Earth Celebrations a non-profit organization since 1991, based on the Lower East Side of New York City, engaging communities to generate ecological, policy and social change through the arts. ECOLOGICAL CITY: Climate Solutions & Cultural Action Project applies Earth Celebrations’ pioneering creative engagement and collaborative art strategies
Artist Call for Creatives: Afro-Indigenous Futures & Indigenous Cosmologies https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScTDK_lrJMKB2PNy2f6JQPyCiTbyr-PoYC50sZVbwNPIpuQbg/viewform
Maliyamungu Muhande, Doc Studies ’20 was selected as a Sundance Ignite x Adobe Fellow, where she will engage with a year of mentorship and support from the Sundance Institute and Sundance Ignite founding partner Adobe. Fellows were selected from a one- to 15-minute short film submitted to
Marcos Echeverría Ortiz, Media Studies ’21, recently wrote a piece about his thesis project for The Latinx Project at NYU. His thesis project entitled “Where We Were Safe”: Mapping Resilience in the 1970s Salsa Scene is an ongoing interactive oral history archive that focuses on collecting memories about the lost and
SMS Faculty MELISSA FRIEDLING presented the paper, “Touching Teaching: Animating Care and Conjuring Closeness in Contactless Times” at the University Film and Video Association annual meeting in July 2021. She also reflected on the incredible work of students in her spring 2021 School of Media Studies course, Animating Resistance: The Subversive Art of Experimental