Author, curator, and educator Tom Finkelpearl received his MFA from Hunter College in 1983. Former commissioner of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and former director of the Queens Museum, Mr. Finkelpearl is currently the Teaching Scholar-in-Residence at the Social Practice CUNY initiative.

Paul Pfeifer is a contemporary artist whose work explores themes of celebrity culture, mass media, and the intersection of technology and humanity. Born in 1966 in Honolulu, Hawaii, Pfeifer moved to the Philippines as a child with his parents, classically trained musicians.

Interdisciplinary artist Margarita Cabrera graduated from Hunter’s MFA program in 2001. Her work centers on social-political community issues including cultural identity, migration, violence, inclusivity, labor, and empowerment. Cabrera often creates sculptures made out of mediums ranging from steel, copper, wood, ceramics, and fabric.

Brooklyn-based artist Sarah Crowner is recognized for her innovative large scale paintings that test the boundaries of geometric abstraction while engaging in its art historical legacy. She has been making art since the 1990s, and her paintings using a craft-oriented process of cutting and sewing the canvas to create abstract forms—along with the bodies of work that followed—have garnered her much attention.

Stockholm, Sweden-based multi-disciplinary artist Ellie Ga was born and raised in New York City, and earned her MFA at Hunter College in 2004. Her wide-ranging investigations address pressing social issues, often in unexpected contexts that explore the limits of the human capacity to objectively document and reconstruct both personal and historical events.

Artist Julia Whitney Barnes works in a variety of media from cyanotypes, watercolor, gouache, oil paintings, stained glass, murals, and site-specific installations. Born in Newbury, Vermont, Whitney Barnes spent two decades in Brooklyn, before moving to the Hudson Valley in 2015. Prior to attending Hunter College she received her BFA from Parsons School of Design.

Guadalupe Maravilla is a transdisciplinary visual artist, choreographer, and healer, who grounds his practice in the historical and contemporary contexts belonging to the undocumented and cancer communities. A cancer survivor who now seeks to heal others, Maravilla is also a former unaccompanied, undocumented immigrant, who at the age of eight was part of the first wave of children to arrive at the United States border in the 1980s as a result of the Salvadoran Civil War.

Hunter College graduate Derek Fordjour was born in 1974 in Memphis, Tennessee, to parents of Ghanaian heritage. He earned a BA at Morehouse College before receiving an MEd in Arts Education at Harvard University. After a circuitous path to art making, Fordjour enrolled in the MFA program at Hunter College, graduating in 2016.