Alison Cuddy

1 month ago | thebrunswicknews.com | Alison Cuddy |Lisa Lee

When the National Park Service recently removed all references to transgender and queer people from the Stonewall National Monument website, one of our country's most important ways to honor and preserve the past was effectively turned into a weapon, one designed to further the Trump administration's attack on so-called "gender ideology" as well as on public history. Monuments have been challenged and even removed in recent years, some with acts of civil disobedience, including violence.

1 month ago | thederrick.com | Alison Cuddy |Lisa Lee

When the National Park Service recently removed all references to transgender and queer people from the Stonewall National Monument website, one of our country’s most important ways to honor and preserve the past was effectively turned into a weapon, one designed to further the Trump administration’s attack on so-called “gender ideology” as well as on public history. Monuments have been challenged and even removed in recent years, some with acts of civil disobedience, including violence.

1 month ago | star-telegram.com | Alison Cuddy |Lisa Lee

People protest the removal of the word “transgender” from the Stonewall National Monument website during a rally outside of The Stonewall Inn on Feb. 14, 2025, in New York City. The National Park Service eliminated references to transgender people from its Stonewall National Monument website on Thursday and now only refers to those who are lesbian, gay and bisexual.

Dec 11, 2024 | art.newcity.com | Antawan I. Byrd |Alison Cuddy

Five years in the making, “Project a Black Planet,” the groundbreaking exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago, explores the visual arts and culture at the heart of Pan-Africanism—the intellectual, political and social movements that imagined and championed a collective liberatory future for all people of African descent across the globe. “Project a Black Planet” offers many firsts.

Oct 26, 2024 | boisestatepublicradio.org | Alison Cuddy |Illia Ponomarenko

Students returning to college this fall are busy with the usual activities - getting to know their professors or studying in the library. At the University of Chicago, some students lined up for a different experience: the opportunity to borrow an original work of art from the school’s Smart Museum of Art. The program Art To Live With began nearly 70 years ago, in 1958. It was the brainchild of the late Joseph R. Shapiro, a prolific art collector in Chicago.