Student Kelsey Shwetz is a painter working in the space between realism and the uncanny.

This award is one of the most prestigious grants for early career artists.

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 first installment of the Columbia University School of the Arts Visual Arts Program 2021 MFA Thesis Exhibition is now open at the Lenfest Center and will run until October 16, 2021.

The MFA Index is an online space that boasts several functions—as a virtual gallery of visual art, a directory of MFA students, graduates and their work, and "a rich resource for prospective and current students, alumni, artists, teachers, and/or anyone with an interest in art practices and pedagogy

The exhibition encompasses work by the 31 artists who completed their second year of the Visual Arts MFA Program in the Spring of 2020 who, due to COVID-19 pandemic, had their in-person exhibition postponed until this spring.

The undergraduate Visual Arts Program at Columbia University recently honored their Spring 2021 graduates at their annual Senior Thesis Show. Over 75 people tuned in for the reception hosted by Adjunct Assistant Professor Emily Henretta ’11 and Professor Gregory Amenoff.  

The exhibition, which ran this spring from March 27 through April 10, 2021, encompassed work by the 23 artists who completed their first year of the Visual Arts MFA Program in 2020.

Casa Equis houses Shwetz’s solo exhibition A Lamp is Not the Only Sign of Glass while Hollis Taggart includes Shwetz’s pieces in its group exhibition Unique Expressions. 

The event takes place Sunday, April 18, 2021 from 4:00 to 5:30 pm ET via Zoom, and it will respond to the show, We Fight to Build a Free World: An Exhibition by Jonathan Horowitz, which was on display from October 1, 2020 to February 14, 2021.