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The Hollywood Reporter Recognizes Film Programs for the Seventh Consecutive Year

Syracuse University is No. 18 on The Hollywood Reporter’s 2019 list of “Top 25 American Film Schools,” moving up from a previous No. 22 ranking in 2018. This is the seventh consecutive year the University’s film programs have been included on the list. Read the full story.
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VPA Office of Student Success Welcomes New Students

This week, the College of Visual and Performing Arts will welcome 556 new first-year, transfer and graduate students to campus for the 2019-20 academic year. Thanks to the college’s Office of Student Success, this often-stressful transition to campus life will be a smooth one. Throughout the year, the Office of Student Success offers all VPA students professional academic advising and career counseling, among other services. The office’s recently expanded staff includes a director, assistant director, four professional academic advisors, two career counselors and a student success coordinator. (A search for a third career counselor is currently underway.) Read More...
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Design Students Take Second Prize at Invent@SU

Hannah Erickson ’23 and James Ruhlman ’22, industrial and interaction design majors in the College of Visual and Performing Arts’ School of Design, took second prize ($3,000) at Invent@SU, the University’s six-week invention accelerator program, with a unique drawing tool that allows the user to make music and art at the same time. They call their invention “Mystic Marker.” “As you press down on the marker tip, it is spring-loaded, so that interacts with the pressure sensor inside and so the harder you press, the higher pitch the notes get,” says Erickson. “Then when you squeeze on the grip, the notes slow down, and if you are not squeezing at all, the notes are really, really fast.” Erickson and Ruhlman say special education teachers were interested in the marker’s potential as a creative tool for children with autism. Read More...
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VPA Faculty Members Exhibit New and Recent Artwork at SUArt Galleries

The Syracuse University Art Galleries is pleased to announce “Not A Metric Matters,” an exhibition featuring new and recent contemporary artwork created by 16 faculty members from the College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA). The exhibition highlights artists working in a wide variety of media including painting, photography, drawing, ceramics, video and site-specific installations. Curated by DJ Hellerman, curator of art and programs at the Everson Museum of Art, this exhibition brings together the eclectic and powerful work of design, illustration, studio arts and transmedia faculty at Syracuse University. Read More...
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A Perfect Pair of Graduate Student Summer Projects

Two College of Visual and Performing Arts graduate students working this summer in Syracuse University's Belfer Audio Archives have a surprising connection. Jenny Jian G'19 (Setnor School of Music, audio arts) and Young Yang G'19 (Department of Transmedia, art video) have been a couple for eight years and been married for six months. They went to the same high school, the same university for undergraduate study, and now are pursuing their master’s degrees at Syracuse University together. Read the full story.
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Setnor Student Leads Organ and Choral Music Workshop in Accra, Ghana

Through support from Hendricks Chapel, students and faculty from Syracuse University, the Yale Institute of Sacred Music and Brooklyn College will travel to Accra, Ghana, this August to participate in a weeklong workshop on organ and choral music alongside Ghanaian hosts. The Accra Organ and Choral Music Institute, organized by Samuel Kuffuor-Afriyie ’20, an organ performance major in the College of Visual and Performing Arts, will provide Ghanaian musicians an opportunity to network, learn and perform as a community. The institute, which runs from Aug. 11-17, is open to musicians of all experience levels who are interested in enhancing their skills in organ performance, voice and choral conducting. It will take place in Christ the King Church and Parish Hall in Accra. Read More...
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VPA startup MedUX selected for competitive Medical Device Innovation Challenge accelerator

VPA student startup MedUX was one of six teams selected for the prestigious CNY Biotech Accelerator (CNYBAC) 2019 Medical Device Innovation Challenge (MDIC), and intensive mentorship program that starts August 1, 2019. MedUX was founded by Alec Gillinder ’20 (College of Visual and Performing Arts) and Quinn King ’20 (College of Visual and Performing Arts), both industrial and interaction design majors who conceived of the idea at last summer’s Invent@SU program, and are working closely with the Blackstone LaunchPad powered by Techstars at SU Libraries to commercialize the device. They participated in the CNYBAC bootcamp program last fall. Read More...
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Setnor School Announces 2019 Gregg Smith National Choral Composition Contest

