The Arts
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.
Intimacy directing is making a difference on stage and beyond
In Rochester’s International Theatre Program, intimacy directing is playing a growing role.
When fictional children become stranger things
Teaching an undergraduate class on ‘dangerous’ children in literature inspired English professor Kenneth Gross’s latest book.
Questions of character and motives drive professor’s new novel
In Stephen Schottenfeld’s This Room Is Made of Noise, a down-on-his-luck handyman befriends an elderly widow of means. What’s a reader to think?
Music therapy finds its rhythm at the Medical Center
In conjunction with Eastman Performing Arts Medicine, the Medical Center has helped thousands of patients heal, recover, and find peace through music.
Mellon grant supports a close-up on close-ups
A Rochester research team is part of an inter-institutional project to document the history of the close-up, one of film and television’s most powerful techniques.
The ‘ideal of what a humanities professor ought to be’
English professor Russell Peck is being remembered as much for his eminent medieval scholarship as his excellence in teaching.
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.
NSF grant supports project leveraging AI for music production
An interdisciplinary team of researchers is using artificial intelligence to empower musicians to produce and disseminate their art more effectively.
Is gospel music losing its Black roots?
Musicologist Cory Hunter identifies a notable contemporary shift in the century-old musical form.