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Award-winning director and Theatre alum Celine Song '14 discusses the transition from theatre to film, dealing with economic precarity, and the need for artists to put their work in high-stakes environments.
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 Film Minhal Baig about the persistent miraculousness of filmmaking, finding process through practice, and blowing it all up.
Adjunct Professor and Tony Award Winner Cody Renard Richard is currently working as the Production Stage Manager for the Broadway production of Ragtime.
Visual Arts alum Vesna Pavlović '07 is showing in two major exhibitions to close out the year.
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Visual Arts João Pina is teaching a 'Visualizing History' class inside the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, part of the Justice in Education Program presented by the Columbia Center For Justice, in collaboration with the MFA Visual Arts Program at School of the Arts.
Adjunct Assistant Professor and Visual Arts alum Dana Lok '15 has been awarded an inaugural Liu Shiming Distinguished Educator Award.
Palestine 36, the feature film by Annemarie Jacir '02 currently making waves on the festival circuit, recently secured another victory when it was awarded the top prize at the Tokyo International Film Festival.
With the 60th anniversary year of the School of the Arts drawing to a close, nearly 250 guests gathered to celebrate the school and its incredible legacy at its Gala celebration.
Assistant Professor of Visual Arts Adama Delphine Fawundu '18 is currently exhibiting three interrelated works exploring the interconnectedness of geographies and our shared humanity—fittingly, these exhibitions take her work across the globe.
Acting alum Greg Cuellar '17 is starring in Initiative, a groundbreaking new play by Else Went having its world premiere at The Public Theater.
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Writing and Fiction alum Hannah Lillith Assadi '13 will publish her third novel, Paradiso 17, with Knopf in March 2026.
Visual Arts student darylina powderface is currently exhibiting her short film, how it used to be, at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston (ICA).
Film and Media Studies MA alum Payton McCarty-Simas '24 has published their second book, That Very Witch: Fear, Feminism, and the American Witch Film with Luna Press Publishing.
Four films by Columbia alums have been selected as their countries' official submissions to the 98th Academy Award for Best International Film.
Vienna Art Week commissioned multidisciplinary artist and Associate Professor of Theatre María José Contreras Lorenzini to provide a participatory, site-specific performance for the annual celebration, which takes over the city of Vienna from November 7 to 14, 2025.