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Trapped, a short film produced by Film alum Silvia Chen '21, has been awarded the HollyShorts Grand Prix Award at the HollyShorts Film Festival. With this win, the film is now qualified to be nominated for an Oscar in the Shorts category.
Theatre alum Karen Malpede '71 recently released her new memoir, Last Radiance: Radical Lives, Bright Deaths, with Vine Leaves Press.
In collaboration with Columbia Artist/Teachers (CA/T), The Narrative Justice Project has selected three MFA Writing students—Britt Middleton, Rachel Mikita, and Jessica Hoppe—as the inaugural New York Women’s Bar Association Foundation Justice Reads Fellows.
Sound Art alum Char Jeré '23 takes new work to two groundbreaking group exhibitions exploring cultural exchanges across the Atlantic—and the cosmos—lasting through February 2026.
Theatre Professor and Playwriting Concentration Head James Ijames is making history in Philadelphia. Three theaters, Arden Theatre Company, Wilma Theater, and Philadelphia Theatre Company, are each presenting a different play from Ijames’s extensive catalogue.
Ash on Everything marks Assistant Professor of Visual Arts Kenny Rivero's first solo exhibition in New York in over three years and his fifth with Charles Moffett gallery.
This Is Who We Are is a series featuring Columbia University School of the Arts' professors, covering careers, pedagogy, and art-making. Here, we talk with Assistant Professor of Visual Arts Daphne Arthur about migration, being a student for life, and the conceptual basis of drawing.
The golden age of adaptation is now. In a lecture hall at Columbia School of the Arts, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Film Galt Niederhoffer is priming her students to launch headfirst into this creative intersection.
DGA, Primetime Emmy, and Peabody Award–winning director, actor and producer Ben Stiller (Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost) and his Oscar-winning producing partner John Lesher (Birdman) have boarded the Columbia thesis short film Extremist as executive producers.
2024 National Book Award for Translation winner and Writing alum Lin King '22 has sold her debut novel, WEEB, to Henry Holt books.
Writing alum Skyler Melnick '24 has been selected as a Center For Fiction / Susan Kamil 2026 Emerging Writer Fellow.
Several of Columbia’s alums and faculty are showcasing their work at this year’s Art Basel Miami Beach, one of the most prestigious art fairs in the western hemisphere, which takes place annually in December at Miami Beach Convention Center and forms the cornerstone of Miami Art Week.
Melanie Rish-Ho '24 was selected to participate in the Black List 2025 Writers Lab.
Writing alum Anika Jade Levy '23 has published her debut novel, Flat Earth, earlier this month with Catapult Books.
This Is Who We Are is a series featuring Columbia University School of the Arts’ professors, covering careers, pedagogy, and art-making. Here, we talk with Assistant Professor of Theatre James Ijames about plays as communal, interpretive experiences and the importance of getting people together.