Arts & Culture
ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Press and Sound Beat: Access Audio Partner to Produce Audiobooks
ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Press and Sound Beat: Access Audio, which is produced at Belfer Audio Laboratory and Archive at ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Libraries, have partnered to produce audiobooks. Their first two audiobooks, “Reservoir Year: A Walker’s Book of Days” by Nina Shengold…
Kevin Richardson to Receive Historic Honorary Degree
ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ announced today that Kevin Richardson, a member of the Exonerated Five, will be the recipient of the first honorary undergraduate degree in University history. The honorary bachelor of fine arts in music will be formally conferred at the…
Native American, Indigenous Studies Program Director Comments on Planned Columbus Statue Removal
Today, ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Mayor Ben Walsh announced that the Christopher Columbus downtown in Columbus Circle will be removed and relocated. It will be moved to a private site. Mayor Walsh says the fountain and monument in Columbus Circle will remain and…
Community Folk Art Center Awarded $20,000 Black Excellence Grant from Central New York Community Foundation
The Central New York Community Foundation (CNYCF) recently awarded the Community Folk Art Center (CFAC) $20,000 as part of the Black Equity and Excellence Grant. The Community Folk Art Center, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization and branch of the Department of…
Light Work Announces 2021 Remote Artist-in-Residence Program
Each year, Light Work supports at least a dozen emerging and underrepresented artists working in photography and related media with month-long residencies and a total of over $60,000 in support. In addition to being awarded an unrestricted stipend of $5,000,…
BCCE Creates Community Through Gospel Music
Rev. Dr. Seretta C. McKnight ’80 came to ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ in the fall of 1976. As a freshman she had a difficult time finding her place on campus. “The thing I found missing my freshman year was that sense of…
First-Year Architecture Students Get in ‘Good Trouble’
During the first four weeks of the Fall 2020 semester, 108 freshmen architecture students in Assistant Teaching Professor Valeria Rachel Herrera’s representation course (ARC 181) were immersed in a rigorous foundational drawing boot camp designed to help them understand ideas…
Photographer Hannah Price to Kick Off New Light Work and Department of Transmedia Remote Lecture Series on Oct. 13
Light Work and the Department of Transmedia in the College of Visual and Performing Arts announces the fall 2020 lineup for a new remote lecture series. The new collaboration brings together leading dynamic contemporary voices in the field of photography….
Partnership With 100 Black Men of ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Begins ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Stage’s Re-Imagined 2020-21 Season
ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Mayor Ben Walsh; Andreas G. Frank, president, Front Line Care, Hillrom Company; Senator Rachel May (D-53rd) New York State Senate; and ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Police Chief Kenton T. Buckner are the first guests in a series of eight video interviews, “100 Conversations for…
VPA Announces New Full-Time Faculty
Nine new full-time faculty members joined the College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) this fall. In addition, seven current faculty members received new full-time appointments. Christine Albright-Tufts joins VPA as a tenure-track assistant professor of acting in the Department…