NEW YORK, NY.- Hunter College has entered into a major partnership with the Fundación Cisneros/Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros (CPPC) that will have a transformative impact on the teaching and development of Latin American art at Hunter. The initiative establishes the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Professorship in Latin American Art at Hunter and provides Hunter students with access to the resources of the CPPC. These range from curatorial scholarship to archival materials, to artworks from the collection that will be made available to the Hunter College Art Galleries for study, exhibition, and publication. The Cisneros Professor will develop a formal program of teaching Latin American and Caribbean art at Hunter, serving as an ambassador for the field throughout the College. He or she will also organize public programs that will serve both the Hunter and greater New York City communities. An international search for the