Join us on Wednesday, March 29 from 4:00 - 5:30 PM to get some tips about interviewing for graduate school admissions.  If you are applying to a program that requires an interview as part of their admissions procedure, this session is for you!  Come and get some tips to help you prepare.   

Zoom link:   

https://zoom.us/j/96024664498?pwd=ZnZZS2d5RytFdTEyVHFjSHRsbkkrQT09

Join us Fridays at noon for the latest Turnbull series that examines queer and binary representation within the world of art and design, as well as its audiences. The series coincides with and is conceptually aligned with Lehman College Art Gallery’s spring 2023 exhibition, Queer Love: Affection and Romance in Contemporary Art. 

Moderated by David Schwittek, associate professor of Digital Media and Graphic Design in the Art Department of Lehman College.

March 10
Designing with the Queer User in Mind
Dani Lucchese 
Faculty Member at Lehman College

March 17
Design Activism
Ali Bibbo
Associate Art Director, Planned Parenthood Federation of America

March 24
Artist Response
David Rios Ferriera
Artist, director of Public Programs and curator of Contemporary Art,
Children's Museum of Manhattan

March 31
Artist Response
C. Finlay
Artist, Founder and Curator of the Every Woman Biennial,
Director of La MaMa Galleria

The Sara Little Turnbull Visiting Designer Speaker Series is made possible by a grant from the Sara Little Turnbull Foundation.

Register for the full series here:
https://lehman-cuny-edu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_nCjJj-xmQJqI2z8u5dL6QQ

Looking for Miss America is the first feminist history of the Miss America pageant. From its start in 1921 as an Atlantic City tourist draw to its current incarnation as a scholarship competition, the pageant has indexed women’s status during periods of social change–the post-suffrage 1920s, the Eisenhower 1950s, the #MeToo era. This ever-changing institution has been shaped by war, evangelism, the rise of television and reality TV, and, significantly, by contestants who confounded expectations.

Spotlighting individuals, from Yolande Betbeze, whose refusal to pose in swimsuits led an angry sponsor to launch the rival Miss USA contest, to the first black winner, Vanessa Williams, who received death threats and was protected by sharpshooters in her hometown parade, Mifflin shows how women made hard bargains even as they used the pageant for economic advancement. The pageant’s history includes, crucially, those it excluded; the notorious Rule Seven, which required contestants to be “of the white race,” was retired in the 1950s, but no women of color were crowned until the 1980s. Written in deeply researched, fast-paced chapters that unpack each decade of the competition,  Looking for Miss America examines the heady blend of capitalism, patriotism, class anxiety, and cultural mythology that has fueled this American ritual.