Spring 2023 Grantees
The Cornell Council for the Arts (CCA) hosted a special mid-year grant competition exclusively for Spring 2023 projects on campus. Each year (and this year, twice!), the CCA holds a...
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Special Grant Cycle for Spring 2023 Projects
Announcing a special mid-year competition for CCA grants! Cornell students, student groups, faculty, departments, and programs are eligible to apply. Projects must occur in Spring 2023, and students cannot use...
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2022 Cornell Biennial: In Review
The fifth Cornell Biennial featured 40 artists across 36 events from July through November 2022. Curated by Timothy Murray and hosted by the Cornell Council for the Arts, the 2022...
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The Cherry Arts Competition
The Cherry Arts is a radically local, radically international, experimental multidisciplinary arts company specializing in international performing arts, studio classes, and a newly-opened visual arts gallery, located in Ithaca, NY....
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2022 Biennial Artists Announced
Cornell Council for the Arts announces the fifth Cornell Biennial, featuring artworks, installations, and performances addressing the curatorial theme: “Futurities, Uncertain.” Curated by Timothy Murray, CCA Director and Professor of...
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CCA Grants: Info Session 4/14
Information Session: Thursday April 14 from 12-1pm EST Applications Due: Friday April 22 The Cornell Council for the Arts (CCA) announces the annual competition for the CCA Individual Grant Program. ...
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CCA Grants Open 2022!
The Cornell Council for the Arts (CCA) is now accepting applications to the individual grant program. Faculty members, student organizations and individual students alike are invited to apply for up...
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Call for Cornell Biennial Applications: January 28, 2022
Cornell Council for the Arts Calls for Entries, 2022 Cornell Biennial, “Futurities, Uncertain,” Fall 2022 In Fall 2022, the Cornell Council for the Arts (CCA) will host the fifth Cornell...
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Bilingual “Regio (Royal)” highlights lives of immigrant Latinx workers
“Regio (Royal),” a new theatre production that uses contemporary dance and puppetry to share stories about Latinx immigrant workers affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, premiers online May 21 and 23, produced...
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What is That Outside of Schwartz!?
For many Cornellians, sunbathing on the patio outside of Schwartz Performing Arts Center is a quintessential memory of joyful warm days in Ithaca. Yet, despite its location in the busiest...
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Deadline April 28 to apply for arts council grants
The Cornell Council for the Arts (CCA) announces the competition for the CCA grant program. CCA Grants offer direct financial support for the development of new, experimental and exceptional arts projects...
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Memories, tech intertwine in student play ‘Benchmark’
Anna Evtushenko is a student of both information science and playwriting. At the intersection of these two passions is “Benchmark,” her play about a woman who relies on technology to preserve...
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Deadline Sept. 14 to apply for arts council grants
The Cornell Council for the Arts has extended to Sept. 14 the deadline to apply for funding through the Individual Grant Program, which offers direct financial support for the development of new...
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Botanic Gardens mural nurtures connections with plants
In addition to its natural splendor, Cornell Botanic Gardens now boasts an outdoor art installation: a two-story mural, created in September 2019 by Brazilian street artist Eder Muniz. “A Dança Da Natureza”...
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Cornell Concert Series works to keep the music playing
Social distancing measures to stop the spread of COVID-19 canceled the last two shows of the spring 2020 Cornell Concert Series, challenging organizers to connect performers with fans in new ways....
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Cornell fashion exhibit to run at American Labor Museum
The American Labor Museum, in Haledon, New Jersey, is set to celebrate fashion trends alongside the history of organized labor and union labeling efforts in the United States by hosting...
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Roundtables to explore 2020 Biennial theme ‘Swarm’
The Cornell Council for the Arts is holding three lunchtime roundtables in preparation for the 2020 Cornell Biennial, focused on the theme “Swarm: Ecology, Digitality, Sociality.” At each roundtable, an interdisciplinary group...
