News from faculty, alumni and students of the graduate Film, Theatre Arts, Visual Arts and Writing programs.
• Columbia at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival
16 Columbia filmmakers were selected for the 2012 Sundance Film Festival | Jan 19 - 29, Park City, UT more ►
• Gran Fury: Read My Lips Retrospective
Gran Fury, an art collective co-founded by faculty Tom Kalin, will be exhibiting a retrospective documenting their important AIDS activist work from 1987-1995 | Jan 31 - Mar 17, 80WSE more ►
• Project Nim Receives Several Nominations
Project Nim, co-produced by faculty and alumna, Maureen Ryan ('92SOA), was shortlisted for Best Documentary by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, nominated for Best Documentary Feature by The Critics' Choice Awards and nominated for three Cinema Eye Honors more ►
• Shit Girls Say Goes Viral
Shit Girls Say, a web series created by Graydon Sheppard, who studied in the Film Program at SOA, has received over eight million views on YouTube more ►
• Directing Alum Wins SDCF Fellowship
The Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation (SDCF) named Alex Lippard ('02 Directing) as the recipient of its 2011 Mike Ockrent Fellowship, enabling him to observe and assist director Jeff Calhoun on the Broadway production of Bonnie and Clyde more ►
• Current Students at the Galapagos Art Space
Julia May Jonas ('12 Playwriting) and Regina Vorria ('12 Theatre Management) along with the Nellie Tinder theater company present Petals on the Wings of Forgotten Yesterday's Shadow Angels in the Attic | Jan 10 more ►
• Playwriting Alumnus Interviews TV Contestants
Jeffrey James Keyes ('09 Playwriting) interviewed thirteen contestants from the new season of RuPaul's Drag Race for Gay Cities more ►
• Alumnus at MoMA Event
Derrick Adams ('03SOA) will be one of several artists featured at Conversations: Among Friends, a series presented by the Museum of Modern Art's Friends of Education | Jan 24, 7 pm more ►
• Alumnus Featured on New York Times Local
Brooklyn painter and alum Jesse Weiss ('10SOA) was featured on the New York Times For Greene local blog for his ongoing series, "The Pedals I Wish I Had" more ►
• Two Alums Show at Rachel Uffner Gallery
Paul Heyer ('09SOA) and Virginia Poundstone ('09SOA) exhibit new work in "I know that I am awake" | Jan 15 - Feb 26, Opening Reception Jan 15, 6 - 8 pm more ►
Fiction professor Ben Marcus celebrates this month's release of a new novel, The Flame Alphabet, reading at KGB's Behind the Book Series with Jim Shepard on Jan 12 at 7 pm more ►
• Documentary Based on Welcome to Shirley at Sundance 2012
Nonfiction alum and faculty Kelly McMasters' ('05SOA) book Welcome to Shirley: A Memoir from an Atomic Town has inspired a documentary that was selected for competition at this month's Sundance Film Festival more ►
• Fiction Alumnus Interviewed by The Collagist
Writing alum Lincoln Michel ('09SOA) was interviewed by The Collagist; his story "Hike" was published in the October 2011 issue more ►
• Nonfiction Alumna for The Believer
Catherine Lacey ('09SOA) interviews a psychic medium for this month's issue of The Believer more ►
