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Photo: Joel Christian Gill teaches a new MFA program in Visual Narrative on November 7, 2022. A black man wearing a short-sleeved red collared shirt gesticulates with arms outstretched as he speaks to a student sitting in front of an electric drawing tablet. Other students can be seen in the bright classroom working on similar tablets.

Academics

Comics Artist Joel Christian Gill Launches BU’s New Visual Narrative MFA Degree

February 27, 2023

Photo: Two people are looking at framed artwork and comic pages in a gallery. The individual on the left is wearing a tan jacket, a white canvas bag, denim pants, sneakers, and a scarf in their hair. The individual on the right is wearing an all black ensemble with a black fedora.

Gallery

New Stone Gallery Show Makes the Case That Comics Aren’t Just for Kids, but for Everyone

February 21, 2023

Blog cover photo featuring geometric shapes with images of musicians including: Miranda Rae, Lola Brooke, Alexis Peart, Libianca, Rozime Lindsey, and Fridayy

Music

Rising Stars: 6 Black Musicians You Need to Know

February 8, 2023

Photo: CFA professor, Josephine Halvorson poses for a photo. A white woman with shoulder length brown hair and wearing an olive green collared shirt smiles and poses next to a window.

University Lecture

Artist Josephine Halvorson Is Getting Up Close and Personal for Annual University Lecture

November 8, 2022

Andrew Bearden Brown (CFA’22) plays the Stage Manager in Our Town, an opera based on Thornton Wilder’s Pulitzer-winning play, one of this year’s Fringe Festival offerings. Our Town runs Friday, October 28, and Saturday, October 29, in the CFA Concert Hall. Photo by Cydney Scott

Arts & Culture

Curtains Open on 2022 CFA Fringe Festival

October 20, 2022

Mishka Yarovoy (CFA’23), who plays Oskar, the bullied boy next door, with Leah Hohhauser (CFA’24) in a scene from Let the Right One In. The two actors are close friends.

Arts & Culture

There Will Be Blood at the Booth Theatre for Halloween

October 19, 2022

Edward Avedisian (left) and Aram V. Chobanian at the celebration announcing the Aram V. Chobanian & Edward Avedisian School of Medicine on September 29, 2022. Photo by Dave Green

Giving

The Lifelong Friendship behind Astonishing $100 Million Gift to BU’s Medical School

September 29, 2022

Photo of Nora Kempner (center) a 17-year-old high school student from Medway, Mass., who is enrolled in the BU Summer Theatre Institute’s design program. Kempner is a young White woman with wavy hair, pulled back, wearing a black t-shirt and blue shorts. She sits at a table with lighting controls and a screen and smiles as she shows her lighting scene design with classmates. Other students can be seen seated behind her in the darkened room.

Theater

CFA Summer Program Gives High Schoolers an Intro to College-Level Theater

August 3, 2022

BUTI student Dorian Parker stands outdoors in a black shirt with glasses on

Arts & Culture

Bringing Different Voices to BU Tanglewood Institute

July 20, 2022

photo of André de Quadros, choir director and teacher of music in the BU prison education program, looking at the camera with a stoic expression. He wears black, rectangular glasses and a light blue collared shirt.

Helping Refugee Children

With Singing Our Stories Project, CFA’s André de Quadros Will Bring Music Workshops to Migrant and Refugee Children

June 14, 2022

Mishka Yarovoy (CFA’23) stands barefoot centerstage in the scene where his two characters meet in SpeakEasy Stage’s production of Matthew Lopez’s Tony Award–winning drama, The Inheritance. Photo by Nile Scott Studios

Theatre

A Standout at SpeakEasy Stage Company

June 1, 2022

Photo of Brianna Howard (CFA’22) standing in front of her work at the BFA Thesis Art Exhibit at Stone Gallery May 5. Brianna is white woman with blonde hair; she smiles with her hands in her pockets, wears a green jacket and black plants. From left, they are named Reposition, Overlapped, Proximity, Talking with the Shadows, and Remnant. The prints are mostly gray and tan colors and are abstract in nature, featuring long curving lines.

Fine Arts

2022 BFA Thesis Show a Dazzling Display of Graduating Seniors’ Work

May 9, 2022

Photo the cast and crew, including artist in residence Paolo Scoppola, middle, of Exit the King running a tech rehearsal April 27 at CFA’s Studio One. A large golden throne is seen center stage; behind it, a wall that reads "EXIT THE KING" in blue and is splattered with red paint. At right, an actor, Declan Schliesmann (CFA’22), dressed as a king with red and gold robes sits and practices his lines, script in hand. Scoppola, in black pants, crimson shirt, and a face mask is seen at left.

Theater Technology

Exit the King, and Enter Random Actor

May 3, 2022

Listen Now

How Do I Get a Job after College?

May 2, 2022

Photo of Chen Luo (MFA’22), left, helping associate professor Christopher Sleboda secure Luo’s piece, Radio Exercise, to a wooden frame for the MFA Graphic Design Thesis show April 7 in Stone Gallery. Luo has long brown hair and wears a gray sweatshirt and nike sneakers, Sleboda wears a black sweatshirt, a face mask and kneels opposite Luo. The piece features figures in red, with smaller black figures inside them, surrounded by repeated black text on a yellow background. Other pieces from the exhibition, including a large blue piece with a repeated handbag pattern in pink, are seen behind them.

Graphic Design

Frame/Work/Site: 2022 Graphic Design MFA Thesis Exhibition Opens

April 14, 2022

Photo of CFA graduate student, Eva Lewis, leaning against a white table covered with paint and paint mixing tools. She is a young white woman with long red hair and bangs, and wears round glasses and a green sweater. Behind her, other student's paintings hang on the wall. White video play button is overlaid.

Fine Arts

Artist Eva Lewis (CFA’22) on Her Approach to Painting

April 9, 2022

Photo taken from behind James Burton, Director of Orchestral Activities and Master Lecturer, Music during

College of Fine Arts

School of Music’s 150th Anniversary Opens on a Big Stage

April 4, 2022

Photo of Moxin “Sunny” Chen (CFA’22) installing her vinyl-and-paint collage piece, “Yesterday Is Passed, Tomorrow Has Yet to Come". A young, Asian woman bends down and adjusts a large yellow blob that features near many other various colored blobs in the exhibit.

Fine Arts

2022 MFA Painting and Sculpture Thesis Exhibition Now at Stone Gallery

March 23, 2022

Photo taken from behind Theo Tyson, the Penny Vinik Curator of Fashion Arts at the MFA, regarding the work on display at Life Altering: Selections from a Kansas City Collection, particularly Ebony G. Patterson’s II piece Trees in a Forest. Tyson is a tall, young man of color with his hair pulled up, dressed in black and wearing a black backpack.

Visual Arts

Life Altering: Selections from a Kansas City Collection Celebrates Diverse Artists

February 7, 2022

Portrait of Harvey Young, a middle-aged Black man. He wears a blue quarter zip sweater and smiles. He leans against a wall with beams running parallel to the ground.

Accolades

Harvey Young Named This Year’s American Society for Theatre Research Distinguished Theater Scholar

November 9, 2021

Harvey Young Named This Year’s American Society for Theatre Research Distinguished Theater Scholar