The New York Art Institute, Simmons College

The New York Institute uses a combination of seminar-style class discussions, lectures, guest speakers from leading cultural institutions, and visits to performing and visual arts venues to expose us to the arts resources of New York City and explore “big issues” facing the arts today.
The goal is to increase our appreciation and knowledge of how the arts function in our 21st century society and how we might contribute to the field as arts professionals.

African Burial Ground

9:36 PM / Posted by Art 236 - The New York Institute /

"GSA’s African Burial Ground project began in 1991, when, during excavation work for a new federal office building, workers discovered the skeletal remains of the first of more than 400 men, women and children. Further investigation revealed that during the 17th and 18th centuries, free and enslaved Africans were buried in a 6.6 acre burial ground in lower Manhattan outside the boundaries of the settlement of New Amsterdam, which would become New York. Over the decades, the unmarked cemetery was covered over by development and landfill."

- Jessica