Arts & Culture
5 Students Receive Prestigious Critical Language Scholarship
Five Syracuse University students have been selected as recipients of the Critical Language Scholarship (CLS), through which they will immerse themselves in intensive language study this summer. The recipients and the languages they will study are: Christian Bevilacqua ’24, a…
LaCasita Hosting Youth Arts Education Program Showcase April 19
Exhibits of comic book and film art, along with dance, music and song performances, will highlight the talents and creativity of young artists at this year’s Young Art/Arte Joven showcase at La Casita Cultural Center. The work of nearly 40…
Graduate Music Students Receive Grant to Compose, Perform New Work for Organ
A composer-organist pair of graduate students in the College of Visual and Performing Arts’ Rose, Jules R. and Stanford S. Setnor School of Music received a $1,000 grant from the American Guild of Organists (AGO) to compose and perform a…
Other Ways of Seeing: Understanding Ecology and Climate Through Art
Helping students of all ages understand and respond to the implications of the climate crisis, and to think ecologically, is complicated and requires an innovative and collaborative approach. That’s why Mike Goode, professor of English in the College of Arts and…
Former U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera to Kick Off ‘Cruel April’ Poetry Series
As a “natural wonderer, dreamer, traveler… mega listener…and only child,” poet Juan Felipe Herrera grew up in California’s San Joaquín and Salinas Valleys “listening to everything and everyone,” he says, and those habits led him “to the magical lands of…
‘Touch(ed)’ Continues Department of Drama’s 2023-24 Season
The Syracuse University Department of Drama continues the 2023-24 season with “Touch(ed)”, a darkly comic drama about sisterhood, mental health and the realistic limits of love from Tony Award-nominated playwright Bess Wohl (“Grand Horizons”). Directed by Christine Albright-Tufts, performances of…
Artist in Residence Carrie Mae Weems to Work With Students, Participate in International Arts Conference in Italy
Eight College of Visual and Performing Arts students who are studying abroad at the Daniel and Gayle D’Aniello Syracuse University Program in Florence will have the unique opportunity to work with Artist in Residence Carrie Mae Weems H’17 and attend…
College of Visual and Performing Arts Presents ‘Unsettled, Unbridled, Unbound,’ the 2024 M.F.A. Exhibition
The College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) is pleased to announce the exhibition “Unsettled, Unbridled, Unbound,” featuring the work of 38 artists completing their master of fine arts degree in studio arts, illustration and film and media arts. Sequential…
Syracuse University Art Museum Hosts Mini-Residency With Artist Josh T Franco
The Syracuse University Art Museum will host artist and art historian Josh T Franco in residence at the museum and on the Syracuse University campus to activate “Scriptorium con Safos: Syracuse,” and to engage with the community. The mini-residency is…
Resurrecting Song: Professor Wendy Moy’s New Book Documents Choral Music’s Resilience During COVID-19
In her new book, Wendy Moy, professor of music education in the College of Visual and Performing Arts and School of Education, brings together first-person accounts to offer a sometimes heartbreaking, many times joyful portrait of how choral musicians weathered…