Spring 2022 Foundation To-Life, Inc. Arthur and Carol Kaufman Goldberg Visiting Curator Lecture Monday, March 28, 7-9 PM Roosevelt House at Hunter College 47-49 E 65th St, New York, NY 10065 Hunter College is pleased to announce that Bridget R. Cooks, Associate Professor of Art History and African American Studies at the University of California, Irvine, and curator of The Black Index (on view at Hunter’s Leubsdorf Gallery, February 1–April 3, 2022), is the Spring 2022 Foundation To-Life, Inc. Arthur and Carol Kaufman Goldberg Visiting Curator. Please join us Monday, March 28th for a public lecture by Dr. Cooks. Free, open to the public, this event will take place in person at the Roosevelt House and also be live-streamed. Please RSVP for in-person attendance and the Zoom link. Live captioning (CART) and ASL interpretation will be provided both on-site and online. In place of the lecture, the Hunter College Art Galleries are offering special extended hours to visit The Black Index: Monday, March 28, 5-7 PM Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Gallery 132 East 68th Street, New York, NY Visitors to the gallery must provide proof of COVID-19 vaccination and are highly encouraged to wear a mask. Bridget R. Cooks is Associate Professor of Art History and African American Studies at the University of California, Irvine. Her research focuses on African American artists, Black visual culture, and museum criticism. Cooks has worked in museum education and has curated several exhibitions including, Grafton Tyler Brown: Exploring California (2018), Pasadena Museum of California Art, Ernie Barnes: A Retrospective at the California African American Museum (2019), CAAM, and the nationally touring exhibition The Black Index (2021–2022). She is the author of the book Exhibiting Blackness: African Americans and the American Art Museum (University of Massachusetts Press, 2011). Her writing can be found in dozens of art exhibition catalogs as well as academic publications such as the journals Afterall, Afterimage, American Studies, Aperture, and American Quarterly.