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Writer, emeritus professor James McConkey dies at 98
Acclaimed writer James McConkey, the Goldwin Smith Professor of English Literature Emeritus and mentor to young writers at Cornell for nearly four decades, died Oct. 24, 2019 at his home in Enfield. He...
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Debate team to re-create Buckley vs. Baldwin in play at State
Cornell Speech and Debate Society members have a busy few weeks coming up as they prepare for the national championships and prelims. On top of that, the students are trying...
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Regina Mun and the Cornell Fashion Collective Stun Cornell’s Barton Hall
Founded by Onslo Carrington ’88 and Laura Russel ’88 in 1984, the Cornell Fashion Collective started as a small organization based out of Willard Straight Hall. Today, it has grown...
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Symposium welcomes artists, public to explore feminist performance
The history of feminist performance is one of radical storytelling, of showing how the personal is political, and of carving out spaces in which women can feel, in the words...
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Hollywood and brides: Designers ready for 35th Runway Show
Months of sketching, designing and hand-sewing original garments comes to a climax for more than two dozen student designers this week at the Cornell Fashion Collective’s 35th annual Runway Show, March...
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Rethinking empowerment with ‘Fashions from the Frontline’ at Cornell exhibition
Knit hats in all different shades of pink from the Women’s March fill a display case. In front of the hats is a colorful circus-themed ensemble created by a Cornell...
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The Curdling of American Masculinity in University Frats
Published in October 2018, Moisey’s The American Fraternity: An Illustrated Ritual Manual chronicles a startling pantomime of stunted, rapacious youth alongside the text of a 60-year-old “ritual book” discovered on the floor of...
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Exhibit chronicles women’s empowerment through fashion
Chronicling how women have strategically used fashion to empower and collectively uplift themselves, the exhibition is part of the 2018 Cornell Council for the Arts Biennial and explores the Biennial theme of...
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Cornell Exhibit to Feature Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Shoes, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Collars
Chronicling how women have strategically used fashion to empower and collectively uplift themselves, the exhibition is part of the 2018 Cornell Council for the Arts Biennial and explores the Biennial theme of...
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Knotted installation proposes ways to reduce timber waste
When a tree is harvested for wood, what happens to the pieces that aren’t ramrod straight? An installation designed by Cornell University’s Robotic Construction Laboratory (RCL) proposes an answer to that...
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Milstein students get a glimpse of artist Xu Bing’s character
Students in the Milstein Program in Technology and Humanity were treated to a special Q&A session Sept. 26 with Chinese artist and A.D. White Professor-at-Large Xu Bing, whose animation “The...
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CCA Biennial launches with art projects across campus
The 2018 Cornell Council for the Arts (CCA) Biennial launched with a tour of outdoor projects on campus Sept. 28 and artist panels at a conference Sept. 29. The Biennial...
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Log Knot, The Emperor’s Canary, and Todd: AAP Faculty and Student Work in the 2018 CCA Biennial
The 2018 Cornell Council for the Arts (CCA) Biennial is underway and includes three projects by AAP students and faculty, each taking a different approach to this year's theme of...
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Carrie Mae Weems: HEAVE
Produced by Carrie Mae Weems for the 2018 CCA Biennial, Heave is a two-part artwork installed in specially designed pavilions on Cornell’s central Arts Quad. Linked to Weems’ 2017 project for the Park Avenue Armory, A...
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What are the Mysterious Structures on the Arts Quad?
One day, Cornellians woke up to find two unassuming, beige-colored structures in the Arts Quad that didn’t entirely seem at home there. Some students jokingly speculated the construction was part...
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Dance, multimedia performance to open 2018 CCA Biennial
The 2018 Cornell Council for the Arts (CCA) Biennial kicks off Sept. 14-15 at 8 p.m. at the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts with “A Meditation on Tongues,” conceived and directed...
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CCA Biennial 2018: Duration: Passage, Persistence, Survival
The Cornell Council for the Arts (CCA) announces the theme and participants for the 3rd CCA Biennial, 2018, Duration: Passage, Persistence, Survival. Curated by CCA Director, Timothy Murray, the 2018 CCA Biennial...
