Upcoming events
7:00pm - 8:00pm
Fine Arts, Room 146, 4400 Vestal Pkwy E, , NY 13902, USA
As part of the SOAR festival of the Arts: bing]LO — ’s Laptop Orchestra — presents an open studio of new collaboratively crafted compositions. Focusing on live electronic performance, the group brings together notated composition, improvisation, and sound art.
7:30pm - 9:30pm
Grand Corridor and Memorial Courtyard (FA Building)
Festival of the Arts 2025!
Art & Design Senior Exhibition Opening | Rosefsky Gallery
Cinema Reels (playing on TV with headphones provided)
Cinema Senior Thesis Show | FA 258
Design and Technical Theatre Students Showcase | FA 243
Hybrid Art Workshop & Art Co-op Workshop | BU Art Museum Lobby
{workshop supplies provided | throw darts for free Art co-op swag (shirts, stickers, and tote bags), first-come first-serve basis}
Jazz Trio
Latin Dance Performance
Motion Visuals on the Tower | @ Library Tower
Musical Theatre
Opera
Student Theatre Improv Workshop
T-shirt Screenprinting (bring your own or use ours -> green t-shirts will be available in limited sizes and quantities)
Join us for the 2nd Festival of the Arts kickoff 7:30-9:30 p.m. on Wednesday, May 7 in the Grand Corridor and Memorial Courtyard of the Arts Building!
We will have performances and visual art from our departments, with a wide variety of live music, free food, cinema in a truck, screen-printing your own t-shirts, theatre, animations on buildings, and much more, all in and around the grand corridor.
岹,May 9 we return for a long-form experience, with works from our departments throughout the arts building! A great opportunity to explore the work our students have been creating and enjoy time together in the Arts Building.
*Schedule subject to change!
May 7th | 7:30-9:30 p.m. | Grand Corridor, Memorial Courtyard, and BU Art Museum (FA Building), unless otherwise noted
Main Reception Food and efreshments will be served
Art & Design Senior Exhibition Opening | Rosefsky Gallery
Cinema Reels (playing on TV with headphones provided)
Cinema Senior Thesis Show | FA 258
Design and Technical Theatre Students Showcase | FA 243
Hybrid Art Workshop & Art Co-op Workshop | BU Art Museum Lobby
{workshop supplies provided | throw darts for free Art co-op swag (shirts, stickers, and tote bags), first-come first-serve basis}
Jazz Trio
Latin Dance Performance
Motion Visuals on the Tower | @ Library Tower
Musical Theatre
Opera
Student Theatre Improv Workshop
T-shirt Screenprinting (bring your own or use ours -> green t-shirts will be available in limited sizes and quantities)
Note: All events are tentative and subject to change. Attendees are encouraged to check for updates closer to the event date. All events at the School of the Arts building (FA- Fine Arts in the map) unless otherwise noted.
3:00pm - 9:00pm
FA Building, Peace Quad & LH 6
Festival of the Arts 2025!
Art & Design Open Studios
3-9 p.m. | Grand Corridor, 1st, 2nd, and 3rd floors of FA Building
Art & Design Senior Exhibition
3-9 p.m. | Rosefsky Gallery
Poetpalooza (formerly Poet's Cafe): Poetry Reading and Short Film Screening
3-5 p.m. | Casadesus Hall
Pop-ins: poems / Shakespeare monologues / haikus / contemporary monologues
3-4 p.m. | @ other events
Steel Drum Band
4-4:30 p.m. | Peace Quad
Cinema Student Film Show & Poetry Reading
4:30-6:30 p.m. | LH-6
Design and Technical Theatre Students Showcase
4:30-6 p.m. | FA 143
Music, Theatre, and Creative Writing Reception (Food and refreshments will be served)
4:30-5:30 p.m. | Watters lobby
Word of Mouth Excerpts (Music & Creative Writing)
5:30-6:15 p.m. | Casadesus Hall
Art & Design Student Award Ceremony
6-6:30 p.m. | Rosefsky Gallery
Cinema Reception (Food and refreshments will be served)
6:30-8 p.m. | LH B89
Musical Theatre Voice Recital
6-8 p.m. | Studio B (FA 196)
Note: All events are tentative and subject to change. Attendees are encouraged to check for updates closer to the event date. All events at the School of the Arts building (FA- Fine Arts in the map) unless otherwise noted.
