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Several Columbia Alumni and Students feature in this year’s NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship program, its 39th edition. 10 different Columbia alumni are represented across three disciplines, including five Fellows, three Finalists, and two Panelists.

The 76th Emmy Awards were held in Los Angeles on Sunday night, with numerous Columbia alums and their affiliated shows dominating the primetime ceremony. The Creative Arts Emmys, which focus primarily on behind-the-camera craft awards, were held a week earlier, and Columbia-affiliated shows also took home several wins. 

Theater alum Beau Willimon ’03 (CC '99) and Film alum James Mangold ’99 have joined forces to tell a new chapter of a galaxy far, far away in Star Wars: Dawn of the Jedi. Beau is set to co-write the Lucasfilm project alongside Mangold who will also direct the film

Visual Arts alumni and faculty showcased a selection of phenomenal work at this year’s 2024 Armory Show, which took place at the Javits Center in New York City between September 6-8.

Professor João Pina’s latest project, Tarrafal, is an evocative journey through history, memory, and resistance. The photography book delves into the harrowing legacy of the concentration camp, Tarrafal, located in Cape Verde, a site marked by profound trauma in the Portuguese colonial era.

Journalist and Nonfiction student Carlos Barragán has sold his debut book The Yahoo Boys to FSG in a pre-emptive deal. The book is a nonfiction portrait of the “Yahoo Boys,” tech-savvy young men in Nigeria who make a living conducting online romance scams, targeting lonely victims often from the United States.

April, the singular sophomore effort from director Dea Kulumbegashvili '18, produced by Ilan Amouyal '17, has won the Special Jury Prize at the 81st Venice International Film Festival. 

 

Apoorva Charan ’18 discusses her journey as an artist and creator.

Fresh from his success with FX’s breakout hit Shōgun, Film alum Jonathan van Tulleken '10 has been tapped to helm the series adaptation of Andrew Michael Hurley’s horror novel The Loney, for New Regency Television.

Prince Street Gallery is currently showcasing Bicoastal, a compelling new series of works by Visual Arts alumna Gina Werfel ‘79, whose exploration of light and space offers a fresh perspective.

Brenda Wineapple’s book delves into the question and provides many answers.

I Leave It Up to You, the sophomore novel from Writing alum Jinwoo Chong ’21, is set to release on March 4, 2025 from Ballantine Books.

Film alum Peter Forbes ’21 has been chosen for the Universal Studios Animation Writing Workshop in Los Angeles, where he will develop during a one-year paid program his skills in both feature and television animation through writing assignments and workshops, gain hands-on experience with creative executives, and build a network to advance his career.

This Is Who We Are is a series featuring Columbia School of the Arts’ professors, covering careers, pedagogy, and art-making. Here, we talk with Professor Tomas Vu-Daniel about art as a way to make friends, the blessings of printmaking, and how his teaching method encourages open-ended exploration over definite answers.

 

We’re delighted to welcome new faculty members to the 2024/25 academic year.