NYU Portraits is a performance-based program in collaboration with Voices of a People’s History of the United States. Through poetry, monologues, and song, performers create a vibrant, striking experience where historical and contemporary movements for justice and equality meet the stage. Featuring a cast comprised of artists, social change activists, and NYU students, faculty, and staff, Portraits utilizes an innovative approach to highlighting the importance of campus diversity and social justice for incoming students.

In collaboration with Maxine Greene High School for Imaginative Inquiry and Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts

In celebration of a century of Women's Suffrage in the U.S., artists bring to life the words of those who struggled to transform democracy.

Celebrating Dr. King’s commitment to equity, freedom and peace for Black Americans and all people of this country and the world through performances.