“We've never seen a collapse of all of the major art school programs and museums simultaneously. The di Rosa announces it's going to sell its property. The Contemporary Jewish Museum. You go through the list of losses in the last couple of years, and I don't think anybody with their eyes open can see it as anything but a magnificent collapse of an ecosystem.”

By Nathan Foxton

By Gabrielle Selz

By Jonathan Curiel

When the announcement was made [about CCA], I received calls from maybe seven, 10 other college presidents who said, “We are not far behind you." And of those three were art and design colleges. We are living in a very challenging moment for higher education period.

By Liz Goldner

By Lani Asher

By Vivien Slagle

"Freedom of speech had become, like, memories."

By Elizabeth Johnson

“I was ready to give up art at that point. If nobody gave a shit, I was probably not going to give a shit myself…It gives me more pleasure than just about anything when artists who have been up on the tower say it’s been instrumental in moving forward to the next stage of their career.”

By Emily Wilson

By S Anne Steinberg

By David Slader

By Wei Huang

"The work is sort of a membrane between the inside of the artist and the social discourse of the imagination… We've watched lying becoming normal, the notion of alternative facts becoming an acceptable construct in terms of what we think of as news information."

By Sarah Poisner

By Tsitsi Michelle