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Dear Students and Alumni Participating in the Class of 2020 Thesis Exhibition,

I'm pleased to convey that the School of the Arts will provide, on a non-precedent setting basis, a studio rent subsidy of $2,000 for Visual Arts and Sound Art students who intend to participate in the Class of 2020 Thesis Exhibition.

Oax.D.F.L.A.N.O.H.K stands for Oaxaca, Mexico City, Los Angeles, New Orleans, Hong Kong: these are all the places where alumnus ektor garcia ’16 has exhibited his artwork.

The South Bend Museum of Art’s first online exhibit, Making a Way, is the museum’s response to the nationwide coronavirus lockdowns which began in mid-March.

Alumna Jaqueline Cedar ’09, the exhibition curator for the Brooklyn-based gallery Good Naked, debuted the gallery’s show Night Swim with a livestream event on May 29.

Dear Visual Arts Classes of 2020:

Thank you for sending your proposals in a clear document and for our recent meeting.

This month, the newly renovated Terminal B of LaGuardia Airport reopened with installations by four artists, including the stunning five-ton sculpture “Shorter Than the Day” by Professor Sarah Sze.

Conversations with Artists in Art Getting Art is a bi-weekly series and a play on Jerry Seinfeld's Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee. We interview artists about their art and 'getting art'.

Visual Arts Alumna Xiaoshi Vivian Vivian Qin ’15 currently has works in two galleries: How Do We Begin at X Museum in Beijing, China, and Next Act: Contemporary Art from Hong Kong at Hong Kong’s Asia Society.

The Brooklyn-based gallery Kunstraum LLC presents work from alumna Nadja Verena Marcin ’10 at the New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA) FAIR. The FAIR is a new art fair initiative designed to be entirely online, function cooperatively, and act as a benefit for NADA’s community of galleries, nonprofits and artists. According to NADA, “A percentage from each sale made from FAIR will directly benefit all participating galleries and artists. In addition, a percentage of each sale will go towards supporting NADA for their efforts in producing FAIR, their continued work…

Work by alumna Vesna Pavlović ’07 is currently included in Viral Self-Portraits, an online exhibition organized by the Museum of Modern Art in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

The spring 2020 end-of-semester show for undergraduates is now online.

Two Columbia artists are featured in All at Once, an online exhibit hosted by the Fridman Gallery in New York.

Student Series

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Encounters

by Mădălina Telea Borteș

A series featuring Columbia visual, sound, and performance artists, discussing the art that compels them to see and create in new ways. 

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This Is Who We Are

by Carlos Barragán

A series featuring Columbia School of the Arts’ professors, covering careers, pedagogy, and art-making.

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Constructing Futures: Making Ecological Art in a Time of Uncertainty

by Catherine Fisher

A 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.