Faculty Presentation: Sarah Schulman and Dani Levine
Tuesday, August 11, 2026
5-7 PM
Stanley Kunitz Common Room
Join us for a reading and artist talk with writer Sarah Schulman and artist Dani Levine.
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About Our Speakers
Sarah Schulman is a novelist, playwright, screenwriter, nonfiction writer, and AIDS historian. Her 21st book, The Fantasy and Necessity of Solidarity, is published by Penguin Random House imprint Thesis Books. Schulman is on the advisory board of Jewish Voice for Peace and holds an endowed chair at Northwestern University.
Dani Levine is an artist and educator living in Astoria, NY. Mixing pigments, binders, and other found materials, her practice explores themes of chance, agency, and resilience. She has developed painting material courses for schools such as Yale, Princeton, Boston University, Pratt Institute, and Swarthmore College. Through teaching, she engages with artists’ materials as a means to build specificity, context, and agency within artists’ work. She received her MFA from the Yale School of Art and BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. Select honors include group exhibitions at Sikkema Jenkins & Co., The Alfred Museum, and The Abrons Arts Center, as well as an Artist-in-Residence at the University of Tennessee, the Fine Arts Work Center, and The Lower East Side Printshop.
