Who are the cultural production graduate students?
The program attracts a rich mix of students with strong interests in the arts, museums, cultural theory and social activism. Students’ academic and artistic backgrounds are diverse; they include comparative literature, philosophy, anthropology and art history as well as sculpture, punk rock, classical music and modern dance. Recent student capstone projects have included: • Developing an indigenous cultural heritage museum exhibition in the northern Philippines • Reconceptualizing memorial rites for fallen soldiers in Israeli schools • A reanalysis of the history of modern Greek photography • Documenting and reinterpreting gay and lesbian weddings in the South Asian diaspora • Developing a digital learning program in a public housing complex • Critical work in postcolonial poetics • A series of original, fluid sculptural installations Cultural production students present their work in a range of collaborative settings. They are currently partnering with faculty to develop an exciting n
