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PUBLIC PROGRAM
CAMPUS SCULPTURE TOUR
South Campus

On-going, self-guided materials will be provided in the Emily Lowe Gallery. Public sculpture has been meaningful to people in the United States since its inception, and events in recent years have underscored many questions we have yet to answer. Who should be honored in the form of a statue? How should we decide what figures are memorialized? What role do our sculptures serve in reflecting our values?

In this self-guided tour, visitors are welcome to view works in the ���Ĵ�ý Museum of Art's outdoor sculpture collection that connect to the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, and the exhibition Our Unfinished Revolution(s), on view from January 27 - July 24, 2026. The individual works are presented in conversation with one another to demonstrate how art and the nation's founding shape our present moment.

PUBLIC PROGRAM
Artist's Talk: A Conversation with Jeremy Dennis
Thursday, March 5, 2026
10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Multipurpose Room, Sondra and David S. Mack Student Center, North Campus

Jeremy Dennis is a contemporary fine art photographer, an enrolled Tribal Member of the Shinnecock Indian Nation in Southampton, NY, and the founder and lead artist of Ma’s House & BIPOC Art Studio, Inc., a nonprofit art space and residency program on the Shinnecock Reservation.

Admission is free.
RSVP to 516-463-5672

This event is co-sponsored by the Hofstra Cultural Center

PUBLIC PROGRAM
Feel the Love
Experience the Photography by Jamel Shabazz with a Heart Meditation
Thursday, November 6, 2025
6:00-7:30 p.m.
Emily Lowe Gallery, Behind
Emily Lowe Hall, South Campus
This event has reached capacity and is now CLOSED.

Denise Peterson, of Denise Peterson Yoga will bring mindfulness and mediation techniques to the art experience and deepen the viewer’s aesthetic journey and foster a state of peace. Participants will be guided through a heart mediation using pranayama (breathwork), mantra, and mudra. Journaling will be offered as an optional practice for further reflection.

The program will include:
Gentle seated yogic movement
Guided walking meditation to each artwork
Dharma talk based on the photographs - themes explored: love, fear, peace, community, and connection
Pranayama (Breathwork),
Meditation and Journaling

This event is co-sponsored by the Hofstra Cultural Center 

Light refreshments will be served.

Seating is capped at 30 guests.
Admission is free.
RSVP to 516-463-5672

PUBLIC PROGRAM
Panel Discussion
How the Arts Can Inspire Empathy*
Wednesday, November 19, 2025
6:30-8:00 p.m.
Leo A. Guthart Cultural Center
Theater, Axinn Library, First
Floor, South Campus

Join us for a panel discussion that explores How the Arts Can Inspire Empathy. The panel includes the artist, Jamel Shabazz; Sasha Giordano (exhibition curator and Museum Director); Erik Sumner (community activist and Art Teacher, Northern Parkway Elementary School, Uniondale); and a student representative from Hofstra’s Black Student Union, tbd. This panel will address two issues, critical for our times: the role of empathy in society and the role of art in advancing social empathy. 

The Shabazz Public Engagement Project is a series of public programs organized by the ���Ĵ�ý Museum of Art. The Project will accompany the Museum’s Fall 2025 exhibition “Love Is the Message The Photography by Jamel Shabazz.”

The Engagement Project is supported by Long Island Grants for the Arts through funds provided by the office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, and administered by The Huntington Arts Council.

Admission is free.
RSVP to 516-463-5672