News
In September 2018, current student Raffi Joe Wartanian launched Letters for Peace (LFP), a project to publish letters between youth in Armenia and Azerbaijan.
When George Floyd was killed in Minneapolis earlier this year and Black Lives Matter protests erupted across the nation, Visual Arts alumnus, Lisson Gallery, and Clearing Gallery artist Hugh Hayden ’18 was working on a variety of projects, including a meditative basket weaving piece that he immediately set aside.
The Black Theatre Coalition is a new collective co-founded by Adjunct Assistant Professor T. Oliver Reid, Warren Adams, and Reggie Van Lee, with the objective of increasing representation of Black theatre professionals by five-fold over the next decade.
Visual Arts Mentor David Humphrey has a solo exhibition of his newest paintings at Pamela Salisbury Gallery.
Alumna Alexandra Kleeman ’12, who earlier this year was awarded the Berlin Prize, has now also received the equally prestigious and highly competitive Rome Prize, which offers fellows the opportunity to stay in Rome for four to seven months.
Professor Rirkrit Tiravanija and Adjunct Assistant Professor Dan Torop have photography on show in the New York-based Carriage Trade’s show Social Photography VIII.
We are pleased to announce an option for MFA students to complete production during the pandemic.
Two-time Pulitzer winner Associate Professor Lynn Nottage’s new and as of yet untitled play will join Second Stage Theater’s Broadway line-up for 2021.
Current student Farah Mohammad has artwork in the show Give Me Space: New Prints 2020/Summer, hosted by the International Print Center New York (IPCNY). The exhibition takes its title from Mohammad’s painting.
This week, it was announced that the novel The New Wilderness by alumna Diane Cook ’12 made the longlist for the 2020 Man Booker Prize.
The School of the Arts welcomes its newest faculty member Sable Elyse Smith, Assistant Professor of Visual Arts. Smith joined the Visual Arts Program in Fall 2020.
Deep Delta Justice, debut book by alumnus Matthew van Meter ’16, is a nonfiction retelling of the critical court case in mid-20th century Louisiana that changed American law: Duncan v. Louisiana.
Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director/CEO) and Columbia University School of the Arts (Carol Becker, Dean of Faculty) are pleased to announce the winners of Columbia@Roundabout’s 2020 New Play Reading Series