Last Art School
A Project by Lindsey WHITE
In Fall 2025, Hunter College Art Galleries presented Last Art School, a project by Lindsey White, an exhibition and programming series curated by Lindsey White, the Fall 2025 Arthur & Carol Kaufman Goldberg Visiting Curator and Artist in Residence. Last Art School offered 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.
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.
In addition to artworks by White’s friends and colleagues, Last Art School features a collection of finger paintings from the Rhoda Kellogg Children’s Art Collection and materials from the San Francisco Art Institute Legacy Foundation and Archive (SFAI LF+A). A pioneer in the field of child art, Rhoda Kellogg believed in the fundamental role visual language plays in the emergence of consciousness and proposed that the aim of art education should be independent and spontaneous. Archival documents and images from the SFAI LF+A serve as a case study on how creative communities can collaborate, resist, and take action in unstable political and economic moments. One of the oldest fine art schools in the country, SFAI closed its doors in 2022 after 151 years.
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