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Filmmaker and Adjunct Professor at Columbia Climate School, Lydia Dean Pilcher, seeks to bring climate back into the cultural conversation with “Climatic Change: Storytelling Arts, Zeitgeist, and our Future,” an interdisciplinary graduate course in the Climate School, offered jointly with the School of the Arts.
Columbia students, alumni, and faculty are making their presence known at this year’s Art Basel Miami Beach, one of the world’s premiere art fairs. Upwards of twenty Columbia affiliates will have their work presented in connection with the fair’s wide array of platforms.
Alum Baris Gokturk ’20 discusses their journey as an artist and creator.
When asked to explain sound art, Assistant Director of the Sound Art Program Seth Cluett provides a nuanced perspective that highlights its position at the intersection of the art and music worlds. "For a long time, sound art was a kind of catch-all for all of the things that happened in between the art world and the music world," he explained.
Visual Arts alum Kambui Olujimi '13 is taking a deep dive into questions of race, history, and the universe in his new exhibition, North Star at the San Jose Museum of Art (SJMA) in California.
Visual Arts alum James Holl ’77 is being celebrated with three new exhibitions in the Hudson Valley this fall. The exhibits, opening at TurnPark Art Space in Massachusetts, Athens Cultural Center, and The Lockwood Gallery in New York, are in tandem with the release of Holl’s new publication, The Landscape Painter 1972-2023, from publisher Edizioni Grifo.
Visual Arts student Ashley McLean recently enjoyed a solo exhibition, Seeking You in Other Bodies…, at the Blue Sky Gallery, as part of The Annual En Foco Photography Fellowship.
Visual Arts students Javier Griffey and Sharon Lee, along with Undergraduate Visual Arts student Vivien Ko Sweet, are exhibiting new works responding to Coney Island's rich history as a site of leisure, creativity, and cultural exchange.
Director of Visual Arts Graduate Studies and Assistant Professor Adama Delphine Fawundu ’18 has debuted a new large-scale, site-specific installation titled Ancestral Whispers at Lefferts Historic House in Prospect Park. The installation is part of Fawundu's role as the inaugural Artist in Residence for the Prospect Park Alliance's ReImagine Lefferts initiative.
Seth Cluett, prolific multi-hyphenate in the arts and academia who serves as Director at Columbia’s Computer Music Center and Assistant Director of the Sound Art MFA Program, debuted two new works on Sunday, September 22 in a show at the historic Roulette Intermedium in Brooklyn.
Visual Arts student Lukeson Michael Igwe and alum Andie Carver ‘24 were selected as 2024 recipients of the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation grant. The Foundation was created in 1955 by Charles Glass Greenshields in memory of his mother, Elizabeth.
Visual Arts alum Meaghan Elyse ’23 has a new show at The Boiler, ELM Foundation titled Lighthouse of Moth. Reflecting upon waste, violence against the earth and other bodies, this work asks: can the frequency of a body be felt across a room? Across the earth?
