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Five members of Digital Media Studies and MAG partnership to promote arts integration and digital equity standing in row, smiling.
The Arts
May 17, 2023 | 09:57 am

Digital Media Studies and the Memorial Art Gallery team up in digital equity project

With a Museum Initiative grant, a joint project of Verizon and NYC Media Lab, the Memorial Art Gallery and recent digital media studies graduates team up to expand the museum’s digital reach.

topics: community engagement, Department of Art and Art History, featured-post-side, Memorial Art Gallery, School of Arts and Sciences, Stephanie Ashenfelder, Undergraduate Program in Digital Media Studies,
Actor playing Susanna in "The Crucible" fixes her costume in a mirror backstage.
The Arts
February 14, 2023 | 09:50 am

Changing the narrative about Blackness on the stage

By partnering with Black actors and artists, the International Theatre Program’s recent productions help give new dimension to marginalized characters.

topics: community engagement, diversity, featured-post-side, Institute for the Performing Arts, International Theatre Program, Nigel Maister, performing arts, School of Arts and Sciences,
two student actors seated on a stage, both looking away from each other.
The Arts
September 27, 2022 | 08:53 am

Sam Chanse play premieres at Sloan Performing Arts Center

Fellowship is the latest production commissioned as part of the International Theatre Program’s New Voice Initiative supporting early-career playwrights

topics: Department of English, Institute for the Performing Arts, International Theater Program, Nigel Maister, performing arts, School of Arts and Sciences,
Laurel Lawson hovers above the stage, arms and wheels lifted, supported by Alice Sheppard who partners her from below. Alice is on her back, lifting Laurel, locking eyes and opening her arms in embrace. They are surrounded by small wood ramps and bathed in cool blue light. Laurel is a white dancer with cropped blue hair and Alice is a multiracial Black woman with short curly hair; their skin, shimmery costumes and chairs reflect the light.
In Photos
September 12, 2022 | 04:40 pm

Disability arts ensemble Kinetic Light performs at the Sloan Performing Arts Center

The internationally recognized ensemble Kinetic Light performed at the Sloan Performing Arts Center as part of the group’s fall 2022 East Coast tour. Using art, technology, design, and dance, the artists create, perform, and teach at the intersections of access, queerness, disability, dance, and race.

topics: diversity, Institute for the Performing Arts, Missy Pfohl Smith, performing arts, Program of Dance and Movement, School of Arts and Sciences, Sloan Performing Arts Center,
Jericho Brown seated in a red chair in a field of flowers.
The Arts
August 31, 2022 | 12:45 pm

Plutzik Reading Series opens 60th anniversary season with Jericho Brown

The Pulitzer Prize–winning poet will give a reading as part of the University of Rochester’s 202–23 Hyam Plutzik Memorial Reading Series—one of the nation’s oldest literary reading series.

topics: Department of English, featured-post-side, Hyam Plutzik, literature, Meliora Weekend, Plutzik Reading Series, School of Arts and Sciences,
student stands beside small circular art prints hanging from strings.
Campus Life
May 5, 2022 | 01:22 pm

Science under the microscope of visual art

An art and geology double major, University of Rochester student Gabrielle Meli brings scientific processes to her art.

topics: Class of 2022, Department of Art and Art History, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, featured-post-side, School of Arts and Sciences,