at the College features several student work presentations, Marshall Arisman’s ongoing tribute exhibition, a town-hall talk on AI, and more.