In honor and memory of the historic work of American composer/conductor Gregg Smith and the Gregg Smith Singers, the Department of Choral Studies in the College of Visual and Performing Arts’ Rose, Jules R. and Stanford S. Setnor School of Music has announced the 2019 Gregg Smith National Choral Composition Contest. This is a biennial event with the specific Setnor School of Music choral ensemble named for each contest. Read More...
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Transmedia’s Kelly Gallagher Wins Wexner Center Artist Residency Award

Kelly Gallagher, assistant professor of film in the College of Visual and Performing Arts’ Department of Transmedia, has received a 2019-20 Artist Residency Award from the Wexner Center for the Arts, the multidisciplinary contemporary art laboratory at The Ohio State University. Read More...
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Teaching Art as a Tool for Transformation

When ceramicist Sharif Bey was teaching full time and completing his doctorate at Pennsylvania State University, he didn’t have time to disappear into the studio for hours on end. So he started making pinch pots, shaping the clay into bowls in the palm of his hand. He could make them at home while watching his children and finish them in his fireplace. Eventually, musing on themes of ornamentation and status, some of the pots became beads, which he strung together into massive necklaces.
A decade later, the necklaces have been exhibited in galleries around the world and are prized by art collectors. It’s a fitting irony that Bey’s creations from the humblest of materials and simplest of processes are now lauded in the rarified art world. The subjectivity of value, and challenges to conventional definitions, are central to his work as an artist and educator. Now a professor in both the College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) and the School of Education at Syracuse University, Bey discovered pottery through community programming in his hometown of Pittsburgh. He was a dedicated ceramicist by age 15. He earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in fine art, then returned to Pittsburgh to teach at the same place his passion for ceramics was ignited. Read More...
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Stephen Zaima Exhibition at Palitz Gallery Features Work Spanning 30 Years

The Louise and Bernard Palitz Gallery at Syracuse University Lubin House presents “Stephen Zaima: Mysterious Bridge,” on view beginning June 10. This exhibition highlights work from the past 30 years by the distinguished artist, who recently retired after nearly 40 years as a professor of art and associate dean at Syracuse University’s College of Visual and Performing Arts. Curated by Eric Gleason ’05, director of the Paul Kasmin Gallery, this show presents a selection of Zaima’s large-scale paintings as well as his more recent photographic works. The Palitz Gallery is located in Syracuse University’s Lubin House at 11 E. 61st St., New York City. Exhibition hours are Monday-Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The exhibition runs through August 15 and is closed university holidays and July 4. A gallery reception, with the artist and curator in attendance, will be held on Tuesday, June 25, from 6 – 8 p.m. The exhibition and related programs are free and open to the public. Contact 212.826.0320 or for more information. Read More...
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Students Will Be Immersed in Film/Media, Acting Through UK Summer Institute Program

Two College of Visual and Performing Arts students have been named student cultural ambassadors through the US-UK Fulbright Commission’s UK Summer Institute program. They are Shelby Rodger, a rising junior majoring in film in the Department of Transmedia; and Caleb Sheedy, a rising sophomore acting major in the Department of Drama. The Fulbright UK Summer Institutes are fully funded, three- to four-week summer study programs for first- and second-year U.S. undergraduates. The program offers nine institutes, each focused on different disciplines and issues, at universities across the UK. The Summer Institutes are made possible through generous donations from private individuals and through partnership with some of the top universities in the UK. Participants are selected based on leadership skills, academic achievement, character, adaptability and ambassadorial qualities, as well as demonstrated interest in the UK and its culture. Applicants complete a written application and semifinalists are invited to interview over Skype with Fulbright selectors in the UK. Selection is highly competitive. Read More...
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New Biblio Gallery Exhibit at Bird Library: “Everyone Wears Clothes”

Syracuse University Libraries’ new Biblio Gallery Exhibit on the 4th Floor of Bird Library is running from May 30, 2019 through the end of August 2019. The exhibit titled “Everyone wears clothes” was curated by Fashion faculty Professor Jeffrey Mayer and Professor Kirsten Schoonmaker from Syracuse University’s College of Visual and Performing Arts School of Design. About the Exhibit: Everyone wears clothes. We choose them casually from our closet, browse the latest trends online, and gossip about what influencers post on Instagram. In a moment when images of the most recent runway shows are instantly available, why should we look at dresses from the 1930s or jackets from the 1970s? Drawn from the Sue Ann Genet Costume Collection, housed in the university’s Fashion Design Program in the Nancy Cantor Warehouse, this selection of photographs highlights details from these historic clothes, inviting us to look closer. In his 2015 publication Vintage Details; A Fashion Sourcebook, Professor Jeffrey Mayer worked with university photographer Stephen Sartori to document design details found within these historic garments. Read More...
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VPA’s Film Programs Included on Variety’s 2019 Best Film Schools List

