We were so happy to host some special visitors in the gallery this morning! And we’d love for you to visit too - come by and check out the BFA thesis exhibition. Open through May 26.

🎓 Congratulations to our Brooklyn College Class of 2026 Salutatorian, Hideka Minami! 🎉🏆👏 Born in Hong Kong to Japanese parents and shaped by a life of cultural fluidity, Hideka has always known how to navigate the spaces in between. From international primary schools to building a family healthcare business while raising two children, her path back to the arts took 15 years, but she never stopped moving toward it. Now, she graduates with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Brooklyn College with a focus in painting, and her work is just as layered as her journey—exploring identity, memory, and how delayed recognition reshapes the way we see ourselves. In her own words: "As an average C/D student in high school, this is a very strange new identity for me, and I'm feeling so honored to represent Brooklyn College in this way." We are so proud to celebrate you, Hideka! ✨ — 👍 Follow Hideka Minami’s journey at @hidekaart 🎨 🖼 Check out her artwork at the BFA Capstone Exhibition alongside fellow VMPA students! 📅 May 12th - May 26th 📍 The Art Gallery at Brooklyn College 📰 Meet the 22 Artists Featured in B.F.A. Show 🧑‍🎨 🔗 Link in Bio: https://www.brooklyn.edu/bc-news/meet-the-22-artists-featured-in-b-f-a-show/ — @bklyncollege411 @cunyedu @cunyarts @artgalleryatbc

📸 Opening night snaps! Yesterday, we celebrated the opening of the 2026 B.F.A. Capstone Exhibition, the crowning achievement for our incredible graduating artists. This showcase was the hard-earned result of a rigorous, year-long thesis journey led by @derrickadamsny  and @tacaka . @artgalleryatbc came alive with a uniquely thoughtful and earnest display of paintings, printmaking, collage, sculpture, and mixed media, celebrating of the dedication, vision, and growth this cohort has shown throughout their final year. Miss the show? The 2026 B.F.A. Capstone Exhibition thesis exhibition will be on display at @artgalleryatbc  until May 26. 🖼️ On view: May 12–26 📍 @artgalleryatbc  (Lower level, Boylan Hall) Artists ‣ Nazanin Ashorzadeh | nazaninashorzadeh.com ‣ Raffell Bailey ‣ Tomas Benincasa Reade | @tomasbrart ‣ David Cespedes | @davidxrt_ ‣ Melissa Cosentino | @melons_artworld ‣ Mars Harris | @mothcain ‣ Shira “Adora” Kenny ‣ Kisha Landais | @Klandais_Art ‣ Ashley Lord ‣ Brithanie Lugo | @bibbl_scribblz ‣ Samantha Martinez | @brokeartista ‣ Hideka Minami | @hidekaart ‣ Kevin Molina ‣ Xinia Okoren | @ain.ix.art ‣ Maliq Ruffin ‣ Melissa Sanchez Cabanas | @melii.szc ‣ Elizabeth Sanni | @eliseyi.art ‣ Adelaide Snow ‣ Tia Turner | @ghost.petal_art ‣ Khan Vongjalorn | @khancrete._ ‣ Anthony Zhang ‣ Li Zhi Zheng | @dessert.kyo

Opening next week! Come see the fabulous work of our very own BFAs. Opening reception on May 12 at 5 PM, exhibit on view through May 26.

𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙊𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙚𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙃𝙞𝙚𝙧𝙤𝙣𝙮𝙢𝙪𝙨 𝘽𝙤𝙨𝙘𝙝 Currently on view in 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒊𝒔 𝒂 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒍𝒅 𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 until April 30th oil on canvas 66 x 156 in 2025

📸 𝓫𝓾𝓽 𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓻𝓮 𝓲𝓼 𝓪 𝔀𝓸𝓻𝓵𝓭 𝓸𝓾𝓽 𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓻𝓮 opening night! Miss the show? Our 2026 M.F.A. thesis exhibition will be on display at @artgalleryatbc  until April 30! Artists ‣ Paula | @paulahewittamram ‣ Mya Fisher | @myaalissaart ‣ Sahar Hasan ‣ Dino Romano | @dinoromanophoto   ‣ Mariam Megalla | @mariam_megalla ‣ Alexandra Lane Ries | @alexandralaneries 🗓️ April 14–30 📍 @theartgalleryatbc Lower Level, Boylan Hall

SAVE THE DATE: THURSDAY, APRIL 28 Join History undergraduates as they do performance-as-research about medieval asceticism, investigating premodern people who wholly committed their lives to a single purpose: pilgrims (who walked long distances to special destinations), stylites (who stoically sat on the top of pillars in the desert as exemplars of humility), hermits (who were caretakers of the environment and their community), and anchorites (who permanently "buried" themselves in small huts so they could best meditate on death while still alive). Come explore a corner of our campus that BC students will transform into a learning laboratory where they investigate what it meant to live intentionally in the premodern world. Students will be on hand to explain the scholarly rigor of our embodied research methodologies and the premodern historical context, and they will also help facilitate any willing audience members' participation in our performance-as-research. Location: Lily Pond and New Ingersoll steps and environs; rain space: Art Gallery, Lower Level Boylan. You can watch Professor Lauren Mancia talk about the use of performance as a tool of historical knowledge here: https://youtu.be/4YxpPd86Z_I?si=1ct-5-DxnXCZYrvW

Hey museum minors! Want to learn more about working with archives? Check out this exciting event happening on April 23.

Coming soon…our MFA Thesis Exhibition! The opening reception will be on April 14 from 5:30 to 8 in the gallery, and the show will run through April 30.

THURSDAY., APRIL 28: Join us as we recreate the landscape of medieval mediterranean asceticism. Students from HIST 4006 will reperform the behaviors of medieval stylites, anchorites, hermits, and pilgrims. They do this in order to better understand why medieval people engaged in such extreme ascetic behavior (as cultural critique? as knowledge-making? as discovery?); and in order to better teach you, the audience, how such seemingly-weird and archaic behavior actually can teach us something about how to live in symbiotic community and how to productively critique human society in 2026. Location: Lily Pond and New Ingersoll steps and environs; rain space: Art Gallery, Lower Level Boylan.

Join us for a timely conversation with museum professionals and academics about the challenges facing cultural institutions in these times. March 5; 12:30 to 2:00 PM Tanger Auditorium, BC Library Doing Museum Work in these Political Times -Suhaly Bautista, Chief of Programs, American LGBTQ+ Museum -Meredith Fluke, Director of Foundation and Government Relations, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston -Naiomy Guerrero, CUNY Graduate Center Fellow, Art History -Rosamond S. King, Carol L. Zicklin Endowed Chair and Professor of English at Brooklyn College; Founding Board Member of the American LGBTQ+ Museum

Brooklyn College campus will be closed on Tuesday, but our panel goes on! Please join us on Zoom, along with very special guest, Lois Dodd herself. We’re thrilled that she’ll be able to join us remotely!