Diversity Initiatives

The mission of the Hofstra University Museum is dedicated to furthering the understanding and enjoyment of the visual arts.  Through its collections, exhibitions and educational interpretive programs the Museum helps people to make deep and long-lasting connections to works of art as well as to the varied cultures from which they originate.  

Naturally connecting to the core mission of the Museum, a commitment to diversity awareness initiatives and programs has developed and continues to grow.  Each program and endeavor is designed to engage students, faculty, and the public in cultural explorations that further knowledge and understanding of our global society, our shared cultural heritage, as well as making distinct links to our daily lives and communities.

>> Exhibitions

The Hofstra University Museum offers changing exhibitions that explore culturally diverse themes and topics.  Each exhibition provides rich opportunities for the Hofstra University community as well as the broader public to study the work of various cultures, artists from other nations and backgrounds, as well as different eras and times.  Recent exhibitions that foster cultural awareness include:

• Bearden, Lawrence and Parks: Artists of Influence
• African American Highlights from the Readers’ Digest Association Art Collection
• On Location: Women Photographers from the Hofstra University Museum Collection
• Out of Africa: Works from the Hofstra University Museum Collection
• Indian Art After Independence:  Selected Works From the Collections of Virginia & Ravi Akhoury and Donald & Shelley Rubin
  

>> Person of Color Sculpture Competition and Selection

>> JP Morgan Chase Art Travelers through Time: Literacy and History through Art at the Hofstra University Museum

With generous funding provided by JP Morgan Chase, this vital academic year-long program is designed to engage third grade students from local school districts in the study of concepts related to local and global community understanding, through the use of object-based learning.  Utilizing cultural artifacts and works of art from the Hofstra University Museum collections of African, Asian, Oceanic, and Pre-Columbian works, museum educators in partnership with district teachers develop and present this program that links to curriculum areas of language arts, social studies, science and art. 

>> Cultural Diversity Awareness Program