Sitting atop the used mid-century style chair in the corner of her sitting room, Erica Baum, BC ’84, recounted how she went from her liberal arts education at Barnard to donning the walls of the Guggenheim with her artwork.

“Posing Modernity,” the newest exhibition in Columbia’s Wallach Art Gallery, breaks away from curatorial tradition by transcending the artistic norms of gender, sexuality, and race.

Audre Lorde is the “black, lesbian, feminist, poet, warrior, mother” that Katherine Wilkinson, MFA ’19, needed growing up and continued to be inspired by in the writing and directing of her senior thesis.

The Poetry Society of America hosted a tribute to acclaimed poet Lucie Brock-Broido in collaboration with other poetry organizations this past Wednesday, inviting her friends and students to share their personal stories and favorite poems of hers.