News
-
![The Taste of Chili Sauce movie poster]()
Student News
Yushan Liu, a graduate film student in the Department of Film and Media Arts, won the Silver Award for Best Romantic Film and the Silver Award for Best Student Director at the Independent Short Awards. This prestigious international short film festival features red carpet screenings and Q&A sessions throughout the year, culminating in an annual awards event at Regal Cinemas LA Live in Los Angeles.
Read More... -
![Sam Van Aken]()
Faculty News
Sam Van Aken, associate professor of studio arts in the School of Art, will participate in the Chicago Architecture Biennial: CAB 5 “This is a Rehearsal” as part of a collaborative team that is presenting “Making a Garden of Strange Fruit.”
-
![Anne Laver]()
Faculty News
Anne Laver, associate professor of applied music and performance (organ) in the Setnor School of Music, was invited to participate as a featured performer, teacher, and presenter at the Göteborg International Organ Academy and Festival in Göteborg, Sweden, the largest annual organ festival in Northern Europe. Her concert included the European premiere of "Three Meditations for Organ" by Setnor colleague Natalie Draper. Watch a video of the concert (Laver's performance begins at 1:05).
-
![Jen Delucia]()
Faculty News
Jennifer DeLucia, assistant professor and chair of the Department of Creative Arts Therapy, co-authored “Civilian participants' responses to veteran artwork: Exploring empathy and understanding” in the International Journal of Art Therapy. Co-authors include School of Design/museum studies alumna Emma Rathe G’21, current art therapy graduate student Celena Moulton G’25, and Jordan S. Potash of the George Washington University.
-
![Nick Piato sits at the front of a classroom with a screen projection over his head that shows images of students]()
Faculty News
Chaz Barracks, a Future Professors Fellow in the Department of Communication and Rhetorical Studies, and Nick Piato, an instructor of music education in the Setnor School of Music and School of Education, co-presented on The SENSES Project at the Imagining America National Gathering in Providence, Rhode Island.
Read More... -
![A picture of a young girl running away from the camera toward an abstract background]()
Faculty News
Kelly Gallagher, associate professor of film in the Department of Film and Media Arts, won a $5,000 Moving Image Fund pre-production grant from LEF Foundation for her forthcoming feature “By All Your Memories.” The LEF Foundation awarded 14 Moving Image Fund grants totaling $52,500 in support of feature-length documentary works by New England-based filmmakers; Gallagher’s film is produced by the New England-based producer Mary Jirmanus Saba.
Read More... -
![Guinevere Turner]()
Faculty News
Guinevere Turner, visiting assistant professor of film in the Department of Film and Media Arts, received the Queer Luminary Award at the Seattle Queer Film Festival. The award ceremony took place before the screening of the Sapphic Centerpiece Film "Healed," in which she co-stars. Turner is a writer, director, and actor who has been working in film and TV since her 1994 debut film "Go Fish," which she wrote, produced, and starred in. She can be seen in film roles that include "The Watermelon Woman," "Chasing Amy," "American Psycho," and "The L Word."
-
![A film poster for Out of Frame with the text Winner Best Animation New Jersey Film Festival Fall 2023.]()
Alumni News
Evan Bode G’23, a graduate of the M.F.A. film program in the Department of Film and Media Arts and an instructor in the department, had their thesis film “Out of Frame” win Best Animation at the 42nd New Jersey Film Festival (NJFF), along with three Director’s Citations for outstanding achievement in directing, music, and production design from festival director Al Nigrin. The film—which was their M.F.A. thesis created in the film program—was written, directed, edited, and animated by Bode, who also composed the score. Read More...
-
![Emily Stokes-Rees]()
Faculty News
Emily Stokes-Rees, associate professor of museum studies, director of the School of Design, and the Iris Magidson Endowed Professor of Design Leadership, published the article "Antidote to anarchy: the Matilda Joslyn Gage House as a site of social justice dialogue" in Museums and Social Issues.
