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Jordan Firkey ’16 Named TracyLocke Scholarship Recipient
College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) sophomore Jordan Firkey has been named the 2014 recipient of the TracyLocke Scholarship in communications design. TracyLocke, an Omnicom global agency led by president and CEO Beth Ann Kaminkow ’89, established the TracyLocke…
SU Symphony, Concert Bands to Perform
The Syracuse University Symphony Band and Concert Band will present their final concerts of the season this week in the Rose and Jules R. Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College. Both concerts are free and open to the public. On Friday, April…
Syracuse Stage Announces 2014/15 Season
Syracuse Stage announces its 2014/15 Season, featuring recent Broadway hits, award-winning shows, celebrated playwrights and an international exchange. Kicking things off in September is the raucous comedy and 2013 Tony winner for Best Play, “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and…
VPA Celebrates Arts in April
Each spring, the College of Visual and Performing Arts bustles with activity, with exhibitions, competitions, presentations, performances and talks by visiting artists and scholars. Many of these events represent a culmination of work by graduating seniors and graduate students. Highlights…
Kari Smiraglia Wins Grand Prize in Design-a-Throw Competition
Kari Smiraglia, a senior fashion design major in the Department of Design in the College of Visual and Performing Arts, was named the grand prize winner of the 2013 Design-a-Throw competition sponsored by Monterey Mills, one of the nation’s premier suppliers…
Bold Interpretation of ‘The Glass Menagerie’ Inspired by Notes from Original Script
“The Glass Menagerie” is the play that launched Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tennessee Williams’ career and is among the masterworks of the American stage. Drawn from Williams’ life, this moving play explores the illusory nature of dreams and the fragility of…
‘The Good Woman of Setzuan’ Examines True Essence of Goodness
Can we practice goodness and create a world to sustain it? In Bertolt Brecht’s comic and complex play, this question is raised by one of his most entertaining characters, Shen Tei, the good-hearted, penniless, cross-dressing prostitute, who is forced to…
Actress Brings One-Woman Monologue to Campus March 25
Playwright and actress Anna Deavere Smith will explore issues of community, character and diversity in America, in her monologue, “Snapshots: Portraits of a World in Transition.”
Leibowitz Design Award Recipients Announced
Two communications design seniors in the College of Visual and Performing Arts’ Department of Design were recognized as recipients of the program’s Paul Leibowitz Award for Communications and Digital Design. Ali Martini ’14 was awarded the first-place prize of $1,000….
In Class: RAE 400—VPA Course Offers Insight into The Beatles
If you hear the sounds of the Beatles coming from a College of Visual and Performing Arts classroom, there’s a good chance VPA Professor of Practice David Rezak is involved. His RAE 400 course offers insight into the early days…