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Current student Khari Turner, Visual Arts, sat down with his roommate Po-Yu Chen, Film Directing, to discuss how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected his work. Their light filled apartment has turned into Turner’s art studio.
Stars Behind The Stars is a bi-weekly series featuring theatre makers behind the scenes.
This week we sat down with Dramaturgy alumna Lynn Spector ’15 and discussed her work. Spector is an Aries who has worked on Broadway shows such as Moulin Rouge and Beetlejuice. Most recently she served as the Assistant Director for the Second National Tour of The Color Purple.
Alumna Mary South '14 has published her debut collection of short stories, You Will Never Be Forgotten.
Alumnus Sam Ross ’13 recently won the 2020 Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry for his book, Company, published last February by Four Way Books.
This year, undergraduate seniors studying visual arts will have their annual thesis exhibition online. The exhibition, which ordinarily features work from graduating seniors in a one-day show at the LeRoy Neiman Gallery at Dodge Hall, will run online from May 7 through June 15 but will be available long afterward. For the show, each student has created their own page on the exhibition site and contributed to a physical catalog that will be mailed out soon. Ordinarily, this would be an in-person celebration of seniors’ last four years at the university.
A Strange Loop by Michael R. Jackson and produced by Theatre Management and Producing alumna Barbara Whitman ’05 won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama last week.
Carol Becker, Dean of Faculty at Columbia University School of the Arts, has announced that John Turturro, the award-winning actor best known for his roles in O Brother, Where Art Thou? and The Big Lebowski, will be the speaker at the School’s virtual recognition of graduates, to be posted online on Wednesday, May 20 at 2 pm. The celebration will salute the School’s MFA graduates in Film, Theatre, Visual Arts, and Writing, and MA graduates in Film and Media Studies.
Father, a short film written and directed by current student Gleb Osatinski, will have its international premiere at the 60th edition of the Krakow Film Festival in Poland in June. Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the festival will take place online between May 31 and June 7. The film will show three times with the final showtimes being announced online on May 10.
Iron Hands, written and directed by alumnus Johnson Cheng ’19, was released on Vimeo Staff Picks last week. The film was produced by current student Tianqi Zhuo, co-produced by alumna Xixi Wang ’18 and associate produced by current student Yachi Yang. Current student Shipei Wen served as Director of Photography.
On April 23, the American Academy of Arts & Sciences announced its newest members of 2020. Among the 276 artists, scholars, scientists, and leaders inducted include Columbia University’s Visual Arts Professor Sarah Sze and Writing alumna Claudia Rankine ’93.
We asked Michigan-based water activists Nadia Gaber and Jim Olson what they are working on and what they are thinking about now. Gaber is a medical anthropologist and member of We the People of Detroit Community Research Collective. Olson is an attorney and Founder and President of the organization FLOW (For Love of Water).
If you plan to graduate prior to the mounting of the Class of 2020 Exhibition please follow these guidelines in preparation for your Preliminary Thesis Committee Meeting.
On A Global Scale is a bi-weekly series about international co-productions by Columbia filmmakers. Welcome to another edition of On A Global Scale. This series celebrates the international spirit of the Columbia University film program and the incredible global collaborations coming out of it.
In the modern age of streaming, the international film community has grown more global and vital than ever. This has led to an increase in foreign language films leaving their marks on mainstream movie culture, emphasized particularly with Parasite being the first non-English speaking…
We asked Nobel Laureate and Columbia University School of the Arts Writing Professor Orhan Pamuk what he is working on and what he is thinking about now. Remarkably, he has for some time been writing a new novel called Nights of Plague.