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.
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.
Experts spoke on "Racism and the Future of Memorials," a webinar organized by Esra Akcan, the Michael A. McCarthy Associate Professor of Architectural Theory.
Olalekan Jeyifous
Olalekan Jeyifous (B.Arch. '00) is a Nigerian-American visual artist. He has exhibited artwork at MoMA, the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Vitra Design Museum, and the Guggenheim in Bilbao. He received a fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts and grants from the New York State Council on the Arts and the Brooklyn Arts Council. In addition to his extensive exhibition history, he has created several large-scale public installations for venues including the Starbucks located in the Barclay's Arena (Brooklyn), the Twitter headquarters in Manhattan, and he recently completed a 50-foot sculpture for the 2017 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.
Jeyifous has attended artist residencies at The MacDowell Colony, Headlands Center for the Arts, the Socrates Sculpture Park, and is currently a participant in the Drawing Center's Open Sessions program. He received a bachelor of architecture from AAP in 2000.
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Classes (Selected)
- ARCH 4509 Special Topics in Visual Representation: Divinity and the DeliThis course addresses pertinent issues relative to the subject of Visual Representation. The instructor(s) of the course are drawn from the permanent and visiting faculty who may either broadly or narrowly define the course's scope and content. For precise content please see the Architecture Department webpage .
Exhibitions and Presentations (Selected)
- Where Do We Stand?, The Drawing Center, New York (2017)
- Race and Revolution: Still Separate / Still Unequal, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn (2017)
- 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair, Pioneer Works, Brooklyn (2017)
