Spring 2023 Grantees
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…
Special Grant Cycle for Spring 2023 Projects
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…
2022 Cornell Biennial: In Review
Highlights 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…
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,…
2022 Biennial Artists Announced
30+ INVITATIONAL AND CORNELL ARTISTS Cornell Council for the Arts announces the fifth Cornell Biennial, featuring artworks, installations, and performances addressing the curatorial theme: “Futurities, Uncertain.”…
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 Grants Open 2022!
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…
Call for Cornell Biennial Applications: January 28, 2022
Kyungwon Moon + Joonho Jeon, The Ways of Folding Space and Flying Cornell Council for the Arts Calls for Entries, 2022 Cornell Biennial, “Futurities, Uncertain,” Fall…
Bilingual “Regio (Royal)” highlights lives of immigrant Latinx workers
"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…
Spring 2023 Grantees
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…
Read more2022 Cornell Biennial: In Review
Highlights 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 Cornell Biennial has finally come to a close. Among the dozens of memories and…
Read moreThe 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. The Cherry is now accepting submissions for an exhibition "Local Futurities" scheduled for Fall 2022.…
Read more2022 Biennial Artists Announced
30+ INVITATIONAL AND CORNELL ARTISTS 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 Comparative Literature and Literatures in English, the 2022 Cornell Biennial…
Read moreCCA 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. CCA grants offer direct financial support for the development of new, experimental, and exceptional arts…
Read moreCCA Grants Open 2022!
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,…
Read moreCall for Cornell Biennial Applications: January 28, 2022
Kyungwon Moon + Joonho Jeon, The Ways of Folding Space and Flying 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 Biennial around the…
Read moreBilingual “Regio (Royal)” highlights lives of immigrant Latinx workers
"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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What is That Outside of Schwartz!?
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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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 to be shared with the University and Ithaca community. Applications for the 2021-2022 academic…
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Memories, tech intertwine in student play ‘Benchmark’
"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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Deadline Sept. 14 to apply for arts council grants
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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Botanic Gardens mural nurtures connections with plants
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 Concert Series works to keep the music playing
Lucy Fitz Gibbon, right, interim director of the Cornell Voice Program, performs at the 2019 Marlboro Music Festival. Photo provided by Pete Checchia. Social distancing measures to stop the spread of COVID-19 canceled the last two shows of the spring 2020 Cornell Concert Series, challenging…
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‘Ithaca Sounding’ celebrates homegrown experimental music
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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Cornell fashion exhibit to run at American Labor Museum
“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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Roundtables to explore 2020 Biennial theme 'Swarm'
2020 Cornell Biennial 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 of faculty members and students will informally discuss their work…
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Writer, emeritus professor James McConkey dies at 98
James McConkey with his dogs. Photo provided. 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 was 98.
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Debate team to re-create Buckley vs. Baldwin in play at State
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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Regina Mun and the Cornell Fashion Collective Stun Cornell’s Barton Hall
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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Symposium welcomes artists, public to explore feminist performance
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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Hollywood and brides: Designers ready for 35th Runway Show
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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Rethinking empowerment with 'Fashions from the Frontline' at Cornell exhibition
Women Empowered: Fashions from the Frontline. Ruth Bader Ginsberg 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 student. A few displays down are…
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The Curdling of American Masculinity in University Frats
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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Exhibit chronicles women’s empowerment through fashion
Coretta Scott King wears a local 1199 union cap during the 1969 “Union Power, Soul Power” campaign, where she served as honorary chair and advocated for health care workers’ rights on the picket line in Charleston, South Carolina. Kheel Center/Provided Chronicling how women have strategically…
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Cornell Exhibit to Feature Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Shoes, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Collars
Shoes that Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) wore while campaigning will be included in a new exhibit on campus. Image/Rachel Getman 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…
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Knotted installation proposes ways to reduce timber waste
LOG KNOT‘s form references how forests are extracted for resources in a perpetual cycle of harvesting and regrowth. (Courtesy Cornell Robotic Construction Laboratory) When a tree is harvested for wood, what happens to the pieces that aren’t ramrod straight? An installation designed by Cornell University’s…
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Milstein students get a glimpse of artist Xu Bing’s character
Xu Bing, left, A.D. White Professor-at-Large, speaks to students in the Milstein Program in Technology and Humanity with help from graduate student Junting Huang, serving as translator. Image/Andrew Gao '22 Students in the Milstein Program in Technology and Humanity were treated to a special Q&A…
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CCA Biennial launches with art projects across campus
Featured CCA Biennial artist Carrie Mae Weems discusses her Arts Quad installation “Heave” during a tour of Biennial art projects on campus. Jason Koski/Brand Communications The 2018 Cornell Council for the Arts (CCA) Biennial launched with a tour of outdoor projects on campus Sept. 28…
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Log Knot, The Emperor's Canary, and Todd: AAP Faculty and Student Work in the 2018 CCA Biennial
One of the two gramophones installed as part of Joanna Malinowska and C.T. Jasper's work for the biennial titled The Emperor's Canary. Edith Fikes/AAP The 2018 Cornell Council for the Arts (CCA) Biennial is underway and includes three projects by AAP students and faculty, each…
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Carrie Mae Weems: HEAVE
Carrie Mae Weems, Meet Me At The Edge Of The World, 2018. Image/Carrie Mae Weems 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…
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What are the Mysterious Structures on the Arts Quad?
