CCA Announces 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 competition to fund student and faculty projects that are artistic,…
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Apply for a CCA Grant! 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 funding for coursework or degree requirements. All types of applicants…
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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. CCA grants offer direct financial support for the development of new, experimental, and exceptional arts…
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Larissa Sansour + Søren Lind 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 to $2500 ($1000 for students) to pursue an artistic, musical,…
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"Regio (Royal)" premiers online May 21 and 23 “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 by the Department of Performing and…
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A 2020-21 CCA Grant Project by Adam Shulman. Photo by Stephen Yang. 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 and loudest part…
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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 to be shared with the University and Ithaca community. Applications for the 2021-2022 academic…
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"Benchmark," a play by student Anna Evtushenko, streams live March 26 and 27. 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 her…
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The Emperor's Canary, a 2018 Cornell Biennial project by Joanna Malinowska and C.T. Jasper. Photo provided. 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…
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A 2019-20 CCA Grant Project by the Cornell Botanic Gardens. Photo by Lindsay France/University Photography. 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…
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Cornell’s Department of Music is collaborating with performers from Ithaca College and the Ithaca community to offer “Ithaca Sounding 2020,” a multiday, multi-venue event, Jan. 30-Feb. 2. The festival and symposium will feature concerts, workshops, talks, presentations and readings focused on modernist and experimental concert…
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“Union Made: Fashioning America in the 20th Century” celebrates the history of the U.S. fashion industry and American textile production through the lens of the history of organized labor. Photo by Mark Vorreuter. The American Labor Museum, in Haledon, New Jersey, is set to celebrate…
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Debate at the State: Baldwin vs. Buckley—The Faith of Our Fathers 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 on new roles –…
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Student designers and models showcase their talents at the 35th Annual CFC runway show in Barton Hall on Saturday March 11, 2019. Founded by Onslo Carrington ’88 and Laura Russel ’88 in 1984, the Cornell Fashion Collective started as a small organization based out of…
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Visiting professor Rhodessa Jones, right, leads a master class in performance at the Schwartz Center in March 2018. Jones will join guest artists and scholars at the “Feminist Directions” symposium March 15-16. Photo by Simon Wheeler/Cornell Brand Communications. The history of feminist performance is one…
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Margaux Neborak ’19 works on her bridal collection, “My Key (to the Heart)” for the Cornell Fashion Collective’s 35th annual Runway Show. Photo by John Munson/Cornell University. Months of sketching, designing and hand-sewing original garments comes to a climax for more than two dozen student…
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All images courtesy/copyrighted by Andrew Moisey from the book The American Fraternity: An Illustrated Ritual Manual, published by Daylight. 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…
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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 22 items in cases as well as touchable pieces of textured fabric to emphasize that…
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Wynton Marsalis gives a presentation to local middle school students at a community event March 24 at Beverly J. Martin Elementary School. Intense. Approachable. Wise. Those were among the impressions several Cornell faculty and students have from a week spent with jazz musician and educator…
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Taking pages from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle for her “Spectrum of Paradox” collection, Jacqueline Fogarty ’18 was inspired by Doyle’s transition from skeptic to spiritualist. The collection juxtaposes logic and belief, from a closed-umbrella shape to an ethereal flowing presence. Photo by Jason Koski/University Photography.…
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Wynton Marsalis will visit Cornell starting March 22. Photo by Joe Martinez for Jazz at Lincoln Center. 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…
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From left, Niara Hardister and Alexis Vinzons practice for Locally Grown Dance. Photo by Aubrey Akers. 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…
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“Obsession” by graduate student Jingyang Liu. 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 short-term residencies or on-campus collaborations with guest artists.
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CCA-funded projects for 2016-17 include “Polyphony,” shown in John Hartell Gallery in September. The interactive installation based on reactive systems was conceived by Jingyang Liu, M.Arch. II ’15; Shining (Christina) Sun, B.Arch. ’17 (pictured), and Yue Gu, M.Arch. ’16. Photo by William Staffeld/AAP. The Cornell…
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A Muslim girl among the crowd at a demonstration in Phnom Penh in December 2014, in a scene from "Angkor Awakens." 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…
Read moreCCA-funded projects for 2016-17 include “Polyphony,” shown in John Hartell Gallery in September. The interactive installation based on reactive systems was conceived by Jingyang Liu, M.Arch. II ’15; Shining (Christina) Sun, B.Arch. ’17 (pictured), and Yue Gu, M.Arch. ’16. Photo by William Staffeld/AAP. Underneath the…
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Master of Fine Arts student Jerry Lim's handmade artist book "The Light House is Not a Nautical Themed Bar.” 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…
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The Cornell Fashion Collective's recent runway show was supported by a Cornell Council for the Arts grant. 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.…
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Linnea Fong ’16 works on her sportswear collection. 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 an expected crowd of more…
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Ariana Kim 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 age 3, says she hopes the album will bring a new understanding of…
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Access Apparati by Lauren van Haaften-Schick, 2015-16 CCA Grant Project 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.
Read moreThe 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 2014.
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Image by Joanna Baucic BFA '13, CCA grant recipient 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 support from the Cornell Council for…
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Image by Elizabeth Corkery, M.F.A. '13, CCA grant recipient 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 fall semester in 2013.
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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 on these projects a listing can be found under Events + Exhibitions.
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2010 CCA Poster 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 on problems of consciousness, inter-subjective relation, theories of emergence and Buddhist philosophy…
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2008 CCA Poster 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, and the synthesis between the university, Ithaca, and global locations. CCA is…
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Installation by Patrick Dougherty; photo by Julie Magura. 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 Court Plaza, Collegetown. The Installation will be…
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Fall 2008 CCA Poster Fall Poster 2007: CCA Installations - CCA XDesignGroup - CCA Urban Ideas Competitions - CCA CornellPublic - CCA Grants + Awards
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Fall 2006 CCA Poster CCA Installation | CCA Symposia | CCA Lectures | CCA XDesigngroup | CCA Grants + Awards
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Image by Carrie T. Chalmers, CCA grant recipient 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 -- will be launched. CCA Grants + Awards…
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Image by Elidor Mehili, CCA grant recipient 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, creative literary arts, and space + installation arts.
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Image by Catherine Callahan, CCA grant recipient 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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Image by Medina Lasansky, CCA grant recipient 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, creative literary arts, and space + installation arts.…
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Detail from "Touch" video by Janine Antoni, courtesy of the artist and the Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York 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…
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Image by Camilo Jose Vergara 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 of political, social, and cultural contest. Art and Politics is…
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