The Cornell Council for the Arts (CCA) is supporting 35 projects that will be presented on campus this academic year. Through its Individual Grant Program, the CCA awarded 15 grants of $2,500 each to Cornell faculty, departments and programs, and 20 grants of $1,000 each to undergraduate and graduate students and student organizations. Recipients were selected by a panel of faculty in the arts.
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.
The CCA is a supporter of student organizations that help sustain a thriving creative community on campus. Student groups receiving grants were: Cornell Taiko (Yamatai drum ensemble); Cornell Fashion Collective, affiliated with Fiber Science & Apparel Design (FSAD); the Cornell Chapter of the Society for the Promotion of Indian Classical Music and Culture Amongst Youth; Cornell Contemporary Chamber Players (Department of Music); and the History of Art Majors鈥 Society.
Among individual student projects, 鈥淩esistance Bands,鈥 by art student Richard Zimmerman, MFA 鈥18, will connect different architectural spaces using simple sculptural forms made from materials associated with the built environment and the human body. It will be installed in early 2018 in Tjaden Hall鈥檚 Experimental Gallery. Zimmerman says the aim of the project 鈥渋s to cause the viewers to question their understanding of the built environment while providing a playful sculptural environment.鈥
Grants to individual students also were awarded to Caitlin Kane, Jayme Kilburn and Erin Stoneking, doctoral students in performing and media arts; graduate student Kelsie Doty, fiber science and apparel design; Charisse Foo, B.Arch. 鈥18; Jingyang Liu, M.Arch.II 鈥15, M.S. 鈥19, and Bradley Nathanson, B.Arch. 鈥18, architecture; Sasha Phyars-Burgess and Gabriel Ramos, both MFA 鈥18, art; graduate student Yen Vu, Romance studies; doctoral student Mackenzie Pierce, music; graduate student Mariaenrica Giannuzzi, German studies; Dan Chamberlain 鈥18, interdisciplinary studies; and Sahana Natesan 鈥20, biological sciences.
Faculty members and academic departments and programs also seek CCA funds to further their individual work and projects, but primarily sought support for performances and exhibitions that will bring visiting musicians, composers, playwrights, directors, writers, filmmakers, dancers and visual artists to campus to work with their students and departments.
Assistant professor of performing and media arts was awarded funds to support her collaborative project 鈥淔rom Land to Land,鈥 a documentary/narrative video installation exploring the struggles of immigrants in the United States since the beginning of the Trump administration. Rogers envisions the project 鈥渨ill create a textured and complex look at what we鈥檝e come to see as our new normal regarding immigration.鈥
Grants to individual faculty also were awarded to Michael Ashkin, Department of Art; Mary Woods, Department of Architecture; Denise Green, Fiber Science & Apparel Design; , , and Department of Music; and , and , Department of Performing and Media Arts.
Grant recipients also include the Departments of Performing and Media Arts, for 鈥淭he Caucasian Chalk Circle,鈥 Sept. 21-23; Art, for an annual MFA program student exhibition in New York City; and Music, for a 鈥淜len猫ngan鈥 gamelan concert and a performance of Bach鈥檚 鈥淪t. Matthew Passion.鈥 The latter, coming in May to Bailey Hall, will be a collaboration with professional instrumentalists and vocal soloists.
鈥淥ften hailed as the greatest musical composition in the Western tradition, 鈥楽t. Matthew Passion鈥 has not been performed at Cornell 鈥 or anywhere in Ithaca 鈥 in over 60 years,鈥 said assistant professor of music Robert Isaacs.
For more information on grant opportunities or dates and venues for all CCA-supported events and projects, visit , email Erin Emerson, program coordinator or call 607-255-7274.
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