Gender & Arts Learning Community Application

Calling all artists, art lovers, and queer studies historians! This year-long learning community is ideal for students interested in learning about the work of trans, queer, and gender nonconforming artists and exploring representations of gender in visual art and photo-based media. Students will receive 1.5 credits per semester. Course will conclude with an exhibition at the end of the spring semester. Instructed by Leah DeVun, 2024-2025 Lebowitz Artist-in-Residence, and artist Em Gallagher. This experience counts for both R2: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion & R3: Douglass Discovery curriculum requirements.

About Leah DeVun, 2024-2025 Lebowitz Artist-in-Residence

Leah DeVun is a photographer, award-winning author, and professor at Rutgers University, where she teaches in the departments of History and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. DeVun’s scholarship, artwork, and curatorial practice reflect her interests in LGBTQ history, science and medicine, religion, archival practice, utopian communities, and gender and the body.