May 2009: Dancers perform during the Museum’s celebration of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month. The event showcased the visual and performing arts of China, Korea, India, and Japan. This program was made possible by Aetna.
March 2009: Manhattan Borough President Scott M. Stringer and Senior Vice President of External Affairs Harold Holzer with Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney at the Museum’s fourth-annual Women’s History Month reception held in her honor. See more photos on Flickr.
February 2009: The Initiative marked Black History Month with a panel event inspired by the special exhibition "Provocative Visions: Race and Identity—Selections from the Permanent Collection." Artists Chakaia Booker, Willie Cole, and Whitfield Lovell discuss their work in the exhibition with Lowery Stokes Sims, Lisa Messinger, and New York Times columnist Charles M. Blow. This program was made possible by Aetna.
January 2009: The Initiative and the Costume Institute hosted a tribute luncheon for fashion designer Arthur McGee—the first African-American to run a major Seventh Avenue design room. The event was sponsored by Lord & Taylor.
October 2008: Students from the Natya Niketan school of dance gave children lessons in Kuchipudi—a classical Indian dance form—as part of the daylong Diwali celebration.
October 2008: Members of the East-West School of Dance company performed the Ramayana Dance Drama as part of the daylong Diwali celebration.
September 2008: Sitar maestro Ustad Shujaat Khan and tabla player Abhiman Kaushal performed a private concert in The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium.
July 2008: Guests on The Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden at the Post-Pride Party at the Met—a viewing and reception for the GLBT community.
May 2008: Members of Asian Americans on Broadway entertained guests with a musical review at the Initiative's Asian Pacific American Heritage Month celebration, hosted with Asian Women in Business. Back row, from left: Michael Blanco, Jose Llana, Michael Croitier, and Gary Adler; front row, from left: Ann Harada and Christine Toy Johnson.
March 2008: Left to right: Chief Audience Development Officer Donna Williams, Councilwoman Melissa Mark Viverito, and Senior Vice President for External Affairs Harold Holzer at the Initiative’s Women’s History Month event, which was hosted by Councilwoman Viverito.
February 2008: Multicultural Advisory Committee member and president of Asian Women in Business Bonnie Wong and Chief Audience Development Officer Donna Williams with the panelists from the AWIB event "Beyond Cooking: A Conversation with Asian Women in the Culinary Arts." Left to right: Surbhi Sahni, pastry chef, Devi Restaurant; Vibhuti Patel, Journalist & Assistant Editor, Newsweek International Edition; Eileen Yin-Fei Lo, teaching chef, author, and consultant; So Hui Kim, chef /owner of The Good Fork Restaurant; Lee Anne Wong, executive chef of event operations at the French Culinary Institute, Top Chef contestant, and culinary producer.
January 2008: The Multicultural Advisory Committee (pictured) celebrated the Initiative's tenth anniversary at the Multicultural Winter Benefit: An Evening of Many Cultures.
January 2008: Panelists discuss social justice following a screening of The N Network's documentary I Sit Where I Want: The Legacy of Brown v. Board of Education. Pictured, from left to right: high school intern Lindsey Berfond; educator and artist Randy Williams; filmmaker Whitney Dow; producer Tonya Lewis Lee; and moderator Marcus Mabry of The New York Times.
January 2008: Dancers from Lotus Music and Dance perform a traditional Hawaiian hula during the "Arts and Dances of Oceania and Native North America" program.
November 2007: Guests at the opening reception for the New Gallery for the Art of Native North America. Pictured, from left to right: Wanda Quiñones, Rea Cisneros, Nadema Agard, Ferlin Clark, and Amy Silva.
October 2007: Artist Faith Ringgold held a quilt-making workshop for New York City students to celebrate the opening of the New Ruth and Harold D. Uris Center for Education.
September 2007: A private breakfast was held to welcome new Multicultural Advisory Committee member Harriette Cole (left), creative director of EBONY magazine. Supermodel Alek Wek attended and signed copies of her new book.
July 2007: The Initiative held a private viewing of the Asian Art Galleries, followed by a reception welcoming new Initiative members. A musician performed traditional Chinese music on a guzheng.
May 2007: Christopher S. Lightfoot, Associate Curator for Greek and Roman Art, gave a tour of Roman Art at the Initiative's event celebrating the opening of the New Greek and Roman Galleries.
March 2007: New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn spoke at the Initiative's Women's History Month event, which celebrated women in art. Contemporary artist Faith Ringgold—who has several works of art in the Met's collection—was also in attendance.
February 2007: Musicologist Jose Obando taught families from Jack & Jill of America about the Afro-Caribbean roots of salsa during "Art, Ideas, and the History of Inclusion: Celebrating Black History Month".
February 2007: The imaginative singer-songwriter Richie Havens—who emerged from the Greenwich Village folk scene of the 1960s—presented a concert in honor of Black History Month.
November 2006: Multicultural Advisory Committee member Shirley Rodriguez-Remeneski (left) and friends enjoyed a reception following the viewing of the special exhibition "Americans in Paris: 1860–1900". The exhibition included more than one hundred oil paintings by thirty-seven American artists, including Henry Ossawa Tanner (1859–1937), the first African American artist to achieve international acclaim.
November 2006: "A Tribute to Ballet Great Maria Tallchief" celebrated the renowned artist's Osage Nation ancestry during American Indian Heritage Month. Photograph Courtesy of New York City Ballet Archives.
November 2006: Thirty K–12 educators participated in "Merengue! Visual Rhythms: Dominican Art and Musical Instruments," a full-day teacher workshop made possible through a collaboration with El Museo del Barrio.
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November 2008: Multicultural Advisory Committee members Tinku Jain and Usha Subrahmanyam with director Philippe de Montebello at the reception for "
February 2008: Singer Adjaratou Tapa Demba and kora player Alhaji Papa Susso performed traditional African songs at the Initiative's viewing and reception for the special exhibition "
April 2007: Guests enjoyed a reception in the Petrie Court following a viewing of the special exhibition "