Syracuse University has been listed as one of Variety’s “Best Film Schools for 2019.” Film programs in the College of Visual and Performing Arts’ (VPA) Department of Transmedia were included as part of the University’s listing, as well as programs in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. Read More...
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Blackstone LaunchPad Welcomes Graduating VPA Seniors to Founders Circle

Syracuse University Libraries’ Blackstone LaunchPad powered by Techstars welcomed 33 new Founders Circle graduating Syracuse University students at a dinner and induction ceremony held on May 3 at Bird Library. The group launched 18 ventures. Five VPA seniors were among the inductees. The Founders Circle includes graduating seniors and recent alumni who have contributed significantly to building the Blackstone LaunchPad since its opening in April 2016. Founders Circle members serve as role models for future student entrepreneurs and exemplify a passion for innovation and entrepreneurship. Read More...
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VPA Schools and Departments Announce 2018-19 Awards

The College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) is pleased to announce the names of students who have won creative and scholarly awards from their VPA schools and departments in the 2018-19 academic year. These awards are typically presented in the spring semester at the conclusion of the academic year. Read More...
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After a Challenging Start, Arden Wise ’19 Finds Her Home

Mary Beth Horsington Arden Wise ’19 has been a fan of Syracuse University sports for as long as she can remember. But when it came time to choose a college, she was determined to find a school outside of New York State, where she and her twin brother were raised. Her college counselor recommended that she visit the Syracuse campus anyway, because she thought Wise’s interests in writing, journalism and communications would be well served here. “Within five minutes of arriving on campus, I knew I was in the right spot,” Wise recalls. “I actually left my campus tour early because I was already so sure I wanted to come to Syracuse.” She applied early decision and was accepted a few months later. Read More...
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VPA Dean Michael S. Tick Named Dean Representative to Syracuse University Board of Trustees

Chancellor Kent Syverud has named Michael S. Tick, dean of the College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA), as the new dean representative to the Board of Trustees. He will serve a two-year term. Insights from the dean representative are vital to the board as it supports the University in achieving its vision and mission. Tick, who is also a professor of drama, came to Syracuse University in 2016 after serving six years as dean of the College of Fine Arts at the University of Kentucky and 11 years as the chair of the Department of Theatre at Louisiana State University. While at Louisiana State University, he was also the artistic director of Swine Palace, Louisiana’s premiere professional theater company. Tick earned an M.A. in performance studies from Northwestern University and a Ph.D. in theatre education from New York University. He began his professional career working as an actor on the long-running sitcom “M*A*S*H.” Read More...
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Department of Drama Announces a Classic Season

Classic plays and musicals that illuminate the world of today highlight the 2019/2020 Syracuse University Department of Drama season. From Shakespeare to Arthur Miller to Rodgers and Hammerstein, the season is a feast of great language, great music, big ideas and big entertainment. Subscriptions and Flex Packs are available now. The line-up for this exceptional season includes “A Chorus Line” (Oct. 4 – 13), “The Crucible” (Nov. 8 – 17), “Disney’s Beauty and the Beast” (Nov. 22 – Jan. 5), “Romeo and Juliet” (Feb. 14 – 22), “A Grand Night for Singing” (March 27 – April 5), and “On the Lake” (May 1 – 9). “I am excited by the many opportunities this season presents for us to explore the art of storytelling,” said department chair Ralph Zito. “Each of these plays is a classic example of its genre, or is directly linked to a classic. All of them invite us to explore and critique the values, themes and underlying assumptions of the eras in which they were written and the eras that they depict. Further, they demand that we share these stories in ways that speak to our current cultural condition.” Read More...
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In Memoriam: Felix E. Cochren Jr.

Felix E. Cochren Jr., associate professor of theater design and technology in the College of Visual and Performing Arts’ Department of Drama, passed away on Friday, April 26, in Syracuse. He was 68. A Syracuse native, Cochren joined the college in 2002. Beloved by his students and colleagues, he was recognized for teaching excellence with the college’s Outstanding Faculty Award in the 2007-08 academic year. Read More...

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