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  Rufus Bonds Jr., assistant professor of musical theater in the Department of Drama, is co-author of "Production Collaboration in the Theatre: Guiding Principles" (Routledge, 2021). The book reveals the ingredients of proven successful collaborations in academic and professional theater training, where respect, trust and inclusivity are encouraged and roles are defined with a clear and unified vision. It is available from Amazon and other booksellers.

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  An Animated Legacy

  Syracuse University alumnus and VPA Council member Jim Morris ’77, G’78, the genius behind "Up," "Wall-E" and other Pixar classics, credits Syracuse for catapulting his career to dizzying heights.

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  ‘Pop Life’ Podcast with CRS’s Kendall Phillips ‘Pops the Hood’ on Popular Culture

  Kendall Phillips, a professor of communication and rhetorical studies in the Department of Communication and Rhetorical Studies (CRS), is the new host of WAER's “Pop Life,” a podcast that invites expert guests to discuss significant work, events and milestones in popular culture.

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  His Time Has Come

  From the foothills of Hollywood to the footlights of Syracuse Stage, recent musical theater graduate Blake Brewer ’21 readies for his next act.

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  Communications Design Senior Combines Her Passion for Food, Design and Entrepreneurship

  Creativity has always been something that came easy for Natasha Brao, a senior from Los Angeles studying communications design in the School of Design with a minor in information technology, design and startups in the School of Information Studies. “I’ve been a dancer my whole life ever since I was three," she says. "It was my number one passion, but I also loved to be creative in the kitchen and in art as well.”

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  Theresa Chen, an instructor of applied music and performance (jazz piano) in the Setnor School of Music, has released a new album, "Whispering to God." Through her unique rendition of sacred jazz works, she hopes to share her care to the world, invite everyone to join the prayer for peace on Earth, and bring comfort and encouragement to those who are suffering. Listen and download the album.

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  James Haywood Rolling Jr., professor of arts education in the School of Art and School of Education, was interviewed for the NPR story "For kids grappling with the pandemic's traumas, art classes can be an oasis."

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  Lyndsay Michalik Gratch, assistant professor in the Department of Communication and Rhetorical Studies, co-authored the book "Digital Performance in Everyday Life" (Routledge, 2022) with Ariel Gratch. The book combines theories of performance, communication, and media to explore the many ways we perform in our everyday lives through digital media and in virtual spaces. Through a diverse range of topics and examples—including discussions of self-identity, surveillance, mourning, internet memes, storytelling, ritual, political action, and activism—it addresses how the physical and virtual have become inseparable in everyday life, and how the digital is rooted in embodied action.

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  Whitney Phillips, assistant professor in the Department of Communication and Rhetorical Studies, was quoted in the Columbia Journalism Review story “What can we do about society’s ‘information disorder’?” She was also interviewed for The New York Times article “The Timesian Urge to Explain a Meme.”

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  Film Student Wins the Gotham’s Focus Features & JetBlue Student Short Film Showcase

  Evan Bode, a second-year graduate film student in the College of Visual and Performing Arts’ (VPA) Department of Transmedia, was selected as one of five winning filmmakers of the Gotham Film & Media Institute’s third annual Focus Features & JetBlue Student Short Film Showcase, which is designed to discover and empower a diverse group of emerging filmmakers and foster multi-platform distribution of their work. Read More...

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  Future Professors Postdoctoral Program Welcomes New Fellow in Communication and Rhetorical Studies

  Syracuse University announced that Chaz Barracks, a Black queer scholar and media artist, will be a Future Professor Postdoctoral Program fellow in the College of Visual and Performing Arts' Department of Communication and Rhetorical Studies in Fall 2022. His postdoctoral project is related to engaged critical rhetoric, visual culture and public memory.

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  On a High Note

  A conversation with criminal justice reform advocate and honorary music degree recipient Kevin Richardson H'20.

• Faculty News

  Todd Herreman, associate teaching professor of music industry and technologies and co-director of the audio arts program in the Setnor School of Music, was interviewed by WSYR-TV on working in the studio with Prince for the recording of "Sign O’ the Times."

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  Three Art Photography Students Awarded Fall Research Funding from the SOURCE

  Three art photography students in the College of Visual and Performing Arts' Department of Transmedia were among the Syracuse University undergraduates who received funding from the University’s Office of Undergraduate Research and Creative Engagement (the SOURCE) in the form of SOURCE Academic Year Grants (up to $5,000). Read More...

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  VPA Remembers Hope Irvine, Professor Emerita of Art Education

  The College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) is remembering Hope Irvine, professor emerita of art education in VPA’s School of Art and Syracuse University's School of Education, who died on Oct. 28 in East Syracuse, New York, at age 84. Read More...

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  Jennifer DeLucia, assistant professor and chair of the Department of Creative Arts Therapy, was elected to the American Art Therapy Association's Board of Directors. Rochele Royster, assistant professor of art therapy, also serves on the board.

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  Industrial and Interaction Design Student’s Inclusive Design Project Focuses on Creating a FoodAI System

  As part of her DES 400 Inclusive Design class with Professor Don Carr, Xinyi Wang '24, an industrial and interaction design major in the School of Design, is working with a student with disabilities on a program that allows him to make his lunches on his own.

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  Wendy K. Moy, assistant professor of music education in the Setnor School of Music and School of Education, wrote the chapter "Come Together: An Ethnography of the Seattle Men’s Chorus family" for "Together in Music: Coordination, expression, participation" (Oxford University Press, 2021). "Together in Music" examines ensemble performance in music, looking at the organizational, psychological, and social processes at play during group practice and performance. Moy's chapter is an ethnographic study of the Seattle Men’s Chorus, the largest community chorus in North America and the largest gay men’s chorus in the world.

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  Syracuse Stage, Department of Drama Celebrate the Holidays with ‘Matilda the Musical’

  Syracuse Stage celebrates the holidays with the multi-award musical treat "Matilda The Musical" Nov. 19 – Jan. 2. The production is co-produced with the Department of Drama. Read More...

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  Two members of the School of Design's industrial and interaction design (IID) program were recently elected to the 2022-23 Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) Education Council: Louise Manfredi, an assistant professor of IID who will represent the Northeast District, and IID alumnus James Rudolph '06, who will represent the Midwest District. Rudolph is an assistant professor of industrial design at the University of Notre Dame. Manfredi was also named a fellow of the RSA, the royal society for arts, manufactures, and commerce. The fellowship is an inclusive values-based community committed to finding better ways of thinking about...