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  Warehouse Display Honors Design Alumnus for Innovative Headwear, Protective Sports Equipment

  Witnessing a helmet-to-helmet collision sparked an idea for School of Design alumnus Bert Straus ’59, setting off a series of evolutions in headwear and protective sports equipment.  Read More...

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  CRS Professor Wins Distinguished Service Award from the Rhetoric Society of America

  Kendall Phillips, professor in the College of Visual and Performing Arts’ Department of Communication and Rhetorical Studies (CRS) and interim director of Syracuse University’s Lender Center for Social Justice, has been selected as the recipient of the 2024 George E. Yoos Distinguished Service Award from the Rhetoric Society of America (RSA).  Read More...

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  VPA Film Program, Faculty, Students Acknowledged for Success of Assessment

  The College of Visual and Performing Arts’ film program and Assessment Leadership Institute participants were recently recognized by the Academic Affairs and Institutional Effectiveness (IE).   Read More...

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  Vocalist Marianne Solivan, assistant professor in the Setnor School of Music, joined forces with Mighty Quinn Records for her fifth release, Re-Entry. The album, which has a June 2024 release date, features Leandro Pellegrino, Steve Wood, Jay Sawyer, and Alex Terrier. The single, "Tal Vez," is out now.

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  VPA Alumna Among Finalists of the 2024 New York Business Plan Competition

  Natasha Brao ’22, (College of Visual and Performing Arts) G’23, G’24 (Whitman School of Management), founder of Shooka Sauce, won the 3^rd place in the food and agriculture track of the New York Business Plan Competition (NYBPC), powered by Upstate Capital, held in Albany on April 25.

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  7 Student Teams Win Prizes to Advance Their Intelligence++ Disability, Inclusion Innovations

  Seven student-designed products, services and technologies meant to assist people with intellectual and developmental disabilities won recognition and seed funding at the Intelligence++ Showcase on April 25.

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  Two VPA Students Receive Awards Through Fulbright U.S. Student Program

  Two College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) students are among the 14 Syracuse University students and alumni who have been named as 2024 recipients of awards through the Fulbright U.S. Student Program. Read More...

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  Four VPA Students Named 2024-25 Remembrance Scholars

  Four College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) students are among the 35 students who have been chosen as the 2024-25 Syracuse University Remembrance Scholars. Read More...

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  College of Visual and Performing Arts Celebrates Inaugural Career Ambassadors

  Seven students stepped into the role of career ambassadors for the College of Visual and Performing Arts’ (VPA) Office of Academic and Career Advising program’s inaugural year.   Read More...

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  First Art Therapy Class to Graduate on Commencement Weekend

  The inaugural class of the Department of Creative Arts Therapy will graduate this year on Syracuse University's Commencement Weekend (May 9-12), with six students earning their master of science degree in art therapy.  Read More...

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  Venice Bienniale, Artist in Residence Session Provide VPA Students With Unique Global Experiences

  College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) students who spent this semester studying abroad through the Daniel and Gayle D’Aniello Syracuse University Program in Florence enjoyed unique experiential learning opportunities, including a teaching session with an internationally known artist and attendance at an international artistic and cultural celebration.

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  Carnegie Hall Chief Marketing Officer Sara Villagio ’04 to Deliver 2024 VPA Convocation Address

  Sara Villagio ’04, Carnegie Hall’s chief marketing officer, will deliver the 2024 convocation address to bachelor’s and master’s degree candidates of Syracuse University’s College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) at the college’s convocation ceremony on Saturday, May 11, at 7:30 p.m. in the JMA Wireless Dome (livestream available). Read More...

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  Intangible Cultural Heritage Showcase Celebrates Cultural Diversity

  Museum studies students will host a series of events highlighting elements of intangible cultural heritage at the Sue and Leon Genet Gallery at the Nancy Cantor Warehouse.   Students in the master of arts degree program in museum studies taking Museums and Intangible Cultural Heritage (MUS 400/600) explored aspects of their own lives and brought them into the gallery space. The project provided students with the chance to engage in a reflective exercise on how to display and musealize the intangible.   “It is so exciting to be...

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  ‘The Droll (Or, a Stage-Play about the END of Theatre)’ Closes Out Department of Drama’s 2023-24 Season

  The Department of Drama in Syracuse University’s College of Visual and Performing Arts concludes the 2023-24 season with “The Droll (Or, a Stage-Play about the END of Theatre)," by Meg Miroshnik. Read More...

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  Applications Open for 2024 Intelligence++ Innovation Showcase of Inclusive Design

  Applications are now open for the Intelligence++ Innovation Showcase, which takes place on Thursday, April 25, from 9 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. in the first floor auditorium of the Nancy Cantor Warehouse, 350 West Fayette St., Syracuse. The event will highlight undergraduate and graduate student teams from across campus who have created concepts for products, services and technologies that can assist intellectually disabled people and their families.

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  Graduate Music Students Receive Grant to Compose, Perform New Work for Organ

  A composer-organist pair of graduate students in the College of Visual and Performing Arts’ Rose, Jules R. and Stanford S. School of Music received a $1,000 grant from the American Guild of Organists (AGO) to compose and perform a new piece for organ. Composer Ryan McQuay Meredith and organist Joseph Maxwell Ossei-Little were among four pairs selected for the grant from the AGO’s Student Commissioning Project this year. The students used the opportunity to explore the vast capabilities of the organ, pushing its limits. Read More...

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  Digging Into Nature

  Students and professors turn to art, architecture, and storytelling to better understand the environment.

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  ‘Touch(ed)’ Continues Department of Drama’s 2023-24 Season

  The Department of Drama in the College of Visual and Performing Arts continues the 2023-24 season with “Touch(ed)”, a darkly comic drama about sisterhood, mental health and the realistic limits of love from Tony Award-nominated playwright Bess Wohl (“Grand Horizons”). Directed by Christine Albright-Tufts, performances of “Touch(ed)” will be held April 5-14 in the Loft Theatre at the Syracuse Stage/SU Drama Complex, located at 820 East Genesee St. Tickets are available through the Syracuse Stage Box Office or by calling 315.443.3275.

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  College of Visual and Performing Arts Presents ‘Unsettled, Unbridled, Unbound,’ the 2024 M.F.A. Exhibition

  The College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) at Syracuse University is pleased to announce the exhibition "Unsettled, Unbridled, Unbound," featuring the work of 38 artists completing their master of fine arts degree in studio arts, illustration and film and media arts. Read More...

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  Resurrecting Song: Professor Wendy Moy’s New Book Documents Choral Music’s Resilience During COVID-19

  In her new book, Wendy Moy, professor of music education in the College of Visual and Performing Arts and School of Education, brings together first-person accounts to offer a sometimes heartbreaking, many times joyful portrait of how choral musicians weathered the coronavirus pandemic.