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.
Four Cornell Future Architects Award high school scholars attended AAP’s Introduction to Architecture Summer Program during a shift to virtual instruction.
In the News: The Memorial to Enslaved Laborers was designed by Höweler + Yoon Architecture, the firm of AAP Dean J. Meejin Yoon, in collaboration with historian Mabel O. Wilson.
Morgan Ashcom: Distortions: Recent Works and Fictional Directions in Photography
Untitled #10 (2010), archival pigment print, 24" x 30”.
Morgan Ashcom is an artist and educator living in New York City. Although he lives in a major metropolitan area his work is influenced by the Virginia landscape around the farm where he grew up. His first photobook, Leviathan, emerged from his experience at a remote community in southeast Ohio. While the photographs were made in the rolling hills of Appalachia, Ashcom followed themes of escape and confrontation on the sea suggesting a narrative where these worlds have converged. Since the completion and publication of Leviathan, he has been photographing an ongoing project titled What the Living Carry. Through a fictional and subjective photographic account, What the Living Carry draws on the motif of the forest as a canvas for collective subconscious projections rooted in the literature and archetypes of rural America.
