Cornell in Rome instructor Jeffrey Blanchard, left, takes a moment to point out important aspects of the Roman Forum from atop the Capitoline Hill. Learn more about the Cornell in Rome program.
Bachelor of fine arts students present thesis projects in a final presentation and critique at the end of the spring semester. The B.F.A. curriculum combines the intensive studio culture of the art department with enhanced access to electives in all areas of the university. Learn more about applying to the B.F.A. program.
Featured in The New York Times — "Why This Artist Is Paying Bodegas With 120,000 Pennies." In New York City, artist Jill Magid (B.F.A. ’95) spends coins that are engraved with a message about the pandemic for her public art project Tender.
Oct. 19 — "Dalal Musaed Alsayer: The U.S. Suburb in the Desert: Aramco, Dharhan, Saudi Arabia, c. 1950" is the second event in the Preston H. Thomas Memorial Symposium, "Into the Desert: Questions of Coloniality and Toxicity." 
Empathy, Affordance, and Architecture: Panel Discussion
Urchin, by Caroline O'Donnell, is installed on the Arts Quad as part of the 2016 Cornell Council for the Arts Biennial. photo / Cornell University
Aleksandr Mergold's American Spolia: Crossing the Line, will be on display on Libe Slope until December. photo / provided
Urchin, by Caroline O'Donnell, is installed on the Arts Quad as part of the 2016 Cornell Council for the Arts Biennial. photo / Cornell University
Aleksandr Mergold's American Spolia: Crossing the Line, will be on display on Libe Slope until December. photo / provided
This panel discussion will feature architecture's Assistant Professor Aleksandr Mergold and Caroline O'Donnell, Edgar A. Tafel Assistant Professor and director of the M.Arch. program. Mergold's American Spolia: Crossing the Line and O'Donnell's Urchin are both featured in the 2016 Cornell Council for the Arts Biennial: Abject/Object Empathies.
The moderator for the session will be James Cutting, professor of psychology in Cornell's College of Arts and Sciences.
