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Alumni Cyril Aris '17, Antoneta Kusijanović '17 and Lauren Wolkstein '10 as well as Professor Katherine Dieckmann were invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Professor Miya Masaoka, Head of Sound Art, has been invited to the Inaugural Toronto Biennial, which is a new international contemporary visual arts event that stretches across Toronto’s waterfront. She also had a recent exhibition at the Gutenberg Sound Art Academy, located in Mainz, Germany.

Acting alumnus Grayson Powell ’11 co-stars in the first episode of Amazon’s new romantic comedy television series Modern Love.

Current Playwriting student Julián Mesri has been invited to write for Milagro Theater’s INGENIO Milagro program.

Directing alumnus Kareem Fahmy ’07 is making a splash in theatre, directing two plays this fall.

Five films from Columbia alumni and students will show at the 30th edition of the New Orleans Film Festival. This year’s festival runs from October 16-23. 

Rona Yefman ’09, a mentor and alumna of the visual arts program, put on her first Scandinavian show this past May with the solo exhibit The Strongest Girl in the World. The gallery presenting the show is the Oslo Kunstforening, in Oslo, Norway.

This Thursday, a solo exhibit of Professor Rirkrit Tiravanija’s work will open at the Glenstone Museum in Potomac, MD. The exhibit is titled FEAR EATS THE SOUL.

Alumnae Tanya Rae Merrill ‘18 and Pauline Shaw ‘19 join several other emerging artists in Domestic Horror, an exhibit at the Gagosian.

Fiction alumna Jenessa Abrams ’17 is having a great year. Recently long-listed for the Berlin Writing Prize for her short story, All American Ghost Busters another one of Abrams’ short fiction pieces, Griddlecakes, or the Word Above Grief was recently released from British-based independent publisher, Platypus Press, as part of their Shorts digital series.

King in the Wilderness, an HBO documentary produced by Professor Trey Ellis about the last three days of Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.’s life, took home the Emmy for Outstanding Historical Documentary last night.

Adjunct Professor Edith Grossman who has brought the English-speaking world the words of Miguel de Cervantes, Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Mario Vargas Llosa, among many others, was recently awarded the 2019 Ottaway Award for the Promotion of International Literature. 

Although known primarily for her poetry, Associate Professor Dorothea Lasky will release two new prose works in October.

This fall, Adjunct Assistant Professor and alumna Adama Delphine Fawunda ’18 will be featured in five exhibits across the country.