Boris Tsang / Sun Assistant Photography Editor 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 of the planned Sophomore Village that is meant…
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Dance, multimedia performance to open 2018 CCA Biennial
A scene from Ni’Ja Whitson’s “A Meditation on Tongues,” a multimedia dance performance being staged for Cornell Council for the Arts’ 2018 Biennial, Sept. 14-15 at the Schwartz Center. The 2018 Cornell Council for the Arts (CCA) Biennial kicks off Sept. 14-15 at 8 p.m.…
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CCA Biennial 2018: Duration: Passage, Persistence, Survival
Ni'Ja Whitson, A Meditation on Tongues. Photo: Scott Shaw. 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 features Carrie Mae Weems…
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Robotically-Built LOG KNOT Installation on Ag Quad Optimizes Wood Usage
The LOG KNOT installation is composed of irregularly-shaped logs connected in a twisting design. BreAnne Fleer / Sun News Editor Looping around itself on the Ag Quad stands LOG KNOT — On Perpetual Wood Cycles and Forest Processes, a new installation built with robotic technology…
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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 22 items in cases as well as touchable pieces of textured fabric to emphasize that…
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Empathy project goes online
Empathy Project 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 Cornell Council for the Arts’ 2016 biennial and meant to remain…
Read more2018 Biennial on 'Duration' to feature major artists
Ni'Ja Whitson, A Meditation on Tongues. Photo: Scott Shaw. 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 artist panels and leading gallery and…
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Ariana Kim, Aizuri Quartet win prestigious M-Prize
The Aizuri Quartet, from left, Ariana Kim, Karen Ouzounian, Ayane Kozasa and Miho Saegusa. 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…
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Students, faculty reflect on lessons from Wynton Marsalis' visit
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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Designers prep for 34th annual Runway Show
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 to mentor, perform during Cornell visit March 22-28
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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Locally Grown Dance performances showcase improvisation, discipline
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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Cornell Council for the Arts supports 35 new projects
“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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Art installation unveiled at Cornell explores empathy and features local family
"Side by Side" exhibit by Pepon Osorio, displayed at Cornell University. Kelsey O'Connor/Ithaca Voice 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…
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Arts council accepting applications for project funding
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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'Angkor Awakens' explores Cambodia's hope, traumatic past
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…
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Palestinian-Syrian refugees focus of play 'Desert of Light'
An image taken in the Yarmouk refugee camp outside Damascus, from the multimedia production 'Desert of Light' at the Schwartz Center. Photo by Lens Yound Dimashqi. Palestinian-Syrian playwright Rama Haydar’s “Desert of Light” is a tragicomic and human portrayal of the refugee crisis in the…
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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. Underneath the…
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Cornell Council for the Arts 2016 Biennial to focus on empathy
A detail from guest artist Teresa Diehl’s CCA Biennial project, “Revolution.” 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 campus between…
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Cornell Council for the Arts supports 40 new projects
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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Cornell Council for the Arts accepting project proposals
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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Cornell to strike a pose at 32nd runway show March 12
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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Art series highlights creative discovery in 'A Needle Woman'
A Needle Woman. Photo by Jason Koski/University Photography. 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 a Souvenir” represented a new direction for…
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Ariana Kim records 'powerful' works by women composers
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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Cornell Council for the Arts awards 33 project grants
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.
