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Dawoud Bey and Karen Irvine discuss Birmingham, Alabama, 1963: Dawoud Bey/Black Star, currently at the Museum of Contemporary Photography.
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Photography Professor and MacArthur Fellow Dawoud Bey is featured for his rare photographs of artist David Hammons, which will go on display in a special section at Frieze.
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FORBES
Inside Smino’s Plans To Make Timeless Music, Scale His Business And Leave A Legacy
Business and Entrepreneurship alum Christopher Smith, who performs under the name Smino, discusses his music career.
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THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
Lena Waithe, Gina Prince-Bythewood Talk Shortcomings of Hollywood Diversity Programs, Building a Mentoring Network
Television alum Lena Waithe ’06 and her former boss director Gina Prince-Bythewood discuss their views on mentorship and Hollywood diversity programs.
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VARIETY
Sony Pictures Animation Taps Illumination’s Alison Mann for Creative and Strategy VP Role
Media Arts Management alum Alison Mann ’04 has been named vice president of creative and strategy at Sony Pictures Animations.
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DEADLINE
Daytime Emmys Creative Arts Awards: Young And The Restless, Sesame Street Among Winners
Alum Andrzej Warzocha MFA ’08, who was part of the inaugural Music Composition for the Screen MFA class, won a Daytime Emmy as part of the sound team for The Young and the Restless.
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CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
She Disrupted the Book Promotion Business
Creative Writing alum Dana Kaye has grown influence with tradition-bound New York publishers by creating ways of marketing new titles to youthful audiences.
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COLUMBIA JOURNALISM REVIEW
Can Report for America Build Trust in Local News? A View From Two Communities
Austin Talks, a faculty-advised student-run journalism project, is included in this article about local communication ecologies and their impact on the communities they serve.
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CHICAGO TRIBUNE
Driehaus Fashion Awards Celebrate Student Design
Fashion Studies students Molly Quinn and Carlos Osuna took home the first and third place awards for the 18th annual Driehaus Awards for Fashion Excellence competition. More coverage at Windy City Times.
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ART AND EDUCATION
2019 Art and Art History MFA Thesis Exhibition
Columbia’s Fine Arts MFA Thesis Exhibition is featured.
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Manifest Urban Arts Festival
Manifest, Columbia’s annual creative arts festival in the South Loop, features hundreds of free public programs with live music, dance, and art exhibitions—all created and curated by more than 2,000 student artists. Rising hip-hop star Kweku Collins will headline the festival at 6 p.m. The day-long event will span the Wabash Arts Corridor from 9th to 11th Streets.
Friday, May 10
12:45-9 p.m.
Manifest Main Street
Wabash Ave. between 9th and 11th
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Lecture in Photography: Rebecca Senf
The Museum of Contemporary Photography will host a Lecture in Photography featuring visiting scholar Rebecca Senf. Senf is the Chief Curator at the Center for Creative Photography and the Norton Family Curator of Photography, a joint appointment between the Center for Creative Photography and the Phoenix Art Museum.
Wednesday, May 8
6 p.m.
Ferguson Lecture Hall
600 S. Michigan Ave.
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