The College of Visual and Performing Arts aspires to be a community that values and supports the research and creative work of its students and faculty and celebrates the diversity of inquiries, disciplines, and practice-informed work.
Faculty Research Spotlight
Mišo Suchý, associate professor of film in the Department of Film and Media Arts, along with Guggenheim Fellow, artist, and community college art media instructor Lida Suchý, and award-winning filmmaker, animator, editor, and sound composer Evan Bode G’23, were selected as one of the seven 2024-25 Engaged Humanities Networks (EHN) Cohorts. Their collaborative project, “Teens with a Movie Camera,” is a filmmaking initiative between City of Syracuse teens and local media artists. Supported by a $5,000 grant from the EHN and the Academic Affairs Office of Strategic Initiatives, the collaboration will focus on personal visual storytelling, culminating in the creation of original short films and their public presentation in the communities where they were made.
Faculty Creative Scholarship Spotlight
Ann Clarke, retired associate professor of studio arts in the School of Art and dean emerita of VPA, will show work in the solo exhibition “Ann Clarke: Interior Landscapes” at Burchfield Penney Art Center in Buffalo, New York. The exhibition, which runs September 13 to March 2, 2025, is made possible in part with the support of a $10,000 New York State Council on the Arts Individual Artist grant.
Student Research and Creative Scholarship Spotlight
Edward Lu ’26, a composition major in the Setnor School of Music, attended the Connecticut Summerfest and the Imani Winds Chamber Music Festival at the Juilliard School as a part of its Emerging Composers Program. He is among the more than 250 Syracuse University students who actively participated in research this past summer through initiatives of the Syracuse Office of Undergraduate Research and Creative Engagement (SOURCE) and other programs. Read more about Edward’s summer research.