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Robotically-Built LOG KNOT Installation on Ag Quad Optimizes Wood Usage
Looping around itself on the Ag Quad stands LOG KNOT — On Perpetual Wood Cycles and Forest Processes, a new installation built with robotic technology and made of wood that...
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TEXTURE Exhibit Invites Patrons Into a World of Tactile Textiles
Cornellians can now immerse themselves in a world of fabric and feel their way through a new exhibit called TEXTURE, hosted by the Cornell Costume and Textile Collection. TEXTURE displays...
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Empathy project goes online
Since its launch in September 2016, the Cornell Race and Empathy Project has recorded, archived and shared the everyday stories of Cornellians that evoke racial empathy. The project was funded through the...
READ MORE2018 Biennial on ‘Duration’ to feature major artists
With the theme “Duration: Passage, Persistence, Survival,” the Biennial opens Sept. 27-29 on campus with a conference, public lectures by Weems and Xu, and participating faculty members and students joining...
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Ariana Kim, Aizuri Quartet win prestigious M-Prize
The Aizuri Quartet, with violinist and assistant professor of music Ariana Kim, took the grand prize May 6 at the M-Prize Chamber Music Competition held at the University of Michigan in Ann...
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Students, faculty reflect on lessons from Wynton Marsalis’ visit
Intense. Approachable. Wise. Those were among the impressions several Cornell faculty and students have from a week spent with jazz musician and educator Wynton Marsalis, on campus March 22-28 for...
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Designers prep for 34th annual Runway Show
With materials ranging from locally sourced fibers to reclaimed scraps from clothing manufacturers, and designs from transparently human (and feminine) to one-size-fits-all, the 2018 Cornell Fashion Collective (CFC) Runway Show,...
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Wynton Marsalis to mentor, perform during Cornell visit March 22-28
Famed musician Wynton Marsalis comes to Cornell next week for his first visit as an Andrew Dickson White Professor-at-Large, to mentor and perform with student musicians, participate in classes and...
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Locally Grown Dance performances showcase improvisation, discipline
The Department of Performing and Media Arts (PMA) will present the 2018 Locally Grown Dance concert March 1-3 at the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts on the Kiplinger Theatre...
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Cornell Council for the Arts supports 35 new projects
Proposals from faculty and students ranged from art and design projects to interdisciplinary projects linking science, engineering and the arts. Projects for 2017-18 include individual student exhibitions and performances, and...
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Art installation unveiled at Cornell explores empathy and features local family
Empathy is the subject of a new art installation at Cornell University by artist-in-residence Pepón Osorio. The project, unveiled Thursday, drew inspiration from the local community. "Side by Side" was the culminating...
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Arts council accepting applications for project funding
The Cornell Council for the Arts (CCA) is now accepting grant applications for new arts projects to be exhibited or performed on campus during the 2017-18 academic year. The CCA...
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‘Angkor Awakens’ explores Cambodia’s hope, traumatic past
Robert H. Lieberman set out to paint a portrait of modern-day Cambodia with his new documentary, “Angkor Awakens.” As a people, Cambodians are struggling to understand their past under a...
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Palestinian-Syrian refugees focus of play ‘Desert of Light’
Palestinian-Syrian playwright Rama Haydar’s “Desert of Light” is a tragicomic and human portrayal of the refugee crisis in the Middle East – and “a very inside perspective of the brutal...
READ MOREArt You’re a Part of: Polyphony at the John Hartell Gallery
Underneath the Sibley dome, adjacent to the College of Architecture, Art and Planning Dean’s Office, is Polyphony. It is an interactive art installation designed by Liu (Leo) Jingyang ’15, Shining (Christina)...
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Cornell Council for the Arts 2016 Biennial to focus on empathy
The Cornell Council for the Arts (CCA) 2016 Biennial, “Abject/Object Empathies,” will feature 12 new projects by invited artists, Cornell faculty members and students. Most of the works will be presented on...
