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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 Lecturer in Discipline Lars Horn about his unconventional journey from language loss to writing, his teaching philosophy, and the value of embracing specificity.
On Saturday, April 26, 2025, twenty-nine emerging and established artists celebrated the culmination of their MFA experiences at the School of the Arts' annual MFA Thesis Exhibition opening.
Writing alum Kimberly King Parsons '10 has won the 2025 Ken Kesey Award for Fiction at the Oregon Book Awards for her debut novel We Were the Universe (Knopf, 2024).
Through her work, School of the Arts playwright Amalia Oliva Rojas gives voice to immigrants and women of color.
Marinaro Gallery is presenting Wet Feet, the first solo painting exhibition in New York by multidisciplinary artist and Visual Arts alum Molly Lowe ’12, running from April 10 to May 17, 2025.
Our thoughts and condolences go out to the Neiman family and LeRoy Neiman and Janet Byrne Neiman Foundation at the loss of their beloved matriarch and co-founder, Janet Byrne Neiman.
Columbia University School of the Arts alum Marie Howe ’83 has been awarded the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for her collection New and Selected Poems (W.W. Norton & Company).
Sarah Cole, Dean of the School of the Arts, has announced that celebrated screenwriter-director and Film alum Lisa Cholodenko '97 will speak at the School’s convocation, hosted on Wednesday, May 21, 2025 at 7pm.
On Wednesday, April 16, 2025, Yuri Yuan ’21 opened her third solo exhibition with Alexander Berggruen Gallery, Hide and Seek.
Acting alum Daniel Irizarry ’04 directs and performs in Class Dismissed at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club.
These series — all from alumni showrunners, producers, directors, or screenwriters — are worth watching and rewatching.
After a successful festival tour, Kulumbegashvili’s second feature, April, debuted in U.S. theaters April 25.
Inside a classroom at Columbia’s Kraft Center, students aren't only reconstructing their memories through writing—they're also building remembered worlds so that readers can explore them.
Columbia filmmakers feature up and down the lineup of this year’s Tribeca Festival, which runs from June 4 to 15 at venues across Manhattan.