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Gregory Sholette

Professor Gregory Sholette co-directs Social Practice Queens (SPQ), art and social justice initiative together with Professor Chloë Bass at Queens College, City University of New York. He blogs at: Welcome to our Bare Art World

Dr. Gregory Sholette is a NYC-based artist, writer, and activist whose forthcoming book, The Art of Activism and the Activism of Art (Lund Humphries, 2022) joins Dark Matter, Delirium and Resistance, and Art as Social Activism (Pluto Books, 2017) to focus on issues of collective cultural labor, protest culture, and counter-historical representation. Sholette holds a Ph.D. from the University of Amsterdam, is a graduate of the Whitney Independent Studies Program, UCSD, Cooper Union, and co-director with Chloë Bass of Social Practice CUNY (SPCUNY), a new social justice initiative funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation at Queens College and the CUNY Graduate Center.

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Reimagining Higher Education Through Socially Engaged Art

by Gregory Sholette August 3, 2020September 10, 2021

The answer to what happens next for City University of New York (CUNY) post-pandemic will depend on expanding the ideals of low-cost, high-quality liberal studies in which culture, self-reflection, and interdisciplinary learning enrich democratic values.

Posted inArt

Reimagining Monuments to Make Them Resonate Locally and Personally

by Gregory Sholette November 6, 2017November 8, 2017

Instead of returning to a model of permanently memorializing an illusory and grandiloquent past, why not consider commissioning temporary commemorative works rooted in local community histories and struggles?

Posted inArt

The Ghost Ship Fire and the Paradox of a “Creative City”

by Gregory Sholette December 28, 2016December 29, 2016

We can read into this tragedy the disastrous head-on collision of two conflicting obligations that the “creative city” imposes on itself and its residents.

Posted inArt

The Politics of Being a Parent in the Art World

by Gregory Sholette March 4, 2016March 9, 2016

The Let Down Reflex is essential viewing for anyone engaged with issues of caring economies, so-called “women’s work,” or the question of living wages for the art world’s service workers.

Posted inArt

On the Maidan Uprising and ‘Imaginary Archive’ in Kiev

by Gregory Sholette July 16, 2014July 20, 2014

With a sharp tug, the soot-covered tire slides free from a pile stacked over my head. Then another. And another. Soon I have fifteen tires loosened.

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Kelly Grovier discusses his book on the history of pigments in a new podcast episode, making the case for how myths and science can enrich how we experience art.

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