Korina Emmerich photographed by Jonathan Nesteruk. POSTPONED Jeffrey Gibson and Korina Emmerich will discuss Native American fashion design. Gibson is an award-winning Choctaw-Cherokee artist, whose work combines traditional Native American elements with contemporary references. Emmerich is the founder of EMME, a fashion brand, which reflects her indigenous heritage stemming from the Coast Salish territory, Puyallup […]

Prabal Gurung photographed by Joanna Totolici. POSTPONED Fashion designer Prabal Gurung and Museum at FIT Director Valerie Steele will discuss his innovative and international career. With over 80 percent of his collections made in New York, Gurung is committed to sustaining domestic employment, income, and production. His family’s Shikshya Foundation Nepal provides education to children […]

POSTPONED At this Presidential Scholars Colloquium, the internationally acclaimed Tardo Hammer Trio will be joined by tenor saxophonist Julieta Eugenio. Argentina-born saxophonist Eugenio has been rapidly making her presence known on the New York jazz scene, performing at numerous venues in the metropolitan area. She won the International Women in Jazz competition in 2017 and […]

Courtesy of Theresa Ruth Howard. POSTPONED Join Theresa Ruth Howard for an enlightening lecture documenting the history of black people in ballet. A former ballerina, Howard is now a writer, lecturer, and consultant. She is also the founder and curator of Memoirs of Blacks in Ballet (MoBBallet.org), a website filled with the biographies of nearly […]

https://youtu.be/7M_-ucSaFpU CANCELLED Rafiki (Swahili for "friend") is a 2018 Kenyan drama film directed by Wanuri Kahiu. Rafiki is the story of romance that grows between two young women, Kena and Ziki, amidst family and political pressures around LGBT rights in Kenya. Kena and Ziki live very different lives in Nairobi. Kena works in her father's […]