Join us for the 2nd Festival of the Arts kickoff 7:30-9:30 p.m. on Wednesday, May 7 in the Grand Corridor and Memorial Courtyard of the Arts Building!
We will have performances and visual art from our departments, with a wide variety of live music, free food, cinema in a truck, screen-printing your own t-shirts, theatre, animations on buildings, and much more, all in and around the grand corridor.
岹,May 9 we return for a long-form experience, with works from our departments throughout the arts building! A great opportunity to explore the work our students have been creating and enjoy time together in the Arts Building.
*Schedule subject to change!
May 9th | 3-9 p.m. | FA Building & LH 6
Art & Design Open Studios
3-9 p.m. | Grand Corridor, 1st, 2nd, and 3rd floors of FA Building
Art & Design Senior Exhibition
3-9 p.m. | Rosefsky Gallery
Poetpalooza (formerly Poet's Cafe): Poetry Reading and Short Film Screening
3-5 p.m. | Casadesus Hall
Pop-ins: poems / Shakespeare monologues / haikus / contemporary monologues
3-4 p.m. | @ other events
Steel Drum Band
4-4:30 p.m. | Peace Quad
Cinema Student Film Show & Poetry Reading
4:30-6:30 p.m. | LH-6
Design and Technical Theatre Students Showcase
4:30-6 p.m. | FA 143
Music, Theatre, and Creative Writing Reception (Food and refreshments will be served)
4:30-5:30 p.m. | Watters lobby
Word of Mouth Excerpts (Music & Creative Writing)
5:30-6:15 p.m. | Casadesus Hall
Art & Design Student Award Ceremony
6-6:30 p.m. | Rosefsky Gallery
Cinema Reception (Food and refreshments will be served)
6:30-8 p.m. | LH B89
Musical Theatre Voice Recital
6-8 p.m. | Studio B (FA 196)
Note: All events are tentative and subject to change. Attendees are encouraged to check for updates closer to the event date. All events at the School of the Arts building (FA- Fine Arts in the map) unless otherwise noted.
6:00pm - 7:30pm
Online
Harpur Palate Issue 24.1 Launch
Friday, May 9, 6pm - 7:30pm
Online
This event will celebrate the new issue of BU's graduate-student-led literary magazine Harpur Palate's new issue with readings by the winners of the Harpur Palate Prize for Nonfiction and the John Garner Award for Fiction as well as the guest judge of each prize, Lily Dancyger and Marjorie Celona.
Friday, May 9, 6pm - 7:30pm
Online
This event will celebrate the new issue of BU's graduate-student-led literary magazine Harpur Palate's new issue with readings by the winners of the Harpur Palate Prize for Nonfiction and the John Garner Award for Fiction as well as the guest judge of each prize, Lily Dancyger and Marjorie Celona.
12:00pm - 4:00pm
Art Museum, 4400 Vestal Pkwy E, , NY 13901, USA
Monuments: Commemoration and Controversy
Organized by The New York Historical
February 27–June 14, 2025
T-S Noon-4 p.m. | TR Noon-7 p.m.
Main galleries | Free Admission
The Art Museum presents Monuments: Commemoration and Controversy, organized by The New York Historical, on view February 27 to June 14, 2025. The exhibition explores public monuments and their representations as points of debate over national identity, politics, and race. Monuments offers a historical foundation for understanding recent controversies, featuring fragments of a torn-down statue of King George III, a replica of a bulldozed monument by Harlem Renaissance sculptor Augusta Savage, and a maquette of New York City’s first public monument to a Black woman (Harriet Tubman), among other objects. The exhibition reveals how monument-making and monument-breaking have long shaped American life as public statues have been celebrated, attacked, protested, altered, and removed.
Monuments: Commemoration and Controversy is curated by Wendy Nālani E. Ikemoto, Vice President and Chief Curator at The New York Historical. The exhibition is supported by the Terra Foundation for American Art. Additional support is provided at by the Office of the Provost, the Division of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, the Harpur College Dean’s Office, the Fund for Excellence, the Kaschak Institute for Social Justice for Women and Girls, and Rebecca Moshief and Harris Tilevitz ’78.
Organized by The New York Historical
February 27–June 14, 2025
T-S Noon-4 p.m. | TR Noon-7 p.m.
