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Alumnus of the Undergraduate Visual Arts Program Oscar yi Hou (CC ’21) is featured in the solo show A sky-licker relation at James Fuentes Gallery. A sky-licker relation is the artist’s first in-person solo show following an exhibition of his works on paper at JamesFuentes.Online earlier this year.
Several projects by Columbia University filmmakers were honored during the 2021 Creative Arts Emmy Awards Ceremony that took place over the weekend.
Associate Professor of Writing Deborah Paredez was recently awarded the 2020 Writers’ League of Texas Poetry Book Award for her collection, Year of the Dog (BOA Editions, 2020).
The Venice International Film Festival has awarded alumna Maggie Gyllenhaal (CC '99) the honor of Best Screenplay for her film The Lost Daughter.
Staging Shakespeare: A Director’s Guide to Preparing a Production by Professor and Theatre Program Chair Brian Kulick was recently released by Bloomsbury.
For his thesis production, student Colm Summers directs two rarely-staged short plays by María Irene Fornés.
It Doesn't Have to Be Awkward: Dealing with Relationships, Consent, and Other Hard-to-Talk-About Stuff (Clarion Books, 2021) by alumna Paulina Pinsky ’18 and her father, the renowned celebrity M.D. Dr. Drew Pinsky, is available for pre-order and will be released on September 21, 2021.
Alumna Alison Elizabeth Taylor ’05 is featured in the solo show Future Promises at the James Cohan gallery. Future Promises is the artist’s sixth show with James Cohan.
Los Angelos Review of Books presents a symposium reflecting on 9/11, curated and introduced by Brad Evans, featuring an essay by Dean Carol Becker.
For her thesis production, Kelly O’Donnell '21 directs a devised, brand-new, brave new production, New World Radio, inspired by radio drama and questions about our future.
Seven films by Columbia alumni will screen at the 17th annual Hollyshorts Film Festival in Los Angeles from September 23 until October 1, 2021. The festival will take place in person at the TCL Chinese 6 Theatres in Hollywood as well as virtually.
During last month's Norwegian Film Festival in Haugesund, the 2021 Arne Hestenes Journalism Award was presented to Writing alumna Ida Lødemel Tvedt '17. The award—which was founded in 1993 by Dagbladet journalist Arne Hestenes in collaboration with the Norwegian International Film Festival Haugesund and Institute for Journalism—is awarded to journalists for outstanding work in cultural criticism.
Production has begun on La Cabeza de Joaquín Murrieta, a new action-packed Amazon Original series, co-created by alumnus Mauricio Leiva-Cock '13.
Alumnus Adam Salky ’08 will have his new film, Intrusion, premiere on Netflix later this month.
Adjunct Assistant Professor Julia Sanches and Writing alumna Tracy K. Smith '97 recently made the longlist for the 2021 National Translation Award. Sanches was longlisted for her prose translation of Natalia Borges Polesso's Amora: Stories (Amazon Crossing, 2020). Smith and co-translator Changtai Bi made the poetry longlist for My Name Will Grow Wide Like a Tree: Selected Poems (Graywolf Press, 2020) by Yi Lei.