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

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

Black Space: Negotiating Race, Diversity, and Belonging in the Ivory Tower

In Black Space, Sherry L. Deckman takes us into the lives of the members of the Kuumba Singers, a Black student organization at Harvard with racially diverse members, and a self-proclaimed safe space for anyone but particularly Black students. Uniquely focusing on Black students in an elite space where they are the majority, Deckman provides a case study in how colleges and universities might reimagine safe spaces. This work illuminates ways administrators, faculty, student affairs staff, and indeed, students themselves, might productively address issues of difference and anti-Blackness for the purpose of fostering critically inclusive campus environments.

Radical Care: Leading for Justice in Urban Schools

Educators often invoke the term care to describe why they entered the field and what compels them to continue. This book argues that care, as typically described and enacted, is not sufficient for leading schools, particularly those serving Black and Latinx children. Instead, school leaders need to embrace radical care. Drawing from 20 years of researching and working in New York City public schools, Rosa Rivera-McCutchen outlines the five components of radical care: adopting an antiracist stance, cultivating authentic relationships, believing in students’ and teachers’ capacity for excellence, leveraging power strategically, and embracing a spirit of radical hope.