Join the Lehman College Art Gallery at an opening for the exhibition that will be on view at the Lehman College Art Gallery from Valentine's day through April 28.

Queer Love: Affection and Romance in Contemporary Art presents paintings and photographs that illuminate both individual and universal stories of vulnerability, tenderness, and desire in the LGBTQIA community.

The exhibition, which gathers the work of almost 50 artists, opens in two New York City galleries in February 2023−Lehman College Art Gallery in the Bronx from February 14 to April 23 and La MaMa Galleria in Downtown Manhattan, from February 18 to April 6. Each venue offers works that explore the power and significance of intimate queer familial, romantic, and sexual relationships.

From cheerful, romantic expressions of love to depictions of non-traditional nuclear families, the artwork of these LGBTQIA artists highlights the bond between them as art creators, and those with whom they have the closest ties. The LGBTQIA artists often move from celebrating their love to proclaiming a place for queer people within a larger society. Lushly beautiful, their art creates a series of nuanced and reflective, but largely positive narratives, and love’s transformative impact on both the human experience and the artistic process.

Lehman College proudly presents world-renowned poet and activist Nikki Giovanni. In advance of the College’s opening of James Baldwin’s “The Amen Corner,” she will speak about Baldwin and beyond and share her newest poetry.

“Racial Justice, Social Equity, and Climate Change Gentrification” 

The Urban GISc Lab of the Earth, Environmental, and Geospatial Sciences Department, in partnership with the CUNY College of Staten Island’s Tech Incubator, is co-hosting a 2-day “GIS Day,” a celebration of the Geographic Information Science profession and its practitioners.   

In the midst of a pandemic and racial injustices, the world is more digitally interconnected than ever.  Geographic Information Systems (GIS) enables us to have a better understanding of climate change and its socio-economic effects on global sustainability and vulnerable populations who are coping with systemic racism. 

Join us on November 17th and 18th as speakers from across the country share how GIS is being used to analyze climate change and racial and socioeconomic disparities when it comes to climate gentrification. 

It is free to attend, but you must register in advance.  

To register, please click here or https://www.csitechincubator.com/gisday2021