Stories

Tuesday, February 22, 2022

Art at 100, Across Cultures and Time

The Department of Art marks a century from its founding academic year with a program of public events including exhibitions, artist talks, and panel discussions that look to both the past and future of art practice and pedagogy at Cornell AAP.


Monday, February 21, 2022

Seeing and Belonging Through History: Teiger Mentor in the Arts Emily Jacir

Jacir brings a deep investment in creating alternative spaces of "knowledge production" to her teaching with M.F.A. students this spring.


Wednesday, February 2, 2022

Shifting Boundaries

The AAP Alumni Archive features artist Louise Lawler (B.F.A. '69), recalling her time as an art student at Cornell and getting started as an artist in New York City.


Friday, January 28, 2022

Art Remix: Transforming Familiar Artwork Through Collage

The AAP Alumni Archive showcases the work of Joel Carreiro (B.F.A. '71).


Thursday, January 27, 2022

Methodically Abstract

Explore artist James Siena's (B.F.A. '79) experiences at Cornell and beyond in the AAP Alumni Archive.


Monday, January 24, 2022

Spring 2022: A Look Ahead

Following two years of extraordinary effort and resolve, flexibility, imagination, and creativity fuel the upcoming semester.


Wednesday, January 19, 2022

A Collegetown Mural Memorializes Loved Ones Lost To Illness

With her Collegetown mural, Yerkezhan Abuova (B.F.A. '23) seeks closure for her family and those who have lost loved ones to illness by memorializing her own grandmothers. In the Cornell Chronicle.


Wednesday, January 19, 2022

How Does Migration Shape Life in Your Community?

AAP student Sabrina Haertig-Gonzalez (B.F.A. '22) is featured in the 2021 creative writing and art competition supported by Cornell Migrations and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Just Futures Initiative.


Tuesday, November 23, 2021

Department of Art at 100: New Leadership, Faculty, and Practice

As AAP's Department of Art marks its centennial, times past meet times to come with recent transitions in leadership and a renewed emphasis on faculty mentorship. In Art & Education.


Friday, November 19, 2021

Migration Roundtable Discusses Indigenous Displacement, Racism

The Cornell Daily Sun reports Associate Professor Jolene Rickard, Art and History of Art and Visual Studies, gave a presentation on the power of visual media to express the complexities of both Indigenous resistance and colonial violence.


Friday, October 22, 2021

Cornell Launches $5B Campaign 'To Do the Greatest Good'

The major fundraising campaign aims to shape Cornell as the model university for the 21st century & beyond, building on its foundation of world-class academics, research, & engagement — in the words of founder Ezra Cornell, "To Do the Greatest Good."


Friday, October 22, 2021

Fundraising Campaign Includes Focus On Affordability

Cornell is launching a sweeping new initiative aimed at making its education even more accessible to the most talented students from all socioeconomic backgrounds.


Friday, October 8, 2021

Lost in a Thousand Leaves with Luca Padroni

Italian artist and long-time Cornell in Rome visiting critic Luca Padroni reflects on his depiction of the human condition in relation to time and the natural world.


Friday, October 8, 2021

Stories Last Longer Than Symbols

With Who is Afraid of Natasha?, Art Professor of the Practice Joanna Malinowska and collaborator C.T. Jasper bring a monument (back) to life.


Wednesday, October 6, 2021

Collaboration Plants Seeds for Cultural, Biological Conservation

In The Cornell Chronicle, Associate Professor Jolene Rickard, history of art, speaks to a collaboration among Cornell and the Gayogo?hó:n?' (Cayuga Nation) to conserve biodiversity and safeguard human cultural values, language, traditions.


Monday, September 20, 2021

Miatta Kawinzi Illuminates Spaces of Connection and Possibility Across Place, Space, and Time

Lineage, cultural hybridity and multiplicity, the liberatory and regenerative potential of softness, and the deep and steady yearning for the reparative are fundamental to the fall 2021 Teiger Mentor in the Arts.


Tuesday, September 7, 2021

Measures of Color

The AAP Alumni archive features artist Stephen Ellis (B.F.A. '73), recalling his time as an art student at Cornell and getting started as an artist in New York City.


Thursday, September 2, 2021

AAP Welcomes New Staff Who Stepped In as Challenges Stepped Up

The college recognizes nine new and recent staff members who stepped into a wide variety of roles since the beginning of the pandemic, a time of extraordinary circumstances and adjustments.


Tuesday, August 24, 2021

New and Renewed: AAP's Fall 2021 Semester

The fall semester at AAP brings renewed energy with a host of new students, faculty, classes, and a welcome return of exhibitions, lectures, teaching, learning, and making at the Ithaca, New York City, and Rome campuses.


Wednesday, July 14, 2021

Stan Bowman (1934–2021), An Artist on the Leading Creative Edge

Photographer, sculptor, painter, and Professor Emeritus Stan Bowman immersed his teaching and creative practice in the digital revolution, bringing a spirit of experimentation and curiosity to his work.


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