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Immediate: October 24, 2012 Media Contact: Alicia Steger 516.572.9634 Email: alicia.steger@ncc.edu ncc.edu/newsreleases

Nassau Community College Presents:

 

"Images of the African Diaspora in New York City Community Murals" 

November 8

Garden City, NY – The Nassau Community College Center for the Arts and Humanities will present the art forum "Images of the African Diaspora in New York City Community Murals" on Thursday, November 8 at 11:30 a.m. in room GC-65 of Building G. The lecture will be presented by noted artist Jane Weissman. Jane Weissman is a longtime member of the Brooklyn-based Artmakers Inc, a community mural organization that creates high quality public art relevant to the lives and concerns of people in their neighborhoods. She co-wrote the cultural history "On the Wall: Four Decades of Community Murals in New York City." Weissman has been the project director and a participating artist for several Artmakers murals. With Janet Braun-Reinitz, she curated three exhibitions based on the mural "When Women Pursue Justice," winner of a National Mural award. Weissman has also developed several traveling exhibitions. "Images of the African Diaspora in New York City Community Murals" is free and open to the public. It's made possible through Speakers in the Humanities, a program of the New York Council for the Humanities. Speakers in the Humanities lectures are made possible with the support of the National Endowment for the Humanities. For more information about this event, contact Prof. Alison Guest at alison.guest@ncc.edu or 516.572.9749.

About Nassau Community College Nassau Community College, part of the State University of New York, is an institution where nearly 24,000 full- and part-time students and almost 15,000 continuing and professional students start and continue their successful journey through higher education. More than 70 fields of study are offered on a 225-acre campus located in the center of Long Island. As the largest single-campus two-year college in New York State, Nassau Community College maintains a national reputation for excellence.

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