Fall 2024
Columbia University School of the Arts Presents...
Heidi Howard, Me Fish, 2024. Acrylic on canvas, 60 x 80 inches. Courtesy of the artist. Photo by Charles Benton.
“Please join us for a season of readings, screenings, conversations, and more with these and other extraordinary artists.”
–Sarah Cole, Dean of Columbia University School of the Arts
Schedule of Events
September 14–20: Free Lantern-Building Workshops
Saturday, September 21, 8 PM: Procession from Morningside Park to Columbia University
Morningside Lights returns with In Retrospect, “a shared celebration of a century of New York art and artists that have shaped our vision of the city.” This event is produced by the Arts Initiative and Miller Theatre. The concept and direction is by Processional Arts Workshop.
Thursday, September 26, 6:30 PM
What does it mean to be a “diva”? Writing professors Deborah Paredez and Margo Jefferson discuss Paredez’s “powerful blend of incisive criticism and electric memoir” that touches on the work of Celia Cruz, Venus and Serena Williams, Divine, Aretha Franklin, and other icons. Introduced by Sarah Cole, Dean of Columbia University School of the Arts.
On view: September 12–October 10, 9 AM–5 PM
Reception and book launch: Friday, September 27, 5–7 PM
The LeRoy Neiman Gallery presents an exhibition of prints and paintings by School of the Arts alum Heidi Howard ’14 — observational portraits made over the past three years and self-portraits that reference Matisse's series of women before aquariums, Warhol's self-portraits, and other iconic images of faces — in conjunction with the launch of Howard's titular 424-page color monograph published by Phoebe Press.
Thursday, October 10, 6:30 PM
Writer Jennifer Homans — author of Apollo's Angels: A History of Ballet and the monumental recent biography of George Balanchine, Mr. B — in conversation with Zuckerman Institute neuroscientist Daniel Wolpert, whose research focuses on experimental approaches to human movement. Moderated by Dean Emerita and Professor of the Arts Carol Becker and Professor of Brain Science Daphna Shohamy.
Wednesday, October 30, 7 PM
Playwright and faculty member David Henry Hwang and director Leigh Silverman discuss Yellow Face, Hwang’s acclaimed and “laugh-out-loud farce about the complexities of race.” Moderated by playwright and director James Ijames.
Thursday, November 14, 6:30 PM
Celebrated visual artist Shahzia Sikander — Alan Kanzer Artist-in-Residence at the Zuckerman Institute and Mentor in the MFA Visual Arts Program — discusses work including Witness, which was recently vandalized. “I have chosen not to repair it. I want to leave it beheaded, for all to see. The work is now a witness to the fissures in our country.” Response by Betti-Sue Hertz, Director and Chief Curator, Wallach Art Gallery.
Friday, November 22, 6:30 PM
“Leo, a trans man, and his cisgender and straight friend Eleanor go on a weekend trip, during which they uncover some old secrets, new challenges, and find the answer to the age-old question: can good friends and bad sex mix?” Screening followed by a conversation between Writer, Director, and School of the Arts alum Noah Schamus ’21 and Ron Gregg, Film and Media Studies, positioning Summer Solstice within the history of queer cinema.
Movies make small things big and big things small. This fall, shrink down to a subatomic level in The Incredible Shrinking Man and grow to enormous size in Honey, I Blew Up the Kid. Explore filmmaking techniques like rotoscoping in Gulliver’s Travels, stop-motion in James and the Giant Peach, and much more.
School of the Arts Land Acknowledgement
Columbia University School of the Arts recognizes Manhattan as part of the ancestral and traditional homeland of the Lenni-Lenape and Wappinger people. At the School of the Arts, we believe education and the arts are critical spaces to address issues of exclusion, erasure, and systemic discrimination.