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CCA Biennial Artist Kimsooja wins 2015 Ho-Am Foundation Prize
The Ho-Am Foundation 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 past by video artist Nam-June Paik, is presented each year to individuals…
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Biennial's art and science collaborations earn acclaim
Materials science and engineering professor Uli Wiesner, artist Kimsooja, CCA Director Stephanie Owens and architect Jaeho Chong with Kimsooja's "A Needle Woman" after its installation on the Arts Quad in September. A temporary art installation on campus, part of the Cornell Council for the Arts’…
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New artwork by Kimsooja unveiled as part of the 2014 Biennial
Kimsooja, A Needle Woman: Galaxy was a Memory, Earth is a Souvenir, 2014. Steel, custom acrylic panel, laminated block copolymer film, mirror; 46 x 4.5 (diameter) feet. Photograph: Jaeho Chong. © Kimsooja Studio. As part of the 2014 CCA Biennial, Korean-born conceptual multi-media artist Kimsooja…
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Art and nanotech converge in campus biennial
CCA director Stephanie Owens and professor Uli Wiesner look over a polymer sample in Wiesner's lab, which developed material for artist Kimsooja's "Needle Woman" project on the Arts Quad. The biennial theme intends to “show how artists address realms of human experience that lie beyond…
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2014 Biennial to explore nanotech as artistic medium
CCA Director Stephanie Owens, left, and artist kimsooja toured the Arts Quad Nov. 23, the intended site of the artist's installation project in the 2014 CCA Biennial. A campuswide exhibition next fall will explore the cultural and human consequences of seeing the world at the…
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Writer Andrew Boryga '13 earns Undergraduate Artist honor
Andrew Borgya 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 Cornell Council for the Arts has announced.
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 2014.
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CCA grant winners to present arts projects at Cornell
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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Cornell Council for the Arts seeks project proposals
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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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 on these projects a listing can be found under Events + Exhibitions.
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Stephanie Owens, CCA Director 2011-14
Stephanie Owens is the new director of the Cornell Council for the Arts. Photo by Lindsay France/University Photography. 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…
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CCA Grants: 25 Years
CCA: 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 art projects produced and presented by Cornell student, staff and faculty artists,…
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The Arts + Mental Health: The Impact on the Human Spirit
Bobby McFerrin. Photo by Carol Friedman. 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 address the importance and impact of participatory and presentational…
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CCA Fall Poster 2010
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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JAMES SIENA: Eissner Artist of the Year Award 2009-10
James Siena 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 international success in the arts. The recipient is presented with a glass…
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DORIAN BANDY: Undergraduate Artist Award Recipient 2009-10
Dorian Bandy 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 culture-related programs, who has demonstrated exceptional promise in their field. The CCA…
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CCA Fall Poster 2009 CREATE | INNOVATE | ENGAGE
Fall 2009 Poster 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 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 at 5 p.m. in the atrium of Weill Hall, with dancers, musicians…
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JUNOT DIAZ: Eissner Artist of the Year Award 2007-08
Junot Diaz 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 Artist of the Year Award and will give a reading Feb. 19 at…
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CCA Fall Poster 2008 CREATE | INNOVATE | ENGAGE
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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CCA Installation by Patrick Dougherty
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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CCA Fall Poster 2007 CREATE | INNOVATE | ENGAGE
Fall 2008 CCA Poster Fall Poster 2007: CCA Installations - CCA XDesignGroup - CCA Urban Ideas Competitions - CCA CornellPublic - CCA Grants + Awards
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CCA Fall Poster 2006
Fall 2006 CCA Poster CCA Installation | CCA Symposia | CCA Lectures | CCA XDesigngroup | CCA Grants + Awards
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CCA Fall Poster 2005
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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CCA Spring Poster 2005
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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CCA Fall Poster 2004
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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CCA Spring Poster 2004
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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CCA Emerging Artist Exhibition 2004
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 artistically distinguished work from its student grants program over the preceding…
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CCA Fall Poster 2003
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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CCA Spring Poster 2003
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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