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VPA Announces Fall 2019 Dean’s List

The following undergraduate students enrolled in the College of Visual and Performing Arts were among those named to the Dean’s List for the Fall 2019 semester. To qualify for the Dean’s List, students must complete a minimum of 15 credit hours and earn at least a 3.6 grade point average (on a 4.0 scale) during the semester. Read More...
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Department of Drama Presents Shakespeare’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’

The Department of Drama is beginning the spring semester with William Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet.” Directed by faculty member Thom Miller, this production brings a fresh take to Shakespeare’s timeless classic about a pair of star-crossed lovers. “Romeo and Juliet” previews on Feb. 14 and opens on Feb. 15 in the Archbold Theatre at the Syracuse Stage/SU Drama Complex, 820 E. Genesee St. Read the full story. Buy tickets
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Setnor School of Music Announces Winner of 2019 Gregg Smith National Choral Competition Contest

Jonathan Reid, a Texas-based composer, music educator and pianist, has been announced as winner of the 2019 Gregg Smith National Choral Competition Contest in the Rose, Jules R. and Stanford S. Setnor School of Music in Syracuse University’s College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA). The award, which is named for renowned composer and choral conductor Gregg Smith, is given biennially to a composer between the ages of 21 and 35 who has written and submitted a musical composition for a Setnor School choral ensemble. Reid won for his work “Crossing the Bar,” which was selected by a committee of Setnor faculty from numerous compelling entries. Reid’s work will be premiered by Setnor Sonority, the Setnor School’s gender-inclusive tenor-bass ensemble comprised of students from varied majors and schools/colleges. The premiere will be part of Setnor Sonority’s performance at 8 p.m. on Tuesday, April 21, in the Rose and Jules R. Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College. Reid will come to the University for the premiere and rehearse with the choir the day prior to the performance. “Crossing the Bar” has also been recently selected for publication by Carl Fischer Music. Setnor Sonority’s recording of that evening’s performance will be used by the publisher to help promote the piece. “Setnor Sonority is thrilled to have the opportunity to do a second world premiere in our inaugural season,” says José “Peppie” Calvar, who conducts the ensemble. “We hope to carry on Meastro Smith’s legacy by being ambassadors for new choral music much like he was.” Read More...
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Design Student Startup Team MedUX Heads to EO GSEA US National Competition in Silicon Valley

Quinn King ’20 and Alec Gillinder ’20 (both VPA School of Design), co-founders of MedUX, heading to the EO GSEA US National Competition in the Silicon Valley on February 8 – 13. King will be pitching as one of 33 students representing teams from state and regional US GSEA competitions to vie for the chance to represent the United States at the 2020 EO GSEA Global Finals in Cape Town, South Africa. The national event will be held on the Startup Grind Stage, where top student startups from across the United States will share their stories, pitch their businesses, connect...
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VPA Students, Faculty Participate in Inclusive Music Education Pilot Program

A Syracuse University music instructor is spearheading a new pilot program that introduces homeschoolers to the art of creative expression. Alina Plourde, who teaches oboe in the Setnor School of Music in the College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA), directs the Syracuse branch of the worldwide Music for People (MfP) organization. Read the full story
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Marylyn Turner ’56, G’57 and Chuck Klaus G’05 Give $15 Million to Support Art Scholarships, Immersion Experiences in School of Art

A $15 million gift from Marylyn Turner ’56, G’57 and her husband, Chuck Klaus G’05, will support the education of emerging artists in the College of Visual and Performing Arts’ (VPA) School of Art through scholarships and immersion experiences in the Los Angeles area. Read the full story.
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Syracuse University Libraries Hosts New Biblio Gallery Exhibition: ‘Isle of Brendan’

The exhibition is a cartography piece created by art student Eric M. Warren, a fourth-year VPA student. Find it on the 4th floor of Bird Library through mid-March. Read the full story
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Sam Van Aken, associate professor of studio arts in the School of Art, had “Tree of 40 Fruit” included in the exhibition “Partnering with Nature” at the World Economic Forum’s 50th Annual in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland. Drawing from the “Nature—Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial” exhibition originally organized by Cooper Hewitt and Cube design museum, this adaptation is a collaboration between the Smithsonian and the World Economic Forum. Van Aken also gave a talk as part of the exhibition.
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Trumpet Ensemble Selected as Quarterfinalist in National Competition

