Greetings from Outer Atmosphere, signed Carbon Dioxide is a video installation and public dialogue at Cornell Tech that brings satellite-recorded CO₂ animation work, hosted by the Xu Bing Space Art Residency, into conversation with the working scientists who made it possible.

A contemporary concert series by the Cornell Viol Consort brings together newly commissioned works by graduate composers, historical repertoire, and innovative arrangements of modern music for viol ensemble, exploring the merging of early music with contemporary compositional practices.

This campus-wide exhibition uses printed matter to make the arts visible across Cornell’s daily spaces, turning distribution, hosting, and participation into the curatorial theme and structure.

This exhibition highlights the transdisciplinary work of faculty, fellows, and students from the multicollege department of Design Tech at Cornell AAP with a specific focus this year on AI, Design, & Creativity.

Design Expo is a week-long, cross-disciplinary exhibition at Cornell’s Human Ecology Building celebrating student design work from across campus, uniting engineering, fashion, architecture, computing, and more under the shared motto: Design with Purpose, Design for People.

The Kops DIY Studio is a networked, community‑driven hub for sound arts, audio production, and multimedia practices in Lincoln Hall, providing shared access to professional recording infrastructure that supports collaborative, creative work.

This series of film screenings provides the Cornell community the chance to explore the cinematic representation of the Middle East through the work of directors and auteurs from the region and beyond.

Hit The Ground Running Dance Theatre presents Suitcases, a moving performance inspired by Massachusetts photographer Jon Crispin’s exhibition, ‘The Willard Suitcases’. Exploring four specific cases, this theatrical production pays homage to the innocent lives behind them. It is a powerful journey.

The Cornell Chamber Orchestra performs a live original score to the 1920 silent film Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in Bailey Hall, accompanied by an interdisciplinary panel exploring music, film, and literature.

An intergenerational participatory art project that transforms lived experiences of care into drawings, maps, and a public installation, bringing together international feminist spatial practices and local knowledge to reimagine public space as a shared infrastructure of care.

Masque of Frames is a modular, hardware-less timber installation that reinterprets scaffolding as an open, reconfigurable stage where structure and narrative unfold together, enabling communities to assemble, inhabit, and transform space through collective participation & evolving spatial sequences.

Musical compositions and weaving drafts are systems of encoded instruction that transform structure into physical and sensory experiences, and this project translates music into handwoven textiles using locally-sourced wool.

A semester-long, interdisciplinary project that reexamines the Voyager Golden Record through music, bringing together scholars, artists, and scientists to explore how humanity represents itself—and how such representations might be heard, interpreted, or reimagined today.

This social engagement will be a built environment/ interactive installation at the Soil Factory utilizing a built environment that will be a fractal mimicry of the refuge biochar provides for microbes in the soil.

ReSaw is a public seesaw installation on Cornell’s Arts Quad that transforms 180-year-old salvaged lumber from McGraw Hall into a structural GrooveLam beam, allowing students to physically engage with the strength, history, and circular potential of reclaimed materials.

A public art piece installed in Downtown Ithaca, informed by collaborating with the Latino Civic Association to gather local testimonies from Latino migrants in Ithaca, critically reflecting on their visibility.

This project highlights various perspectives of urban ecology and environmental justice by empowering and inspiring local communities through guerilla gardening via artist illustrated seed packets, and engaging them in citizen science with biodiversity research done by Cornell plant scientists.

This project will initiate a process to reimagine the grounds surrounding Tjaden Hall as a living, evolving medium—one that embodies cycles of growth, making, and reciprocity through plants cultivated for dyes, fibers, pigments, and other materials used in artistic practice.

Bringing cinema to the people. Erice himself has stated that “when I’ve finished a film, it’s no longer mine – it belongs to the people. I’m nothing more than an intermediary in the process.” In this sense, our proposed series “Ode to Light. Victor Erice’s Films within Films” represents cinema for the people as stated in our one sentence summation.

The Soil Factory in Ithaca is organizing an innovative Summer School inspired by Black Mountain College where 15-20 artists are invited to spend time to engage in an innovative experiment in art creativity and community that focuses on ‘process’ and ‘presence’, not ‘product’.

By reimagining modernity as the ‘Titanic,’ this project utilizes video animation, visual storytelling, and an exhibition to provoke a shift in collective imagination, inviting the Cornell community to visualize and co-create a ‘pluriversal archipelago’ of sustainable and joyful futures.

Mutual Routes: A Living Infrastructure of Care is a participatory public art project that maps and materializes the informal mutual aid networks sustaining NYC’s delivery cyclists, culminating in a public exhibition and pop-up activation.

As a thematic extension and visual complement to Jenna Lilly’s graduate research, boundary / objects invites audiences into the process of inquiry by exploring the art-sci convergence zone through a curated selection of pieces from both contemporary artists and field station scientists.

A collective art exhibition consisting of eleven graduating MFA Image Text students showcasing their final projects.

An exhibition of collaged photo-sculptural works that examine routine, medical dependency, bodily slog, and the distances between desire and disease.

RingShout is a musical satellite that will orbit the earth, transmitting original music and interviews featuring Black girls and women whose names mean “star” and reflect our connections to the cosmos.

The inauguration of Picture Book Press, a radical student-led press created by the Image Text MFA Class of ’27 cohort that honors cross-medium artistic practices through collaboration; collective, multi-year ideation; and bold formal experimentation.

Loop Loop Loop is a durational performance using dozens of cassette tape loops played on portable recorders, gradually activated and deactivated to create a shifting, spatialized sonic field that explores accumulation, memory, and the material instability of analog recording.

Jump is a short film about grief, mental health advocacy, and the healing power of the mountains. Creator and subject Stevie Phelabaum traces her journey through loss and depression after her father’s suicide, showcasing how backcountry skiing became her lifeline and a reason to stay alive.

Inspired by the beloved classic, Wild Animals I Have Known: Reconnecting with Ecologies in Crisis will be a book featuring the work of artists engaging with the nonhuman-world, and essays reflecting critically on the power of art and observation to build empathy with the natural environment.

ETA/Estimated Time for Action is a new 2-day time-based arts festival proposed for Cornell University, amplifying acclaimed artists whose bodies of work intersect with urgent social causes and catalyze community and critical change: Emily Johnson, Tony Orrico, Jaamil Olawale Kosoko.

Embodied Soundscapes is a collaborative interdisciplinary performance project by Paulina Velázquez Solís & Travis Johns with Greek-Swiss composer Eleni Ralli and the False Relationships and Extended Endings Ensemble including movement, sculpture, interactivity and sound.

Machete Machete is a research project exploring the labor histories of Latinx and Latin American workers, with a focus on resistance music as a form of collective catharsis. The project aims to reinterpret these songs as a punk rock cover album, recorded, and performed live at a record release show.

Black Cinema Lab is a curated interdisciplinary series that explores Black film through screenings, critical dialogue, and creative response, will culminate in a public campus-wide event featuring a guest artist and student work.

The BaleWorks is a collaborative, site-responsive installation that treats construction as a performative, evolving art practice, using straw and timber to engage the public in ecological cycles, material reuse, and collective making.