Nari Ward
Esteemed artist Nari Ward is both a graduate of Hunter College and a distinguished faculty member. A longtime resident of Harlem, Ward’s family immigrated to New York from Jamaica when he was 12 years old. After earning his BA at Hunter in 1989 and then an MFA at Brooklyn College, he received a National Endowment for the Arts Grant and was included in the 45th Venice Biennale just a few years out of school.
Elia Alba
Multidisciplinary artist Elia Alba’s book, Elia Alba, The Supper Club (2019), brings together artists, scholars, and performers of diasporic cultures, through photography, food, and dialogue, to examine race and culture in the United States. Alba received her BA in 1994 from Hunter College, where she completed a special honors curriculum for interdisciplinary studies and minored in studio art.