Keith Mayerson’s Friends and Family exhibit at the Peter Mendenhall Gallery in Pasadena, CA features seven artists from Columbia University: Marc Handelman '03, Dana Schutz '02, Jesse Bransford '00, Esteban Cabeza de Baca '14 (Faculty), David Humphrey (Mentor), Bea Parsons '12, and Heidi Howard '14.

ZORA, the online literary magazine devoted to publishing women of color, recently released the Zora Canon on its website listing the best books by African American women.

With the start of the new year, comes the 35th edition of the Sundance Film Festival. The first major player on the festival circuit takes place January 23 to February 2. Seven films by Columbia filmmakers including writers, directors, producers, cinematographers, etc.

La MaMa’s brought back Professor Andrei Serban’s and Elizabeth Swados’ groundbreaking The Trojan Women Project in a production featuring Columbia alumni Kim Ima ’96, Julia Martin ’96, George Drance ’98, and La MaMa’s artistic director Mia Yoo ’98.

This year, sound art alumna Lemon Guo ’18 was an artist in residence at Headlands Center for the Arts, in collaboration with Sophie Shen.