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Visual Arts Mentor David Humphrey is featured in a new solo exhibition at Pamela Salisbury Gallery. Works on Paper is Humphrey's second solo exhibition at Pamela Salisbury and will be available for viewing until August 29, 2021. 

Hector's Woman (La Mujer de Hector), written & directed by Columbia University Film Program student Ricardo Varona and produced by fellow student Annie Pettinga and alumnus Tony Yang '20, recently won the award for Best Short Film at the New Faces, New Voices Film Festival. 

The MAP Fund recently announced the recipients of its 2021 grant, naming two projects by SOA alumnae as awardees. La Paloma Prisoner, written by Playwriting alumna Raquel Almazan '15, and TreeTime directed by Directing alumna and professor Ashley Tata '12, will each receive $20,000 in project development funds and $5000 in general operating funds. 

Directing alumna Marike Splint '07 has created 32 Acres, an immersive, site-specific soundwalk for the Los Angeles State Historic Park. The app, which will be available through September 29, 2021, can be downloaded here. 

Alumnus and adjunct faculty member Sherman Payne ’10 has been tapped to adapt Razorblade Tears for Paramount.

The MAP Fund recently announced the recipients of its 2021 grant: Raquel Almazan '15 and Ashley Tata '12. 

Three Columbia filmmakers have had their screenplays selected to participate in Cine Qua Non Lab’s esteemed script revision lab.

On Wednesday, the Student Academy Awards announced their finalists for the 2021 competition, naming Film alumna Victoria Rivera '20 among them. Three other students and alumni from the Columbia community were also named: Journalism student Zoe Ramushu, and alumni Sarah Collins (JRN '20) and David Peter Hansen (JRN '21) are all in the running for this prestigious film award. 

Six feature films and one narrative series by faculty and alumni have been selected by The Gotham Film & Media Institute for its Gotham Week Project Market, which will be held virtually from September 19–24, 2021.

After winning the Camera D’Or at the Cannes Film Festival last month, Film alumna Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović ’17 has been signed by UTA and the Brillstein Entertainment Group.

The New York Foundation for the Arts recently announced the recipients of the NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship Program, a coveted award that has been administered annually for 36 years with support from the New York State Council on the Arts.

Breathing Water to Air, Visual Arts alumni Khari Turner's '21 first New York solo exhibition, is available for viewing at Ross-Sutton Gallery until August 7, 2021. 

Visual Arts alumni Khari Turner's '21 first New York solo exhibition, is available for viewing at Ross-Sutton Gallery until August 7, 2021. 

River Flows in You, a debut solo exhibition of work by alumna Yuri Yuan '21, is available for viewing at Alexander Berggruen Gallery in New York City until August 31, 2021.

Sundance Institute has announced the recipients of their inaugural Uprise Grant Fund, which seeks to support BIPOC artists whose work has been negatively impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.