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College of Fine Arts

Photo: Mina Chung, a young Asian woman wearing a pink floral blouse and brown pants, stands and works under a green canopy on a table.

Graphic Design

2023 BFA Graphic Design Thesis Show on View at 808 Gallery

May 11, 2023

Photo: Summer Sage, played by Michaela Lazarou (CFA’24) does a unique interpretative dance as she holds her arms out and throws her head back towards the ceiling. To her right, behind a colorfully painted kitchen island, stand Candy Baker, played by Katie McRae (CFA’23), and Lil Bub, played by Aidan Close (CFA’23). Both look on in shock and awe.

Arts on Campus

Art House Is BU’s Homegrown Sitcom

May 10, 2023

Photo: A young man wearing a black shirt and shorts works on a large sculpture being displayed in an art gallery.

Exhibitions

Works by BFA Painting, Sculpture, Printmaking Graduates Now on View at Stone Gallery

May 8, 2023

Photo: Two actors sit upon a stage, looking to the left. They are both Black women with curly hair: on the left, sbe has short curly hair and is wearing a pink shirt with a floral maxi skirt. On the right, she has long curly hair, is significantly younger than the woman on the left and is wearing a prep school uniform. In between them is a pile of stacked books.

Theatre

Wheelock Family Theatre’s Matilda, the Musical Nominated for Four Elliot Norton Awards

May 5, 2023

Photo: A Black man adjusts a small painting on the wall for his MFA thesis exhibition. The painting on his left is a curvy canvas (looks like an outline of the number 8) with a pink background and a nude woman on the front. The top painting is of a landscape with houses in the same form as the one on the left.

Exhibitions

BU Art Galleries Play Host to 2023 MFA Painting and Sculpture, Graphic Design Thesis Exhibition Shows

April 6, 2023

Photo: Jay Eddy (CGS’23) (left), the writer, composer and performer of Alligator-A-Phobia in 3D!, clowning around with director Shamus (CFA’23) on set. A woman with red hair and wearing a purple jump suit is shown mid-air as she jumps with a large, blow-up alligator in her arms. To he right, a man with dark brown curly hair and wearing a teal shirt and jeans peaks out from behind a set piece window. He has puppet alligators on his hands as looks to the woman to his left.

Theatre

Alligator-a-Phobia in 3-D! at Boston Playwrights’ Theatre Chomps on Our Anxieties

April 6, 2023

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

Music

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

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May 2, 2022

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