News
The American Indian Library Association (AILA) recently awarded alumnus Brian L. Young '19 with the American Indian Youth Literature Award for his book Healer of the Water Monster (HarperCollins, 2021). The book is available for purchase here.
Two Columbia Playwriting alumni, Gethsemane Herron-Coward ’19 and Johnny G. Lloyd ’20, were selected to participate in this year's Ars Nova Play Group Residency.
Columbia’s Digital Storytelling Lab, headed by Associate Professor of Professional Practice Lance Weiler, premieres its project Blockchain Fairy Tales at this year’s Slamdance Film Festival. Set up in collaboration with many co-creators and supported by the festival, Blockchain Fairy Tales (BFT) is a storytelling experience that ignites imaginations, the idea of speculative futures, and renders the sharing of resources and information as a tactile experience.
Three Columbia alumnae have been selected to participate in this year’s 20th edition of Berlinale Talents at the Berlin International Film Festival. Alumna Maya Korn '19, alumna Ellie Foumbi '17 and alumna Marta Cruañas Compés '20 are part of the 200 new additions to the Berlinale Talents network and will connect with their new cohort digitally from February 12-17, 2022 during the festival.
Professor Nicola López is featured in a solo exhibition at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art. Vision, Phantoms, and Apparitions is on view from January 29, 2022 until May 8.
Cha Cha Real Smooth, a feature film produced by alumnus Erik Feig '92 (CC), won the Audience Award in the U.S. Drama Competition at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival.
Five Columbia artists have projects that have been nominated for the 2022 GLAAD Media Awards. They are: Ray Yeung ’13, Manuela Sosa ’19, Joey Odom ’19, Ashley Lyle '07 ('02 CC), and Professor Tom Kalin.
Patch of Sky, a debut book written and illustrated by Film alumna Nic Yulo '18, will be published in July of 2022. Patch of Sky is now available for pre-order.
Associate Professor Hilton Als curates Toni Morrison’s Black Book, a group exhibition on view at David Zwirner’s West 19th Street site in New York.
A unique exhibition of video art by students enrolled in Columbia’s Visual Arts MFA will be shown in Times Square between 6-8pm this Thursday, February 3, 2022.
Here, we talk with Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies Racquel Gates about taking pop culture seriously, her academic work on Hollywood and the invention of Blackness.
Simon & Schuster recently published a debut novel, Vladimir, by Playwriting alumna Julia May Jonas '12.
Animation Conversations is an interview series with Film faculty, students, and alumni where we discuss working as screenwriters, directors, and producers in the animation industry.
Constructing Futures: Making Ecological Art in a Time of Uncertainty is a biweekly series that features artists who use found materials, natural resources, and the landscape to construct work that addresses the harsh realities of our ecological age.
The Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) hosted a series of events on Monday, January 17, 2022, in celebration of the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.