Art projects listed under EVENTS + EXHIBITIONS are funded in part with a grant from the Cornell Council for the Arts.

The CCA awards grants to Cornell Faculty, Departments, Programs, Student Organizations, and Student Artists to support creative art projects that engage any singular art form or any mixture of art forms, and may be exhibited, presented, or performed in on-campus as well as off-campus venues.

Spring 2013  (Check back frequently, as events are continually being added.)

Feb 13

A collboration between the Momenta Quartet and the Cornell Contemporary Chamber Players. 

Feb 18
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Feb 24

Sound artist and musician Ellen Fullman will be in residency at Cornell this February.

Feb 19

One of the scariest and most influential horror films of all time, with live musical accompaniment on the Sage Chapel organ by Dr. Philip Carli.

Feb 21

A recital of songs and poetry by graduate composer Michael Small and recent M.F.A. graduate poet Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers.

Feb 25
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Mar 01

Raja’a Khalid, (MFA ’13), will present "The Persepolis Project", a sculptural exhibition based on the Persepolis celebrations of 1971.

Mar 01

The Cornell Wind Ensemble, Cornell Chorus, and soloist Susan Botti will be performing Cosmosis.

Mar 01
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Mar 05

The Cornell Cinema presents a film by Ben Shapiro on the complex process of acclaimed photographer Gregory Crewdson.

Mar 07

The Cornell Cinema is presenting An Evening with College Artist/Animator Lewis Klahr, featuring a selection of the college artist/animator's short films.

Mar 11
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Mar 15

A multi-channel video installation by Taber Colleti, BFA '13.

Mar 28

The Cornell Cinema presents Still Moving: Pilobolus at Forty, directed by Jeff Ruoff.

Mar 29

The Cornell Cinema presents Circle in the Sand, a film by experimental filmmaker and director Michael Robinson.

Mar 30

An afternoon and evening of innovation in electronic music, featuring the legendary Simeon Coxe of Silver Apples and Malcolm Cecil of Tonto's Expanding Head Band.

Mar 31
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Apr 13

Produced by AAP students, ASSOCIATION fosters inter-departmental dialogue that is shared with the Cornell community and network of alumni and professionals.

Apr 03

Hindustani Classical Music/Jazz crossover performance, featuring saxophonist George Brooks.

Apr 04

The Cornell Cinema Presents Consuming Spirits, a film by animator Chris Sullivan.

Apr 05
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Apr 13

In this play directed by Melanie Dreyer-Lude, an undercover Latina returns to her hometown on the Arizona Border to teach the next generation about what it is to be free only to find herself and her students held hostage to the politics of fear.

Apr 05
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Apr 09

Set to the rhythms of Brazil, Bel Borba Aqui: A Man and a City introduces a one-man life-force who proves that his country is a lot more than favelas, soccer, and drugs.

Apr 07
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Apr 24

A hydroponic installation by Peter Gudonis (B.Arch '14) and Carly Dean (B.Arch '14).

Apr 15
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Apr 26

“Ply Candy” is a furniture exhibition by BFA student Michelle Chen that explores the eschewed domain of surface decoration, challenging what furniture could be visually beyond form and function.

Apr 18

Contrapunkt presents its 3rd Annual Art Concert as an exploration of the relationships between music, visual, literary, and performance artists.

Apr 18
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Apr 20

Spencer Whale, PMA '14, directs Melancholy Play: A Contemporary Farce -- a moving yet ridiculous play by Sarah Ruhl.

Apr 19

A collaborative performance by CU World Drum & Dance and Nukporfe, Binghamton University’s African Drum and Dance Ensemble.

Apr 20
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Jul 14

The exhibition will showcase geographically and chronologically diverse holdings relative to the motion of looking at hair across cultures, hair as religous significance, gender distinctions between hair, and contemporary commericalization of hair.

Apr 20
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Apr 26

An interdisciplinary collaboration between artists, engineers, and scientists from across the Cornell community engaged in research, experimentation, and performance to activate the laboratory as site of critical inquiry and cultural production.

Apr 20

The Museum Club hosts a free reception celebrating the annual showcase and the opening of Hair: Untangling Roots of Identity with a variety of student performance groups, art making, refreshments, and more.

Apr 22
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Apr 26

A symposium centered around the formalistic aesthetic of the ''Darmstadt School" - Andrew Zhou and Xak Bjerken, co-directors, with Walter Zimmermann, composer-in-residence with guest artists JACK Quartet, pianist Heather O'Donnell, and Ensemble X.

Apr 26
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Apr 28

An installation/performance work based on The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Infamous Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe and Carolyn Goelzer’s experience of raising 200 plants from seed in various growing conditions in her studio in northeast Minneapolis.

Apr 27

The Cornell Chamber Orchestra performs collaboratively with guest ensemble PRISM Quartet.

Apr 27

Matilda Ceesay presents "Semblance," imagining a present-day Africa untouched by colonialism.

Apr 27

The Cornell Fashion Collective is a student-run organization that produces an annual runway show to serve as a platform for displaying the original fashion work of Cornell students.

Apr 27

Brandon Wen's (BS '15) collection Secret J means to expose the coded sexuality and perversion that is in much of the imagery we are accustomed to seeing and believe to be "safe."

Apr 28

An experimental multimedia piece incorporating sound, live music performance, and video art to create an immersive concert experience.

Apr 29
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May 26

Caroline O’Donnell/CODA Natural Selection presents three recent competition entries which explore the relationship between architecture and its niche.

May 03
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May 10

The Cornell University Fine Art department presents "Free School," a Cornell MFA exhibition in New York City.

May 04

Published by Fourth and Verse Books, Chiasmus is a micropress established by four poets in Cornell’s MFA program.

May 04

Cornell’s one and only Taiko drumming group, Yamatai, will perform at PULSE 2013, incorporating traditional Taiko pieces as well as original compositions.