Columbia University School of the Arts Class Notes 2024-2025
We love celebrating the creative work of our incredible alumni. Whether you’ve got a new show opening, a film release coming up, published a manuscript, won an award, been appointed to a board, or taken a new job, we want to hear from you! Stay up to date on your fellow School of the Arts peers by reading class notes below. Class notes are organized by decade of graduation and archived each academic year. Class notes are updated on a semesterly basis.
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Writing alum Elizabeth Harlan ’87 new novel Becoming Carly Klein was published by Spark Press in September 2024.
Visual Arts alum Joan Linder ’96 opened Fulfillment, a solo exhibition, at Cristin Tierney Gallery in NYC on June 21 and remained on view through August 2, 2024.
Theatre alum Gisela Cardenas ’04 directed Mozart's Così fan tutte for Saratoga Opera from June to July 2024.
Visual Arts alum Jaqueline Cedar’s ’09 work was presented at MAKERs and MOVERs in Greenwich, CT.
Writing alum Snowden Wright’s ’09 third novel, The Queen City Detective Agency, was published by HarperCollins on August 13, 2024.
Theater alum Kate Flanagan ’12 starred in Penetentia, a legal crime thriller that finished a successful festival run last fall and was released on Apple and Amazon on June 18.
Visual Arts alum Kambui Olujimi ’13 has been chosen to create a large-scale glass mosaic floor medallion which will be publicly featured at John F. Kennedy International Airport’s new Terminal 6.
Writing alum Samantha Childs ’14 won a Christopher Award for her children’s book, Henri and the Magnificent Snort, illustrated by Hannah Farr.
Theater alum Emily Cosimar ’16 was named Executive Artistic Director of Oklahoma City Rep.
Theater alum Nako Ama Adodoadji ’18 founded an immersive entertainment company called Wild Crux Productions in Atlanta, GA.
Writing alum Jane Marchant’s ’18 short story The Moth was published in Kweli Journal in June 2024.
Visual Arts alum Paul Rho’s ’23 new solo exhibition Ebbs and Flows opened on July 12, 2024 at Rockella Space in Ridgewood, Queens.
Theater alum Ellis Abigail Stump’s ’23 playwriting thesis White Bitches in Delhi was workshopped and presented at Williamstown Theatre Festival on August 10, 2024.
* Film projects involving more than one alum will follow the listing order of Director, Writer, Producer, and other roles.
*Theatre projects involving more than one alum will follow the listing order of Playwright, Director, Producer, and other roles.