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Cornell Council for the Arts supports 40 new projects
The Cornell Council for the Arts (CCA) has awarded grants supporting 40 projects to be presented or performed during the 2016-17 academic year. Through its Individual Grant Program, the CCA offered 15...
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Cornell Council for the Arts accepting project proposals
The Cornell Council for the Arts (CCA) is seeking members of the campus community with new, experimental and exceptional art projects to apply for project grants this semester. The CCA...
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Cornell to strike a pose at 32nd runway show March 12
At the 32nd Annual Cornell Fashion Collective (CFC) Runway Show, more than 100 student models, cast from across campus, will walk the runway wearing the original creations of 34 student designers for...
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Art series highlights creative discovery in ‘A Needle Woman’
An innovative creative project by Korean-American artist Kimsooja with Cornell scientists and students is the subject of a new Art21 documentary. “A Needle Woman: Galaxy was a Memory, Earth is...
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Ariana Kim records ‘powerful’ works by women composers
Violinist Ariana Kim, assistant professor in the Department of Music, showcases works by pioneering american women composers in debut solo album, 'Routes of Evanescence.' Kim, who began playing violin at...
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Cornell Council for the Arts awards 33 project grants
The Cornell Council for the Arts (CCA) awarded grants earlier this year to support 33 art projects being presented on campus in academic year 2015-16.
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CCA Biennial Artist Kimsooja wins 2015 Ho-Am Foundation Prize
The CCA would like to extend our heartfelt congratulations to CCA 2014 Biennial Artist-in-Residence Kimsooja for being selected to receive the 2015 Ho-Am Foundation Prize. The prize, won in the...
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Biennial’s art and science collaborations earn acclaim
A temporary art installation on campus, part of the Cornell Council for the Arts’ (CCA) inaugural biennial last fall, will be the subject of an upcoming PBS documentary.
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New artwork by Kimsooja unveiled as part of the 2014 Biennial
As part of the 2014 CCA Biennial, Korean-born conceptual multi-media artist Kimsooja has created a new work in close collaboration with architect Jaeho Chong and the Wiesner Nanomaterials Lab at Cornell University.
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Art and nanotech converge in campus biennial
The biennial theme intends to “show how artists address realms of human experience that lie beyond our immediate sensory perception,” CCA Director Stephanie Owens said. “Working with scientists and researchers...
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2014 Biennial to explore nanotech as artistic medium
A campuswide exhibition next fall will explore the cultural and human consequences of seeing the world at the micro and macro levels, through nanoscience and networked communications.
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Writer Andrew Boryga ’13 earns Undergraduate Artist honor
Described by Cornell faculty in English as a major literary talent with great career potential, Andrew Boryga ’13 has been selected the Undergraduate Artist of the Year for 2012-13, the...
READ MORECornell Council for the Arts seeks project proposals
The Cornell Council for the Arts (CCA) is accepting applications through March 14 for its next grant cycle, supporting new creative projects to be presented during fall 2013 and spring...
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CCA grant winners to present arts projects at Cornell
From sculptural installations, exhibitions and performances to a symposium on DIY electronics, 41 art projects by Cornell artists and organizations will be presented on campus this academic year with funding...
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Cornell Council for the Arts seeks project proposals
The Cornell Council for the Arts (CCA) is accepting applications for its next grant cycle, supporting new creative projects to be presented between October 2012 and the start of the...
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CCA Grants 45 Arts Projects
In November 2011 the Cornell Council for the Arts awarded grants to nine student organizations, 19 faculty and departments, and 17 students to complete and present art projects. For information...
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Stephanie Owens, CCA Director 2011-14
Stephanie Owens, an artist, writer, curator and a visiting assistant professor of art in the College of Architecture, Art and Planning (AAP), has been named director of the Cornell Council...
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CCA Grants: 25 Years
CORNELL COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS: 25 YEARS OF GRANTS In 2011, the CCA created a catalogue to document and give highlight to its Grant Program. The book includes over 1,700...
