NSGS::Shannon Lumpkin
-Shannon’s full profile will appear shortly. In the meantime, here is Shannon’s campaign statement.
I was shocked at college to see one hundred of my classmates in the library all reading
copies of the same book. Instead of doing as they did, I went into the stacks and read the first book
written by an author whose name began with Z. I received the highest grade in the class. That convinced
me that the institution was not being run correctly. I left.
Cage, John (1991).
But I’m here and you are too; we are not leaving:
the present:
passion, might I say hope>
1) The New School has an exceptional history and deserves an exceptional future.
1.b) Each school within the New School will have a new cultural liaison. This elected person and
accompanying guild will research and outreach to the respective happenings with-in the city as well as
others; as educated curatorial will applies to the overall and founding philosophy of the New School, and
more specifically to the vision of each enveloped institution, the guild will incorporate the school into the
larger, and less recognized aspects of our city’s, and other’s intellectual, societal, and cultural endeavors.
2) A 24 hour study/production space.
3) Vera List Center support for archiving what has been, collecting what is and will be in the visual, per-
formative, and experimental arts.
4) A faculty Senate, Residency, and respected union
5) Vending machines housing student’s work, and hand bottled water from the water bottling fountain;
12th St. Of course the bottles will recycle; be designed by the minds at Parson-s, also raise money for
student and faculty projects–be it, documenting, engaging politically in other countries or our own,
researching, producing, performing silence, devising new mathematical methods. films (yes!) writing!,
painting, acting, teaching, lecturing, or building a factory, bottling water, kick-starting an engaged
happening.write.
All rights reserved.
Shannon Lumpkin