Pulitzer Prize winning critic Hilton Als’ writing and curatorial work shifts cultural awareness around issues of race, class, sexuality, and identity in America. He is a staff writer and lead theater critic for The New Yorker. His book White Girls was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in 2014 and winner of the 2014 Lambda Literary Award for nonfiction. Als has curated several exhibitions, including a recent solo show of Alice Neel and “God Made My Face: A Collective Portrait of James Baldwin” at David Zwirner Gallery. He is an associate professor of writing at Columbia University’s School of the Arts.

This lecture is the School of Art’s annual Robert L. Lepper Distinguished Lecture in Creative Inquiry. All lectures are free and open to the public. Free parking is available in the East Campus Garage after 5:00pm or on Frew, Margaret Morrison, and Tech Streets after 6:00pm.