Public Opening Reception for Last Art School, a project by Lindsey White

Opening Reception: Wednesday, August 27, 6–9pm
205 Hudson Gallery, Hunter College Art Galleries

205 Hudson Street (at Canal)

In Fall 2025, the Hunter College Art Galleries present Last Art School, an exhibition and programming series curated by Lindsey White, Arthur & Carol Kaufman Goldberg Visiting Curator and Artist in Residence. Last Art School offers a platform for investigating and documenting the current crisis moment within higher arts education. As educators, researchers, and students across the United States have been silenced, reprimanded, fired, and even deported, this project emphasizes the power of personal networks and structures of connectivity, calling upon socio-cultural histories of activism and mutual aid in a search for community empowerment and fellowship.

In the 205 Hudson Gallery, White creates a theatrical environment for the presentation of her own artworks, alongside those of her peers. The works draw from the artists' prismatic experiences within institutions of higher learning as both students and faculty. While many explicitly engage the complex dynamics of art school as subject, others more irreverently and obliquely contend with hierarchy, transformation, utopia, and the classroom. Participating artists and collections include: Mario Ayala, Alex Bradley Cohen, Dewey Crumpler, Henry Fey, Whitney Hubbs, Alicia McCarthy, Sandra Ono, Ralph Pugay, Jon Rubin, Maryam Yousif, Rhoda Kellogg Children’s Art Collection, and the San Francisco Art Institute Legacy Foundation and Archive.

Participating artists and collections: Mario Ayala, Alex Bradley Cohen, Dewey Crumpler, Henry Fey, Nicole Hayden, Whitney Hubbs, Alicia McCarthy, Sandra Ono, Ralph Pugay, Jon Rubin, Maryam Yousif, Rhoda Kellogg Children’s Art Collection, and the San Francisco Art Institute Legacy Foundation and Archive.

Last Art School is made possible by The Foundation To-Life, Inc. and the Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Fund. The exhibition is curated by Lindsey White and organized by Katie Hood Morgan, Chief Curator and Deputy Director, Hunter College Art Galleries, with Phi Nguyen, Tara Ohanian, Aleeq Kroshian, and Amy Tidwell, and student curatorial fellows Andee Berberich and Rebecca Miralrio. Special thanks for fabrication support from Caitlyn Galloway, Nicole Hayden, Don Miller, Hunter College Art Galleries, and Cushion Works. Additional thank yous to Terry Swords and New York Jukebox, Jennifer DiGioia, Brian Belott, Aaron Rodriguez, Susan Schroder, Gary Ellis, Becky Alexander, Jeff Gunderson, and Jordan Stein.

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