Arts & Culture
The Bio-Art Mixer: Where Art and the Sciences Meet
In bio-art, artists and scientists use living tissues, bacteria and organisms to produce intriguing creations. These works are often intended to inspire conversations and action related to the environment, ecology and the effects of human interaction on nature. At Syracuse…
David Prince, Curator of the Art Museum, to Retire in January
The Syracuse University Art Museum of Art announced that David Prince, the museum’s curator, will retire on Jan. 4. During his 34 years of service to the museum and the University, Prince introduced thousands of students, faculty, staff and community…
Syracuse University Brass Ensemble to Present Holiday Fare on Facebook Live
The Syracuse University Brass Ensemble (SUBE), directed by James T. Spencer, is ringing in the holidays with three Saturday concerts on Facebook Live. Free and open to the public, the online shows are Nov. 21, Dec. 12 and Dec. 19…
Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics Professor Awarded for Outstanding Research of a Medieval Monastic Text
Few things in life excite Matthieu Herman van der Meer more than digging into a 1,000-year-old handwritten anonymous text. “I have always had a fascination for medieval manuscripts,” says van der Meer, assistant teaching professor of classics in the College…
Professor Pens Book on How Literary Classics Help Create the New Media They ‘Live’ In
The modern-day popularity of 18th-century authors like Jane Austen, William Blake and Walter Scott have resulted in historic literary texts making their way into contemporary media forms like film, panoramic paintings, fanfiction and even 3D photographs. In Romantic Capabilities: Blake, Scott,…
Architecture Students Win International Design Workshop Grand Prize
A team of fifth-year School of Architecture students have won the grand prize at this year’s Busan International Architectural Design Workshop (BIADW)—an intensive academic program intended to encourage rigorous research and ideas creation of architecture major students from around the…
Syracuse Stage Mainstage Season Opens with Pulitzer Prize-winning ‘Talley’s Folly’
Love can overcome our differences and the future is brighter than the present. In such a spirit, Syracuse Stage begins the 2020/2021 mainstage season of six fully staged and filmed productions that will be available to patrons online in video…
A&S Welcomes Distinguished Visiting Poet Nicole Sealey
The College of Arts and Sciences (A&S) welcomes renowned poet Nicole Sealey as the 2020-21 Distinguished Visiting Poet in the Department of English’s M.F.A. program in creative writing. This fall Sealey is teaching a graduate-level poetry forms class where students…
Light Work Presents ‘Alinka Echeverría: Heroine’ on View Through Dec. 10
Light Work presents “Heroine,” a solo exhibition of work by Mexican-British multimedia artist and visual anthropologist Alinka Echeverría. Echeverría’s exhibition will be on view in the Kathleen O. Ellis Gallery at Light Work through Dec. 10. Copies of Echeverría’s exhibition…
School of Architecture Student Organization Wins Top Award
The Syracuse Orange Chapter of the National Organization of Minority Architecture Students (NOMAS) was recently recognized with the Chapter of the Year award at the 48th Annual National Organization of Minority Architects Conference, held virtually Oct.14-18. The 26 Syracuse NOMAS…