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The Arts + Mental Health: The Impact on the Human Spirit
A panel discussion, moderated by Cornell President David Skorton, and performances by Cornell faculty and guest artists including Bobby McFerrin, on the general topic “The Arts + Mental Health” will...
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CCA Fall Poster 2010
CCA's POSTER 2010 features work by grant recipient Julie Phillips Brown (PhD '11 candidate, English Literature). Her current project, The Adjacent Possible, will be a booklength sequence of poems centered...
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JAMES SIENA: Eissner Artist of the Year Award 2009-10
JAMES SIENA (BFA '79): 2009-10 Eissner Artist of the Year Award recipient THE EISSNER ARTIST OF THE YEAR AWARD is presented annually to honor an alumna/us who has achieved national and/or...
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DORIAN BANDY: Undergraduate Artist Award Recipient 2009-10
DORIAN KOMANOFF BANDY (BFA MUSIC '10): 2009 Undergraduate Artist Award recipient THE CORNELL UNIVERSITY ARTIST OF THE YEAR AWARD is a monetary citation presented annually to an undergraduate in arts and...
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CCA Fall Poster 2009 CREATE | INNOVATE | ENGAGE
Fall Poster 2009: CCA Artist Grants | CCA Cornell Public | CCA@NYC | CCA Undergraduate Artist Award | CCA Cornell Eissner Alumni Artist of the Year Award
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JON WONG: Undergraduate Artist Award recipient 2008-09
Jonathan Wong '08, winner of the 2008-09 Undergraduate Artist Award from the Cornell Council for the Arts, will present a collaborative performance piece, "The Same Dance 4 Times," April 8...
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JUNOT DIAZ: Eissner Artist of the Year Award 2007-08
Díaz, a professor of creative writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and fiction editor of Boston Review, will be presented with the Cornell Council for the Arts' annual Eissner...
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CCA Fall Poster 2008 CREATE | INNOVATE | ENGAGE
The Cornell Council for the Arts (CCA) - composed of representation from 12 university departments/units affiliated with the arts at Cornell University - supports the production of art, interdisciplinary creativity,...
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CCA Installation by Patrick Dougherty
To inaugurate the CCA CornellPublic commitment to bring major Contemporary Artists installation to Cornell - the CCA invited artist Patrick Dougherty to create a series of public sculptures on Sheldon...
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CCA Fall Poster 2007 CREATE | INNOVATE | ENGAGE
Fall Poster 2007: CCA Installations - CCA XDesignGroup - CCA Urban Ideas Competitions - CCA CornellPublic - CCA Grants + Awards
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CCA Fall Poster 2006
CCA Installation | CCA Symposia | CCA Lectures | CCA XDesigngroup | CCA Grants + Awards
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CCA Fall Poster 2005
With a founding vision of placing Cornell at the forefront of creative inquiry that is multidisciplinary and socially engages, the CCA's new initiative for catalyzing public discussion -- CornellPublic --...
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CCA Spring Poster 2005
Through Individual Artist and Project Grants, the Cornell Council for the Arts supports artist projects and creative work in the genres of visual + media arts, performance + music arts,...
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CCA Fall Poster 2004
Beginning in Fall 2004 and continuing through Spring 2006, the Cornell Council for the Arts funded major grants and hosted CCA Director's Forums related to the theme, "Tolerance + Territory."
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CCA Spring Poster 2004
Through Individual Artist and Project Grants, the Cornell Council for the Arts supports artist projects and creative work in the genres of visual + media arts, performance + music arts,...
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CCA Emerging Artist Exhibition 2004
Feathergill - Katsumata - McDougal - Pash - White - Zane Every four years the Cornell Council for the Arts curates an exhibition that displays the very best quality and...
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CCA Fall Poster 2003
Art and Politics:Politics and Art Political identity is and has been a central concern of visual, performing and creative artists whose goal is to make the everyday experience the site...
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CCA Spring Poster 2003
Art and Politics:Politics and Art Political identity is and has been a central concern of visual, performing and creative artists whose goal is to make the everyday experience the site...
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