This is a developmental project for The Family Copoli: a post-apocalyptic burlesque and repopulation play, an original musical written, produced, and performed by Cornell students and alumni.

The short documentary “A Common Ground” explores the rise of transformative mediation and what agreement and reconciliation looks like in America in 2025.

Cornell AAP ASSOCIATION publishes Volume 14 in Spring 2026.

This project concerns a collection of ecologically-informed performance art pieces, centering the human body as a site of playful yet immediate reflection.

In honor of the 2026 International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists, an exhibition centered around a free-standing Shepherd’s mantle constructed of felted local sheep’s wool, inspired by traditional Eurasian designs that function as tents—a cave of dreams for practices of “taking place.”

Polylith is a modular pavilion celebrating collective labor through an evolving construction process. Using robotics to craft intricate timber joints, it enables circular assembly without hardware, proposing a sustainable, community-driven model for AEC industries in the Anthropocene.

Image | Movement| Sound is a festival feature new intermedia works created collaboratively and non-hierarchically between Cornell musicians, dancers, artists, and image/film students and faculty. Finished works will be present together in a multi-day event.

A symposium commemorating Louise Farrenc’s 150th anniversary, celebrating her legacy as a composer, pianist, and advocate for gender equity and early music, through new work, performances, lectures, and dialogue.

Operability is a chamber opera festival founded in 2021 that commissions and premieres new works by emerging composers, and its third edition—hosted for the first time at Cornell—will feature cross-departmental collaborations, local performers, and innovative premieres by Cornell and U.S. composers in January, 2026.

A series of workshops focused on the gifts and beauty of nature and practicing art.

An exhibition of sculpture, sound, and image by Anna Ialeggio exploring ecological reclamation, wild clay bodies, and land use.

A concert of new works for ensemble and interactive media and interfaces by Travis Johns and others as part of Thai contemporary music ensemble Tacet(i)’s residency at Cornell from March 18-20, 2026.

Together (in Parts) is an installation of chroma-keyable green and blue fabric pieces that can be worn or arrayed as outdoor casual seating.

The Cornell Symphony Orchestra, Gabriela Gómez Estévez conductor and the Jazz Ensemble, Paul Merrill director, present Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker with Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn’s Nutcracker Suite.

TRASH is a solo piece about climate refuse and justice, a stratospheric (atmospheric) act of reflection, an invitation for civic engagement- illuminating waste – as a warning (and as nourishment).

Steel, wood, ivory, hair, and guts: a performance series and short film project wandering through three hundred years of music for cello and piano.

The Girth of Venus is a life-sized plaster sculpture of a plus-sized queer man posed like Botticelli’s Venus, collaged with magazine clippings and exhibited publicly to celebrate body diversity, queer visibility, and classical camp through contemporary figurative art.

The Experimental Sound Series at Cornell (ESSC) invites renowned contemporary harpist Rhodri Davies to perform eight new electroacoustic works in Sage Chapel to explore cutting-edge methods of composition such as graphic notation and text-based scores.

Martha Guth and Graham Johnson will perform, elucidate, and teach the art of German and French song, making use of nineteenth-century pianos from the collection of the Cornell Center for Historical Keyboards.

“Cross the Sea” brings Taipei Voices from Taiwan to Cornell University for a collaborative concert with the Cornell Chorale.

A postcard workshop and exhibition that engages historical imagery and narratives with contemporary storytelling.

Grey Space is a site-specific sound installation that uses overlapping radio signals to create an environment for participants to compose their own sonic experience by physically navigating the Library of Music and Dance, creating a situation to explore a physical space through listening.

A collaboration between musician María Bulla and visual artist Carla Rangel, the project consists of the composition, recording and performance of an album capturing the soundscape of alternative farming visions in the Ithaca region.

ETA/Estimated Time for Action is a new two-day time-based arts festival on May 1-2, 2026 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.

This series of film programs is designed to revitalize a focus on experimental cinema and connect new filmmaking communities at Cornell Cinema.

Musical Cultures of Asia is a mini music festival, featuring three headline concerts of traditional Asian musics, as well as numerous mini-recitals and concerts, held in conjunction with an academic conference (Music Theories, Histories, Analysis, and the Musical Cultures of Asia).

Through photographing Cornell-associated research sites, this project examines how post-WWII big science experiments interrelate with late 20th century experimental artistic practices.

Personhood 2026 is an audio-visual projection-mapped art experience that uses interactive disembodied shadows to capture the uncanny feeling of occupying a space with almost-human AI agents.