{"id":117603,"date":"2025-01-14T14:22:03","date_gmt":"2025-01-14T19:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/?post_type=bu-article&p=117603"},"modified":"2025-01-14T14:23:24","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T19:23:24","slug":"fall-2024-highlights","status":"publish","type":"bu-article","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/news\/articles\/2025\/fall-2024-highlights\/","title":{"rendered":"A Semester to Remember: Fall 2024 at CFA"},"content":{"rendered":"\t
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From a University-wide vision for making the arts front and center across BU to revivals of musicals and operas, CFA\u2019s Fall 2024 was a season of artistic brilliance.<\/h4>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n
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Before Boston University’s Spring 2025 semester officially kicks off, join us as we revisit the highlights of Fall 2024 at BU College of Fine Arts. From awe-inspiring performances and revivals of musicals and operas to traveling across the Atlantic and representing BU on the global stage, the CFA community has once again shown its commitment to artistic and academic excellence. Here’s a look back at the events, exhibitions, performances, and milestones that made this semester an unforgettable… and historical one!<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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A new president with the arts close to heart<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

For BU\u2019s 11th president, elevating the presence of the arts on campus is one of Dr. Melissa L. Gilliam\u2019s main goals.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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A new era began at Boston University in 2024 with Dr. Melissa L. Gilliam<\/strong> assuming the role of BU’s 11th president. Dr. Gilliam has described an \u201cambitious vision\u201d to put the arts \u201cfront and center across our campuses.” With a medical and research-focused background, Dr. Gilliam has always been surrounded by the arts. Gilliam’s late father was a renowned abstract painter and her mother, a groundbreaking journalist.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMy own dear father, Sam Gilliam, who was born in Tupelo, Mississippi, in 1933, was inspired by the improvisation of jazz music, the most original of American musical forms,\u201d Gilliam said, \u201cand he transformed painting into sculpture by draping canvases from ceiling to floor and along the outside of buildings, now gracing museums around the world. At times when the logic, beauty, and grace of science fail to convince minds, I can think of nothing more salient, more penetrating, more perfect than art.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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At times when the logic, beauty, and grace of science fail to convince minds, I can think of nothing more salient, more penetrating, more perfect than art.<\/div>