BU Tanglewood Institute: Igniting the Power of the Collective
Since 2015, BU Tanglewood Institute has been building a national network of talent development partners. These organizations, like ours, are anti-racist, and many are specifically committed to building...
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BU Tanglewood Institute: From the Director’s Desk | September 2020
loading slideshow...1 2 3 Photo Credit Stratton McCrady One of the key tools of building resilience is a sense of gratitude and appreciation, and if there was ever a time we need resilience, now is it!...
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Squinch Magazine on Supporting the Collegiate Art Community
Cover of the latest issue of the magazine. Photo by Cassie Sim. Four friends who bonded at Orientation, the First-Year Student Outreach Project (FYSOP), and in CFA classes, discovered that they shared...
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Bostonia feature: Alum Will Lyman Is the Voice of Frontline
This article was originally published in Bostonia on September 22, 2020. By Joel Brown The pandemic means hard times for a lot of actors, but Will Lyman is one of the lucky ones, as he’s also a...
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The Brink feature: Why Policing the Way Voices Sound Has to Stop
Christine Hamel says that along with training voices more equitably, society needs to retrain how we listen. Photo by Tara Lynn Sen, courtesy of Christine Hamel This article was originally published in...
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BU Today feature: Another Emmy for Uzo Aduba (CFA’05)
Photo courtesy of Invision for the Television Academy/AP This article originally appeared in BU Today on September 22, 2020. Uzo Aduba picked up (figuratively) her third Emmy at the 72nd Emmy Awards...
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Community Check-Ins
Hosted by Ruthie Jean, Associate Dean of Academic Programs and Enrollment, the CFA Community Check-Ins are an opportunity for students to share their experiences and connect with the College. We are...
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Boston Globe feature: In Boston theater, a growing group of Black leaders...
CFA Dean Harvey Young. Photo by SUZANNE KREITER/GLOBE STAFF This article was originally published in The Boston Globe on September 24, 2020. By Don Aucoin As Harvey Young was preparing to move from...
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Joan & Edgar Booth Theatre and CFA Production Center Recognized by AIA New...
Photo by Eric Laignel The AIA New England recognized the Boston University Joan & Edgar Booth Theatre and College of Fine Arts Production Center with an Honor Award during their virtual awards...
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School of Music High Notes: September news
Welcome to the inaugural edition of High Notes: News from CFA School of Music. High Notes is intended as a monthly information column that highlights the high notes achieved by our students. Feel free...
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CFA Alums Uzo Aduba, Russell Hornsby & Alfre Woodard in Conversation
The BU Alumni Weekend 2020 discussion facilitated by Dean Harvey Young (top right) included CFA alums Russell Hornsby (top left), Alfre Woodard (bottom left), and Uzo Aduba (bottom right). With BU...
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Faculty Feature: Ken Amis, Tuba
Ken Amis, Lecturer in Music, Tuba. Photos by Steve Emery, Terence Kirchgessner World-renowned composer-performer Ken Amis (Lecturer in Music, Tuba) reflects on his journey to the tuba, the adrenaline...
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CFA Students Fill Comm Ave with Pops of Art, and Joy
In a CFA ArtPop on September 16, movement students and visual artists collaborated on an exploration of gesture and movement on Booth Theatre Plaza. Photo by Cydney Scott, BU Photography 2020 ArtPops...
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MFA Painting Grads Bring First Exhibition to Renovated Art Gallery
New doors, new walls, new light-sensitive windows opening the space up to Commonwealth Ave. The Stone Gallery at Boston University Art Galleries is re-opened to the BU community after a year offline...
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BU Today Feature: BU Faculty on How They’re Faring with Learn from Anywhere
Jill Grimes (front) with her TA Kaitlyn Malinowski (CFA’21) in Grimes’ Painting II course. Photo by Cydney Scott, BU Photography This article originally appeared in BU Today on October 13, 2020. In...
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Alum Michael Medico Talks How to Break into TV Directing
CFA alumni Fay Wolf and Michael Medico discuss breaking into the world of television directing. TV directing: Getting and Keeping Your Foot in the Door Acclaimed television director and CFA alum...
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BU Today POV Feature: It’s Time to Change How We Choose Monuments and Statues
Artistic rendering of “The Embrace” by Hank Willis Thomas with MASS Design Group This article originally appeared in BU Today on October 16, 2020. POV: Dean Harvey Young With the exception of Seneca...
View ArticleFrom BU to America’s Got Talent: CFA Grad Shifts Perspectives through Music
From being awarded a Boston Music Award for the Best Inspirational Artist of the Year to performing at the GRAMMYs with Alicia Keys, Herbie Hancock, Lang Lang, Josh Groban, Andrea Bocelli, and John...
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BU Opera students curate “A Tribute to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg”
What does a highly-selective, performance-based training program for operatic artists do in the midst of a pandemic? Innovate. Embarking on another year after a season cut short by Covid-19, Boston...
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Students and Alums Move Forward in The Metropolitan Opera National Council...
Photo courtesy of the Metropolitan Opera We are thrilled to announce that a number of students and alums from Boston University College of Fine Arts School of Music, Boston University Opera Institute,...
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