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Two Setnor School of Music faculty members received awards from Civic Morning Musicals (CMM), which exists to support classically trained musicians and their audiences throughout the Central New York region. Will Knuth, assistant professor of violin and viola, received the CMM 2020 Ada Shinaman Crouse Award for Excellence in Music Performance in Central New York, and Nicholas Godzak, instructor of jazz voice, received the CMM 2020 Paul and Veronica Abel Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Art of Choral Excellence.
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Whitney Phillips, assistant professor in the Department of Communication and Rhetorical Studies, was quoted in The Guardian story "Facts won't fix this: experts on how to fight America's disinformation crisis" and the NBC News story "Anti-vaccination groups target local media after social media crackdowns." She also wrote the Neiman Labs piece “Facts are an insufficient response to falsehoods.”
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At the Nexus of Art and Technology

An international collaboration that includes School of Art ceramics professor Errol Willett tests the possibility of bringing architectural ceramics to the masses.
Student News

Natalie De Vincentiis ’22 and Derrick Hsiao ’22, film majors in the Department of Transmedia, won the 42 Hour Film competition at the ASFF Film Festival in Italy. Each year, the festival selects 30 film production teams based on their film reels and gives them 42 hours to write, shoot, edit, and submit a short film of six minutes or less with a theme, piece of dialogue, and jingle decided by the festival's jury. Read More...
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James Haywood Rolling Jr., a dual professor of arts education and teaching and leadership in the School of Art and School of Education, has been appointed to the board of trustees of the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse. His term will begin in 2021. Read More...
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Ana Vîjdea G'20, an M.F.A. film candidate in the Department of Transmedia, received the Best Project Award in the experimental section of Muestra de Antropología Audiovisual de Madrid for her VR documentary “Dinners” (2019), which premiered at IDFA. The production of “Dinners” was supported in part by a Bryan Buckley Production Grant from the Department of Transmedia and a VPA Creative Opportunity Grant.
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Don Carr, professor of industrial and interaction design and the M.F.A. in design in the School of Design, gave a lecture at the 2020 International Forum of Digital Creative Design, which was held December 11– 15 in Guangzhou, China. The theme for the conference was "New Business, New Education" with a focus on the integration of industry and education. Read More...
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Department of Drama Announces New Scholarship Fund to Promote Student Diversity in Memory of Beloved Professor

The College of Visual and Performing Arts’ (VPA) Department of Drama has announced the establishment of a new scholarship fund in memory of a faculty member who dedicated himself to teaching excellence and developing successful theater artists and designers. The Felix E. Cochren, Jr. Memorial Scholarship intends to promote a more diverse student body in the drama department by providing scholarship and financial assistance to current students who are underrepresented in the program. Cochren was a beloved associate professor of theater design and technology in the department from 2002 to 2019, when he passed away at age 68. “Felix was an...
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Whitney Phillips, assistant professor in the Department of Communication and Rhetorical Studies, was quoted in the Vice (France) story “How conspiracy theories infect influencers," The Christian Science Monitor article “Post-truth politics: As Trump pushes ‘fraud,’ partisans pick their own reality” and the BBC article “The deep roots of Trump’s ‘voter fraud’ strategy.”
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Twelve VPA Undergraduates Awarded Research Funding from the SOURCE

Twelve College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) students were among the 74 Syracuse University undergraduates who received 2020-21 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) and Renée Crown University Honors Program Awards (up to $5,000). Read More...
Alumni News
Call for Entries: Industrial and Interaction Design Alumni Exhibition

Following up on the November virtual panel discussion "Action Reaction: Design responds to our changing world," the School of Design’s industrial and interaction design (IID) program has issued a call for entries for an upcoming IID alumni exhibition on campus. Read More...
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In Memoriam: William “Will” O. Headlee, Setnor School of Music

William “Will” O. Headlee, professor emeritus of organ in the College of Visual and Performing Arts’ (VPA) Rose, Jules R. and Stanford S. Setnor School of Music and Syracuse University organist emeritus, passed away on Monday, Nov. 9, in Syracuse. He was 90. Read More...
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Reid Davenport, visiting assistant teaching professor of film, received a 2021 Creative Capital Award for his documentary "I Didn't See You There." Projects that receive this award exemplify the risk-taking, adventurous artmaking Creative Capital seeks to sustain and will receive up to $50,000 in project funding, supplemented by additional career development services.
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Bio-Art Mixer: Where Art and the Sciences Meet

At Syracuse University, an interdisciplinary group of faculty have created an event called the Bio-Art Mixer, which brings together professors, graduate students and the general public to share innovative research, foster ideas for new art and research projects, and view new science-inspired art works from leading bio-artists around the world.
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Boryana Rossa, associate professor of art video in the Department of Transmedia, has received a grant from the National Culture Fund (Bulgaria) to work on an archival and exhibition project "Bulgarian Drag History" together with artist Yasen Zgurovski on the history of drag performance in Bulgaria with a focus on the 1990s. This project is featured as the seventh edition of Sofia Queer Forum, an annual international artistic, activist, and academic event in Sofia, Bulgaria. Read More...
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Syracuse Stage’s ‘Home for the Holidays’ Features Drama Students, Faculty

Syracuse Stage celebrates the joy and comfort of home this holiday season with the fully digital production “Home for the Holidays,” a heartwarming show filled with favorite songs and instrumental music, dancing and fond memories, available as video on demand starting Dec. 15. Devised and directed by Ricky Pak, the show features Department of Drama students and faculty.
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Zeke Leonard, assistant professor of environmental and interior design in the School of Design, was featured in a video by the Furniture Society for its “Noise/Makers” series about instrument makers.
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Whitney Phillips, assistant professor in the Department of Communication and Rhetorical Studies, appeared on BBC News, co-authored a piece on election memes, and was quoted in The Guardian story “'Don't fuel the fire': disinformation experts on how Biden should deal with Trump's election lies.”
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Amos Kiewe, professor in the Department of Communication and Rhetorical Studies, has authored the new book, “The Rhetoric of Antisemitism: From the Origins of Christianity and Islam to the Present” (Lexington Books). It focuses on the initial struggle Christianity experienced with Judaism, intensifying a hatred thereof, and settling on a religious dogma of eternal guilt meant to perpetuate antisemitism for eternity.
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Ira Lombardia, instructor in the Department of Transmedia, had her work featured at the Paris Photo Art Fair, the world's largest international art fair dedicated to photography. Her work was included in Elles x ParisPhoto, a curated selection by Karolina Ziebinska-Lewandoska (photography curator of Centre Pompidou ) highlighting female artists.