-
Alumni News
Gerry McNamara ’06, an alumnus of the Department of Communication and Rhetorical Studies (CRS) and associate head coach of Syracuse University men’s basketball, was featured in the Syracuse.com article “Gerry McNamara at 40: Syracuse basketball icon built a life here. What would lead him to leave?” (subscription required). According to the article, “People close to him say the same characteristics that defined McNamara as a player – intensity, consistency, work ethic and innate understanding of the game – make him a great coach.” Head coach and CRS alumnus Adrian Autry ’94 calls McNamara “'an excellent communicator.’”
-
![Kiiran Carper]()
Faculty News
Kiira Schmidt Carper, assistant professor of musical theater in the Department of Drama, was a guest performer in the multi-disciplinary performance event Linzer Klanwolke ("Odyssey: A Journey Through Worlds") in Linz, Austria, which was part of the internationally celebrated music festival, Brucknerfest. She recently recreated the original “West Side Story” choreography by Jerome Robbins for the opera company Teatro Lirico di Cagliari in Sardinia, Italy, bringing fellow drama faculty member Felipe Panamá as her dance captain.
-
![Sam Van Aken portrait.]()
Faculty News
Sam Van Aken, associate professor studio arts in the School of Art, and his artwork "The Open Orchard" on Governors Island, New York, was featured in the recent New York Times article about land art. His installation “Tree of 40 Fruit: The Boulder Trees,” part of the exhibition “agriCULTURE: Art Inspired by the Land” in Boulder, Colorado, was featured in The Art Newspaper.
-
![James Abbott]()
Faculty News
James Abbott, professor of practice of sound recording technology in the Setnor School of Music, was quoted in the Lifewire story “Why Not Everyone Thinks AI-Generated Music Is Grammy Worthy.”
-
![Heath Hanlin portrait.]()
Faculty News
Heath Hanlin, associate professor of computer art and animation in the Department of Film and Media Arts, was quoted in the Lifewire article “Why a New Court Ruling Against AI Is a Victory for Human Artists.”
-
![Emily Nolan]()
Faculty News
Emily Goldstein Nolan, professor of practice of art therapy in the Department of Creative Arts Therapy, authored the new book "Community Art Therapy: Theory and Practice" (Routledge). The book provides a narrative exploration of community art therapy woven from its rich practice, theory, the multiple was that it can be applied in practice and through practitioner reflections.
-
![Wendy Moy]()
Faculty News
Wendy Moy, assistant professor of music education in the Setnor School of Music and School of Education, co-authored "Singing Success Representing Primarily Undergraduate Institutions" in Choral Journal. This interview article explores the factors for success in primarily undergraduate institutions that have a rich history of choral singing and provides advice for conductors leading similar programs. Five conductors, from early career to late career, speak about the spectrum of successes and challenges in their collegiate choral organizations.
-
![Lynn Greenky]()
Faculty News
Lynn Greenky, professor emerita in the Department of Communication and Rhetorical Studies, had her piece "Judicial orders restricting Trump's speech seek to balance his own constitutional rights" published on Yahoo! News.
-
![Poster for Nightfall: A Short Film by Tevvon Hines]()
Student News
Tevvon Hines, a graduate film student in the Department of Film and Media Arts, had his short film “Nightfall” selected for the 2023 Pulling Focus African American Film Festival of the Quad Cities (Iowa) and the 2023 Reel East Texas Film Festival, where it will screen on November 11.
-
![Keven Rudrow]()
Faculty News
Keven James Rudrow, assistant professor in the Department of Communication and Rhetorical Studies, had his essay "Quare Vernacular Discourse: Vulnerability, Mentorship, and Coming Out on YouTube" published in Critical Studies in Media Communication, a ranked journal of the National Communication Association. Read More...
-
![Kathryn Ferentchak]()
Alumni News
Kathryn Ferentchak '17, a film alumnus of the Department of Film and Media Arts, was recently named 2023 Filmmaker of the Year/Visual Effects by Pro Moviemaker Magazine for artist JWalks’ music video “White Wine.” Ferentchak served as director and producer of the video, and Theo Dudley was writer and creative director. The video was the first shoot at Cinepacks’ brand-new LED virtual production studio in Hollywood, combining mixed media, aerial dancing and in-camera visual effects. Read More...
