News
The Columbia Alumni Association's (CAA) initiative She Opened the Door brings together alumnae from Columbia University in a women’s conference.
The MoMA PS1 show Theater of Operations: The Gulf Wars 1991–2011 features works by artists who respond to the legacies of American military involvement in Iraq, beginning with the Gulf War in 1991.
ZORA, the online literary magazine devoted to publishing women of color, recently released the Zora Canon on its website listing the best books by African American women. Several books by Columbia writers were included on this impressive list.
Five alumni and one current student have been nominated for Oscars by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences this year.
Keith Mayerson’s Friends and Family exhibit at the Peter Mendenhall Gallery in Pasadena, CA features seven artists from Columbia University: Marc Handelman '03, Dana Schutz '02, Jesse Bransford '00, Esteban Cabeza de Baca '14 (Faculty), David Humphrey (Mentor), Bea Parsons '12, and Heidi Howard '14.
Alumna Jessi Jezewska Stevens '18 will publish her debut novel The Exhibition of Persephone Q with Farrar, Straus and Giroux this March.
Our Father, the Devil (Mon Père, Le Diable) (previously titled He That Shall Not Be Named), directed by alumna Ellie Foumbi '17, was selected as one of the four projects to go through to the final stage of the Biennale di Venezia's College Cinema initiative.
After their respective premieres at the Cannes Film Festival’s Directors’ Fortnight, both Cancion Sin Nombre (Song Without a Name) by alumna Melina Leon ’08 and Huo Zhe Chang Zhe (To Live to Sing) by alumnus Johnny Ma ’16 continue to make waves.
On January 5th, the Golden Globes ceremony took place at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles where two films and one mini series by Columbia alumni earned nominations for the prestigious awards.
La MaMa’s 58th season honored and celebrated the downtown theatre company’s founder Ellen Stewart by bringing back Professor Andrei Serban’s and Elizabeth Swados’ groundbreaking The Trojan Women Project in a production featuring Columbia alumni Kim Ima ’96, Julia Martin ’96, George Drance ’98, and La MaMa’s artistic director Mia Yoo ’98.
Many Columbia alumni and faculty were among those recognized by NPR’s prestigious end of year list.
Recent alumna Josalynn Smith ’19 and current student Gina Hackett both received the 2019 SFFILM Sloan Science in Cinema Filmmaker Fellowship.
On Friday, December 13, Universal brought the horror film, Black Christmas by Barnard alumna Sophia Takal ’07, to theatres with a wide release.
It’s been a successful year for Columbia filmmakers at the DGA Student Film Awards.
The School of the Arts is well represented on this years’ prestigious New York Times Notable Books of the Year list, which includes alumni and faculty members working across all genres, and ranges from veterans of the craft to a debut novelist.