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College of Fine Arts

Photo of Sam Weinberger sitting on top of an orange home depot bucket, wearing white hat and t-shirt and shorts, in front of his recently painted mural at at St. Elizabeth Medical Center, which features colorful portraits of staff.

Painting

Artist Sam Weinberger’s Latest Project Pays Tribute to Front-Line Workers

July 30, 2021

Photo of CFA SVA Director Dana Clancy in a red button down looking towards the camera as she holds a painted page of the NYTimes in a gallery of her work.

Visual Arts

Two Ways of Exploring Visual Narrative

July 21, 2021

Maria Ordoñez and Manon Michel sitting next to one another smiling. A white video button is overlayed.

Commencement 2021

There for Each Other

May 16, 2021

Photo of three paintings by Cailyn Masson (CFA’21) on view in the BFA Thesis Exhibition. The paintings are of various sizes and feature stripes of pastel colors that resemble sunsets.

Fine Arts

BFA Thesis Exhibition Offers Mesmerizing Look at Seniors’ Work

May 7, 2021

Zoom screenshot including playwright, screenwriter, and actor Tarell McCraney (center square), who visited the African American Theatre class taught by Harvey Young, dean of the College of Fine Arts (top center).

Theatre

Zooming in to African American Theater

May 5, 2021

Still from the movie Moonstruck in which Dukakis, left, and Cher, converse at the kitchen table.

Obituaries

Oscar Winner, BU Alum Olympia Dukakis Dies at 89

May 3, 2021

Photo of Elaine Vaan Hogue (CFA’97), left, and Valyn Turner (CFA’23) play Grammy Sophie and her granddaughter Esme in the Wheelock Family Theatre virtual production of Walking the Tightrope. Turner wears red overalls and a stripped rainbow shirt, and Hogue wears a blue button down and sits at a table with a blue and yellow checkered tablecloth.

Theatre

Wheelock Family Theatre’s Walking the Tightrope a Story of Love and Loss as Experienced by Two Generations

April 30, 2021

This year’s MFA Thesis Painting Exhibit, now on view at the Stone Gallery, includes 34 works by 17 students, including these two untitled works by Danielle Fretwell (CFA’21).

Fine Arts

MFA Painting Thesis Exhibition Highlights the Work of 17 Talented 2021 Grads

April 16, 2021

Podcasts

Fair Admission Podcast Advocates for Reform of This College Process

April 6, 2021

Photo of Jenna Benoit (CFA’21) helping install part of this year’s MFA Graphic Design Thesis Exhibition, The Printer Is Broken, on view through April 6 at CFA’s Faye G., Jo, and James Stone Gallery. She is seen with a hammer from behind, working to hang up a piece of paper that says "the printer is broken" amongst other colorful papers.

Fine Arts

2021 MFA Graphic Design Thesis Exhibition on View through April 6

March 30, 2021

Photo of CFA’s David Snyder, in a blue long sleeve and black face mask, at the 2021 MFA Thesis Sculpture Exhibit. He stands in front of an untitled piece by Aris Hu (MFA’21), which consists of a structure made of pipes that contains different sizes of ladders and stools.

Fine Arts

Stone Gallery Hosts MFA Sculpture Thesis Exhibition

March 10, 2021

Composite image of two portraits of artists and researchers Joel Christian Gill (’04) (left) and Charles Suggs (’20). Gill wears a light striped suit jacket and smiles in front of a bright blue background. Suggs wears a black V-neck shirt and glasses and smiles slightly on a light blue background.

Visual Arts

Using Their Work to Tell Stories from Black History

February 10, 2021

Photo of a set in 2017 production of Cabaret that Pajoufar worked on. It is brightly lit with pink and purple lighting. One person stands center stage while a group of people behind them lay flat on their bellies facing away from the audience. The set looks like the inside of a shop.

Theatre

Talking Set Design With Afsoon Pajoufar (CFA’19)

December 16, 2020

Photo of Anna Valdez in a cheeta print tied crop top and black pants standing amidst the plants and canvases of her studio. One huge canvas is seen behind her on an easel. Each canvas is filed with paintings of plants and statues, and bright color.

Visual Arts

Objects of Her Affection

December 16, 2020

Photo of muralist Lena McCarthy standing in a red long sleeve shirt and jeans in front of a pair of doors on a Victorian firehouse that she painted with a large mural of various shades of blue.

Visual Arts

Muralist Lena McCarthy Transforms Outdoor Spaces with Her Colorful, Organic Style

December 16, 2020

A portrait photo of Adrienne Elise Tarver standing in front of one of her paintings

Alumni

Mining the Past, Mirroring the Present

December 14, 2020

A painting of the legs of a woman underwater as she kicks along, her legs reflected on the sand. The water around her is in shades of dark and light blue. She wears white bottoms.

Visual Arts

Gallery: Adrienne Elise Tarver (CFA’07)

November 20, 2020

Graphic novel panels illustrated by Ajay Ramnarine. On the left, 4 panels illustrated in black show a young man enter a kitchen with a question mark above his head. He looks at the oven and realizes that it’s 8:55am. A panel then zooms in on the shock in his eyes, framed by thick black glasses, and underneath it says “F-f-f-five minutes!?!“. The panel to the right makes the young man look like a larger-than-life super hero on fire, and the text reads: “Just enough time… to make breakfast!”

Graphic Novels

Action. Racism. Hope. Students Show Their COVID-19 Lives in Graphic Narratives

August 31, 2020

Photo of Sabrina Scotti (CFA’20) in a light blue dress holding Katamari Damacy REROLL, one of the children’s video games she studied as part of her an Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program–funded research into whether games use diverse music styles to further music education. She smiles and bushes are seen in the background.

Music

Do Children’s Media Serve Up a Properly Diverse Musical Diet?

August 27, 2020

Portrait of Erika B. Hess (’09), host of the podcast I Like Your Work, standing with a microphone between her fingers against a wall. A deep blue shadow silhouette is seen behind her.

Arts & Culture

On the Art of Storytelling

August 12, 2020

On the Art of Storytelling