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College of Fine Arts

Photo of Ash Vasquez (CFA’25), sitting on a step between two brick walls. His hand is on his face, and he wears a plaid shirt and jeans.

Student Profile

Meet the Class of 2025: Ash Vasquez

September 8, 2021

Photo of Paul Halpainy (CFA’19) in rock band performance and pedagogy at CFA August 2. He is seated at the drum, and a person with a black t-shirt plays the bass guitar in the right foreground.

Music

For Those About to (Teach) Rock, We Salute You

August 5, 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

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

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

Photo of Terry Everson, the primary instructor of trumpet performance in CFA's School of Music and how son, Peter pose for a photo at their Framingham home on June 19 ,2020. Terry wears a bright blue and red floral shirt and holds a trumpet, leans and looks towards his son who wears a white shirt and holds a trumpet as well.

Music

Father, Son/Teacher, Pupil

June 22, 2020

Composite image of the 2020 Kahn Awards winners; clockwise from left, top: Diana Walsh, Tak-Cheung Hui, Saskia Martinez, Alex Stern, Nicholas Walker, Eric Carey.

Student Awards

2020 Kahn Career Entry Awards Go to Six CFA Graduates

May 20, 2020

Composite image of stills from videos of BU classes being taught remote. In the bottom left, Maura Smith, a College of Communication master lecturer in film, is seen standing at a standing desk. In the top left and bottom right, Yo-EL Cassell, a College of Fine Arts assistant professor of movement, reads from a computer and demonstrates movements. In the top right, students for Yo-EL's class are seen moving in door frames.

Remote & Innovative

The Challenge of Remotely Teaching Classes That Usually Demand Hands-on Learning and Collaboration

May 7, 2020

Gallery view of a Time’s Arrow rehearsal conducted on Zoom. Students sit playing instruments or waiting. Photo courtesy of Rodney Lister

Music

CFA Ensemble Time’s Arrow to End the Year with a Zoom Concert Thursday

April 29, 2020

Illustrations demonstrating the best entry points in the skull for neurosurgeons.

Fine Arts

Accurate Art

March 6, 2020

A portrait photo of Susan Mickey.

Theatre

Susan Mickey Brings a Designer’s Eye to the School of Theatre

February 20, 2020

Ricky Holguin (left) as Willy Wonka, Jamie Leslie as Charlie Bucket, and Neil A. Casey as Grandpa Joe in Wheelock Family Theatre’s production of Roald Dahl’s Willy Wonka

Theatre

Wheelock Family Theatre Opens 39th Season with Roald Dahl’s Willy Wonka

October 24, 2019

Wheelock Family Theatre Opens 39th Season with Roald Dahl’s Willy Wonka