The Syracuse University Trumpet Ensemble, based in the College of Visual and Performing Arts’ Rose, Jules R. and Stanford S. Setnor School of Music, has been named a quarterfinalist in the large ensemble division of the National Trumpet Competition, which will be held March 19-21 at Messiah College in Mechanicsburg, Penn. This is the first time the ensemble has been selected as a quarterfinalist. The nine-member ensemble performs under the direction of John Raschella, instructor of trumpet in the Setnor School. It will perform “Contours,” a piece written for the ensemble by composer and Setnor alumnus Sean O’Loughlin ’95, on...
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Light Work Presents 2020 Transmedia Photography Annual

Light Work announced the 2020 Transmedia Photography Annual exhibition of photographs by seniors from the art photography program in the Department of Transmedia in the College of Visual and Performing Arts. The exhibition runs through Saturday, March 7, at Light Work, with a reception with the exhibiting artists to be held on Thursday, Jan. 30, from 5-7 p.m. Read the full story
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Kelly Gallagher, assistant professor of film in the Department of Transmedia, had her short animated film “How to Bake an Apple Pie” screened at International Film Festival Rotterdam. In March she will run the Spring Break Makers & Creators Film Camp for girls, trans, and gender non-binary youth in Iowa City, Iowa.
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Alec Gillinder ’20 and Quinn King ’20 pitch at Medical Device Innovation Challenge

Alec Gillinder and Quinn King, both fifth-year students in VPA’s School of Design, were among six startups from across New York State to be featured in the Medical Device Innovation Challenge at the NYS Empire State Development-funded CNY Biotech Aceclerator Medical Device Challenge (MDIC) on January 10. Read full story
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Syracuse Stage Presents the Critically Acclaimed Play ‘The Wolves’

The Syracuse Stage season continues with the critically acclaimed “The Wolves,” Sarah DeLappe’s Pulitzer Prize-nominated drama about nine young women soccer players. Co-produced with the Department of Drama in the College of Visual and Performing Arts and directed by Melissa Rain Anderson, “The Wolves” runs Jan. 22–Feb. 16 in the Storch Theatre at the Syracuse Stage/SU Drama Complex, 820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse. Read the full story. Buy Tickets
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Kendall Phillips, professor in the Department of Communication and Rhetorical Studies, was interviewed for the Morning Consult story “Biden Fans Love ‘Fast & Furious’; Fans of Warren and Sanders Prefer ‘Joker.’” He was interviewed about the Oscars for WAER’s Pop Life podcast that is carried by several NPR stations.
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Designing for the United Nations

It was a coincidence that resulted not only in a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) design students, but a first for the college’s School of Design itself. Rebecca Kelly, assistant professor of communications design, was looking for ways to engage her students in a real-life design project, with emphasis on the need for future designers to think and work globally. At the same time, the United Nations was seeking assistance in designing its presence for Expo 2020 Dubai, highlighting the organization’s 75 years of existence. By pure happenstance, Kelly saw the U.N.’s general call to universities for help designing the exhibition “Connecting Minds, Creating the Future.” She responded, offering all of the design majors as collaborators with the international organization, and was accepted. Read More...
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Finding the Beat, Finding the Story: Researching Music Education

Where is hip-hop in school music education, asks David Knapp? Music education should stress the vernacular—that is, reflect the music language of students—says Knapp, assistant professor of music education in the School of Education and the Setnor School of Music in the College of Visual and Performing Arts, who uses hip-hop, rock and steel drums in his efforts to reach more students. Read the full story
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Capturing Beauty and Tragedy on Jeju Island

A summer SOURCE grant allows art photography major Charlotte Howard to explore the secrets of a South Korean paradise.

Charlotte Howard ’20 dreamed of visiting South Korea for years before she actually traveled there last summer. The art photography major in the College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) secured an internship in Seoul and spent almost a year planning her trip. “I made a connection with Izzy Schreiber, a fashion photographer working in Seoul, and he took me on as an intern for the summer,” Howard says. “South Korea is rich in popular culture, and
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Danita Emma, instructor in the Department of Drama and a ballet master teacher, recently returned to Syracuse following a U.S. Fulbright Program residency. As a Fulbright Dance Specialist, Emma spent six weeks in Montenegro sharing her American pedagogical expertise of classical ballet and empowering young dancers to expand their artistic capacity. Read More...
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Whitney Phillips, assistant professor in the Department of Communication and Rhetorical Studies, was quoted in The Washington Post story “The 24 most important viral reactions on the Internet in the past 20 years,” the Wired story “I nternet Deception Is Here to Stay—So What Do We Do Now?” and the Medium story “Gender Criticals Are Purposeless Fearmongers.”
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Sarah McCoubrey, professor of studio arts in the School of Art, is exhibiting paintings in “Contemporary Landscapes” through January 5, 2020, at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia.

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