| GAF 2024 | Student Leadership Team | Artists | Events | Installation Views |
April 15 – April 19, 2024
As a celebration of artmaking at Gallatin and as the creation of a space for shared dialogue, the 2024 Gallatin Arts Festival presents a range of artworks that cross disciplines and navigate various understandings of community. Themes of self-identification have taken on many forms such as multimedia productions, photography, sculpture, and installations. Artists have explored their dynamic relationships with environmental based practices. Works involving the relationship to community have been of key emphasis. Through the show in The Gallatin Galleries, the performances in the Jerry H. Labowitz Theatre for the Performing Arts, and the various events planned throughout the week, we want to come together as a community. Whether that be through a conversation about censorship and political artmaking, a collective zine library, a knitting circle in Washington Square, or a speed dating party, we want this festival to create new connections. This is your invitation to come together.
Carly Baker (’25), Dove Bardin (’24), Iris Erwin (’24), Helen Gui (’25), Benji Hsu (’24), Carolina Hurtado Castro (’25), Caroline Larsen (’24), Sofia Lopez Arredondo (’24), Sahana Srinivasan (’25), Eloise Wang (’24), Gary Whitt (’24)
– 2024 Gallatin Arts Festival Student Leadership Team
GAF’s Mission
The 2024 Gallatin Arts Festival (GAF) is a week-long, community-wide celebration of the unique artistry and interdisciplinary scholarship of students at NYU’s Gallatin School. The Festival features student work in the visual and performing arts and serves as a galvanizing force and springboard for action and discussion through the creation and presentation of artistic work. This year’s Festival features a variety of visual and performance-based BA and MA student artists and showcases the creative and interdisciplinary spirit of the Gallatin student body.
GAF’s HISTORY
The Gallatin Arts Festival originated in 1992 as a collaborative effort between Professor Laurin Raiken and graduate student Barry Spanier. Under Professor Raiken’s guidance, Spanier developed the festival as part of his master’s thesis. Since then GAF has expanded into the largest public event sponsored by the Gallatin School. GAF provides hands-on opportunities for students to gain knowledge of the process required to produce a multidisciplinary arts festival. Under guidance from members of the arts faculty and student affairs, the Student Leadership Team serves as the primary support for the festival. GAF is a learning experience emphasizing the development of ideas and collaborative innovation.
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