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Elena Dudum '23 has been awarded a prestigious work-in-progress grant from the Whiting Foundation for her memoir, They Told Me The Way Back Home Would Be Beautiful. The book is forthcoming from One Signal Publishers.
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 to Linda Marvel about the importance of committing to your craft, the value of hands-on experience, and the transformative power of theatre.
Multidisciplinary Visual Arts alum Kevin Cobb '23 has a new solo exhibition, Optic Nerve, at Turley Gallery in Hudson, New York.
Four films helmed by Columbia alums selected to participate in Film Independent Fast Track program.
Pulitzer prize winner, former poet laureate, Poetry alum, and current professor at Harvard, Tracy K. Smith '97 has published a new book, Fear Less: Poetry in Perilous Times, with Norton Press.
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 Adjunct Assistant Professor of Theatre Saheem Ali about understanding your why, finding your people, and learning by doing.
Visual Arts alum Isaiah Davis '25 opened his third solo exhibition, Confessions of Fire, at King's Leap gallery in Chinatown this fall. The exhibition is available for viewing through December 20, 2025.
Visual Arts alums Jamie Isenstein '04 and Fabienne Lasserre '04 feature prominently in Body / Body / Body, the newest exhibit at Friday Art nomadic gallery. The gallery, which hosts pop-up exhibits and has a virtual collection permanently on view on their website, was founded in 2025 by Visual Arts alums Laura Kleger '04 and Justin Schwarz '02.
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.