Main galleries | Free Admission
The Art Museum presents Monuments: Commemoration and Controversy, organized by The New York Historical, on view February 27 to June 14, 2025. The exhibition explores public monuments and their representations as points of debate over national identity, politics, and race. Monuments offers a historical foundation for understanding recent controversies, featuring fragments of a torn-down statue of King George III, a replica of a bulldozed monument by Harlem Renaissance sculptor Augusta Savage, and a maquette of New York City’s first public monument to a Black woman (Harriet Tubman), among other objects. The exhibition reveals how monument-making and monument-breaking have long shaped American life as public statues have been celebrated, attacked, protested, altered, and removed.
Monuments: Commemoration and Controversy is curated by Wendy Nālani E. Ikemoto, Vice President and Chief Curator at The New York Historical. The exhibition is supported by the Terra Foundation for American Art. Additional support is provided at by the Office of the Provost, the Division of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, the Harpur College Dean’s Office, the Fund for Excellence, the Kaschak Institute for Social Justice for Women and Girls, and Rebecca Moshief and Harris Tilevitz ’78.
12:00pm - 4:00pm
Art Museum, 4400 Vestal Pkwy E, , NY 13901, USA
Chiura Obata: Japanese Art in America
History and Myth: Violence in Early Modern Prints
Japanese Design and the Arts and Crafts Movement in New York
February 27–June 14, 2025
T-S Noon-4 p.m. | TR Noon-7 p.m.
Lower Galleries | Free Admission
Three small exhibitions: Chiura Obata: Japanese Art in America, curated by Yao Shen He ’27; History and Myth: Violence in Early Modern Prints, curated by Leah Dascoli ’26; and Japanese Design and the Arts and Crafts Movement in New York, curated by Joseph Leach, Curator of Collections and Exhibitions.
History and Myth: Violence in Early Modern Prints
Japanese Design and the Arts and Crafts Movement in New York
February 27–June 14, 2025
T-S Noon-4 p.m. | TR Noon-7 p.m.
Lower Galleries | Free Admission
Three small exhibitions: Chiura Obata: Japanese Art in America, curated by Yao Shen He ’27; History and Myth: Violence in Early Modern Prints, curated by Leah Dascoli ’26; and Japanese Design and the Arts and Crafts Movement in New York, curated by Joseph Leach, Curator of Collections and Exhibitions.
12:00pm - 4:00pm
Art Museum, 4400 Vestal Pkwy E, , NY 13901, USA
Existential Color: Photography from the Permanent Collection
February 27–June 14, 2025
T-S Noon-4 p.m. | TR Noon-7 p.m.
Mezzanine Gallery | Free Admission
Existential Color: Photography from the Permanent Collection, organized by John Tagg, SUNY Distinguished Professor of Art History and Luisa Casella, Photograph Conservator, Fellow of American Institute for Conservation. In 1976, John Szarkowski, Director of the Department of Photography at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, hailed the arrival of a “new generation of color photographers” who saw color as “existential,” “as though the world itself existed in color.” This “new generation” included William Eggleston, Stephen Shore and Joel Meyerowitz, whose work here prompts a wider re-examination of color in Art Museum’s photographs collection. Within this exhibition, which features works made between the mid 1970s and the early 2000s, a display of historical processes dating back to the mid-nineteenth century shows that color was an integral part of photographic expression from its very beginnings. What viewers are asked is whether Szarkowski’s notion of a decisive break holds up, or whether the question of color and photography has to be seen from a much longer and broader historical perspective.
February 27–June 14, 2025
T-S Noon-4 p.m. | TR Noon-7 p.m.
Mezzanine Gallery | Free Admission
Existential Color: Photography from the Permanent Collection, organized by John Tagg, SUNY Distinguished Professor of Art History and Luisa Casella, Photograph Conservator, Fellow of American Institute for Conservation. In 1976, John Szarkowski, Director of the Department of Photography at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, hailed the arrival of a “new generation of color photographers” who saw color as “existential,” “as though the world itself existed in color.” This “new generation” included William Eggleston, Stephen Shore and Joel Meyerowitz, whose work here prompts a wider re-examination of color in Art Museum’s photographs collection. Within this exhibition, which features works made between the mid 1970s and the early 2000s, a display of historical processes dating back to the mid-nineteenth century shows that color was an integral part of photographic expression from its very beginnings. What viewers are asked is whether Szarkowski’s notion of a decisive break holds up, or whether the question of color and photography has to be seen from a much longer and broader historical perspective.