The VLC Forum 2026: Matter of Intelligence celebrates the work of Rosana Paulino, recipient of the 2025–2027 Jane Lombard Prize for Art and Social Justice, and the Jane Lombard Fellows. Alongside the prize presentation and exhibition, keynote lecture, and conversations, the VLC Community Dinner gathers program participants and our communities for an evening of collective imagining.
This year’s VLC Community Dinner, Dream Futures, explores dreaming, divining, and futuretelling as powerful forms of intelligence. We convene around shared food, rituals, and artistic interventions, including a new performance by Oglála Lakȟóta artist and VLC Board member Kite, Tȟokátakiya Owótȟaŋla na Awíyuškiŋphiča [A Just and Joyful Future] (For the Vera List Center), with soloist Robbie Wing and an ensemble of New School students, Campfire Cards, an artistic provocation by 2025–2027 Jane Lombard Fellow Stephanie Dinkins, and a DJ set by Moniki.
Held at The New School in the Bernard and Irene Schwartz Commons Cafeteria and free and open to all, the annual VLC Community Dinner is the "alt gala," an act of radical hospitality, and an invitation to imagine, rehearse, and enact collective futurity.
The Vera List Center Forum 2026: Matter of Intelligence is presented as part of the VLC’s 2025–2027 Focus Theme Matter of Intelligence. It is curated by Carin Kuoni and Eriola Pira and convened with the support of Tabor Banquer, Re’al Christian, and Adrienne Umeh.
The Vera List Center Forum 2026: Matter of Intelligence is presented by the Vera List Center for Art and Politics as part of the VLC’s 2025–2027 Focus Theme Matter of Intelligence. It is curated by Carin Kuoni and Eriola Pira and convened with the support of Tabor Banquer, Re’al Christian, and Adrienne Umeh.
The Vera List Center is introducing tiered ticketing. VLC programs are always free and open to all; however, they are not free to produce. Tiered ticketing allows us to more transparently acknowledge the real costs behind our work—honoring artists and art workers, supporting the administrative, technical, and care labor involved in every event, and sustaining the conditions that make these programs possible.
This tiered ticketing system allows those who can afford to sustain our work to do so, while ensuring that cost is never a barrier to participation. Your support helps us uphold our commitment to artists, audiences, and a more equitable cultural ecosystem.
The Vera List Center is committed to ensuring that our programs are accessible to and inclusive of all. Wheelchair or mobility device seating is available. Please let us know when registering if you need this or any additional accommodations, or send an email to vlc@newschool.edu.
The Bernard and Irene Schwartz Commons Cafeteria is on the 2nd floor of 63 Fifth Avenue and is accessible by elevator. There are accessible restrooms on that floor and all gender restrooms available on the 1st/3rd floors.
The nearest accessible subway stations are the 14 St-Union Sq (L, N, Q, R, and W) and the 14 St/6 Ave (F, M, and L) station.
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