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Sammy Lopez (BFA ’13)
Lopez was featured in an American Theatre article for being one of eight Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) producers who are launching the new company The Industry Standard Group (TISG), the first completely BIPOC commercial theater investment and producing organization in the country.
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William H. Harris (BM ’65, MM ’78)
Harris recently became president of Local 78, the American Federation of Musicians (“The Professional Musicians of Central New York”), and celebrated 50 years of serving on the faculty of VPA’s Setnor School of Music.
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Karen Kuracina Harris (BFA ’65)
Harris had work included in the following juried shows: the Philadelphia Water Color Society’s “120th Anniversary International Exhibition of Works on Paper;” “Essential Art: the 29th Annual Regional Juried Art Show” at the Cooperstown (N.Y.) Art Association Galleries; the “2020 CNY Watercolor Society Online Juried Members Only Show” (winner, Artistic Merit Award); and the Onondaga Art Guild show.
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Jane Dubin (BS ’57)
Dubin is a producer of the film “Radium Girls,” which is now streaming. The Broadway musical “The Prom,” for which she serves as a producer, is coming to Netflix on December 11 as a new movie.
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Widline Cadet (MFA ’20)
Cadet is one of four artists who have been named 2020-21 artists-in-residence at The Studio Museum in Harlem. The artist-in-residence program advances the work of visual artists of African and Latino descent and has supported more than 100 graduates who have gone on to highly regarded careers.
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Jordyn White (BS ’17)
White has worked at the National Football League (NFL) as a public affairs coordinator (public relations for off-field/social responsibility) for the past year and a half.
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Dani Pendergast (BFA ’17, MFA ’20)
Pendergast is the featured artist in Communication Arts, one of the industry’s premiere publications.
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Carlton Daniel (MFA ’17)
Last summer, Daniel wrote and directed a short film in Syracuse titled Homegoing. The film stars Malik Shakur (nephew of the late Tupac Shakur) and Khalil Kain (Juice). Homegoing touches upon themes of racialized policing, gun violence, the racial wealth gap, and toxic masculinity. The film has screened at Outfest Fusion, Palm Springs, and the Atlanta Film Festival. Earlier this month, Light Work’s Urban Video Project screened the film in Syracuse at the Everson Museum Plaza. Learn more and view the trailer.
November 2020
September 2020