CUArts - Arts Initiative @ Columbia University

Arts @ Columbia

Arts Initiative

Campus Groups - Art

[Literature and Writing ]

Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery (Art)
Affiliation: GSAPP
Location: Buell Hall
Phone: 212-854-3414

Arts Administration Program (Art)
Affiliation: Teachers College
Phone: 212-678-3271
Website: http://www.tc.columbia.edu/academic/arad/
E-Mail: arad@columbia.edu
Contact: Joan Jeffri, Director
The Arts Administration program reflects the conviction that the management of cultural institutions and arts organizations requires strategic planning, artistic creativity and social commitment. The arts managers capable of responding to the challenges and responsibilities of the arts must possess integrated management and financial skills, knowledge of the artistic process in which they are involved and sensitivity to the dynamics and educational needs of the communities they serve. The Program, which offers a Master of Arts degree, represents an alliance of four disciplines: arts, education, business, and law. It is designed to help professionals meet the challenges of the next decade. These challenges include questions about the long-term health of arts organizations; their missions, governance and management; sources of income, and tax regulations. Such issues as freedom of expression, First Amendment rights, censorship and government intervention in the arts have important implications for international, educational, and cultural policy, and are integral to the Program. Today, arts administration training in the United States is a model in the field that addresses worldwide concerns.

Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library (Art)
Affiliation: Columbia University Libraries
Location: 300 Avery Hall
Phone: 212-854-3501
Website: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/avery/index.html
The Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library collects books and periodicals in architecture, historic preservation, art history, painting, sculpture, graphic arts, decorative arts, city planning, real estate, and archaeology. The scope of the Avery collection in architecture is outstanding; it ranges from the first Western printed book on architecture, De re aedificatoria (1485), by Leone Battista Alberti, to the classics of modernism by Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier. Avery's drawing and manuscript collection holds 400,000 drawings and original records.

Barnard Library Zine Collection (Literature and Writing)
Affiliation: Barnard College Library
Location: Barnard College, Lehman Hall, 2nd Floor
Phone: 2128544615
Website: http://www.barnard.edu/library/zines
E-Mail: zines@barnard.com
Contact: Jenna Freedman
IM: BarnardLibJenna
Short for magazine or fanzine, zines are self-publications, motivated by a desire for self-expression, not for profit. Although zines, a rich and democratic form of self-expression that range from scholarly treatises on diverse issues to wildly creative artworks, have been around for a long time, few libraries have yet to begin collecting and preserving them. Our collection development policy provides both contemporary and future researchers a unique insight into today's feminist culture. Barnard's zines are primarily in the area of women's studies, featuring personal and political publications on activism, anarchism, body image, feminism, gender, lesbians, menstruation, parenting, sexual assault, and other topics. They are created by women of color, NYC and other urban women. The term "woman" applies to anyone who self-identifies as such.

Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture (Art)
Affiliation: GSAPP
Location: 400 Avery Hall
Phone: 212-854-8165
Website: http://www.arch.columbia.edu/buell/
E-Mail: buellcenter@columbia.edu

Butler Library (Literature and Writing)
Affiliation: Columbia University Libraries
Location: Butler Library, 3rd Floor North
Phone: 212-854-7309
Website: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/butler/index.html
Butler Library houses 2 million volumes which comprise the University's collections in the humanities, with particular strengths in history (including government documents and social science materials published before 1974), literature, philosophy and religion, as well as one of the country's most extensive collections of materials pertinent to the study of Greco-Roman antiquity. The 3rd floor Circulation area features numerous cases with rotating exhibitions spotlighting aspects of the University's history and highlighting library collections.

C.V. Starr East Asian Library (Literature and Writing)
Affiliation: Columbia University Libraries
Location: 300 Kent Hall
Phone: 212-854-4318
Website: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/eastasian/index.html
The C. V. Starr East Asian Library is one of the major collections for the study of East Asia in the United States, with over 783,000 volumes of Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Tibetan, Mongol, Manchu, and Western-language materials and over 5,000 periodical titles. The Library also features rotating exhibitions.

Center for Comparative Literature and Society (Literature and Society)
Affiliation: Dept. Anthrop., Art His., Classics, EALAC, Eng, Fr., Ger, His, Ital, MEALAC, Music, Phil, Poli Sci, Re., Sl. Lang, Soc, Span, Port.
Location: Heyman Center, HB1-1
Phone: 212-854-4541
Website: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/icls/index.html
E-Mail: ccls@columbia.edu
Contact: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Director
The Center for Comparative Literature and Society (CCLS) was founded at Columbia in 1998 to promote a global perspective in the study of literature, culture, and its social context. It houses the interdepartmental undergraduate and graduate programs in comparative literature and society. It draws its faculty from the humanities, the social sciences, and the Schools of Architecture and Law.

Center for Korean Research (Literature and Writing)
Affiliation: Weatherhead East Asian Institute
Website: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/ckr/
The Center for Korean Research was established within the East Asian Institute in 1988 with the generous support of the Korean Committee for the Promotion of Korean Studies at Columbia University, and continued to expand with the support of the Korean Foundation. In cooperation with other organizations from inside and outside the East Asian Institute, the Center has sponsored visiting scholars and research associates as well as cultural events such as movies and concerts, monthly Contemporary Korean Affairs Seminars, and noon lecture series on Korea-related topics. Among the most important goals pursued by the Center has been the expansion of Korean instructional resources in history, political science/international relations, sociology, anthropology, business, economics, and literature. Visiting Professors from Korea affiliated with the institute have included Dr. Sung-joo Han, Dr. Sang-jin Han, Dr. Roy Kim, and others, who have offered a variety of courses at Columbia in their specific fields.

Citizen: The Campus Talk Show (Media)
E-Mail: talkshow@columbia.edu
Cornel West, Gloria Steinem, Bell Hooks, Hyun Kyung Chung, and Eddie Palmieri anchored the first season of Citizen: The Campus Talk Show. Hosted by Teachers College adjunct lecturer and doctoral candidate Kelvin Shawn Sealey, Citizen features celebrated guests in dialogue with the host on issues of social consequence. Each show runs approximately one hour and tickets are free to the public.

The Collection (Literature and Writing)
E-Mail: thecollection@gmail.com
The Collection is Columbia's student-run magazine of serial fiction. Our writers create characters who are somehow related - either directly or tangentially - to the Columbia campus or Morningside Heights, and continue their stories throughout each issue. The stories are then illustrated by a talented group of student artists. We also have limited space for one-off submissions of fiction or poetry.

Columbia Architecture Society (Art)
Website: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/architecturesociety/
E-Mail: architeturesociety@gmail.com
Architecture Society is not a club you "join," but rather one in which the board members are the decision makers and event planners and the rest of the society (a.k.a. anyone who gets arch. soc. emails) reaps the benefits of those decisions. Some popular events that Architecture Society sponsors are Grad School Information Night, Portfolio Night, Pumkin Carving, and Model Shoot Night. Some new programs we're hoping to put together this year are organized tours to notable New York City Buildings and tours to faculty's own architecture firms. Architecture Society holds meetings weekly, and anyone in the Columbia Community is welcome to attend. Currently meetings are on Wednesday evenings, 10PM in the Digital Architecture Lab (DAL) on the 3rd floor of Barnard Hall.

Columbia Daily Spectator: Arts & Entertainment (Literature and Writing)
Website: http://www.columbiaspectator.com/?q=section/3
E-Mail: arts@columbiaspectator.com
Facebook: http://columbia.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2200021166
The Columbia Daily Spectator is the second-oldest college daily paper in the country and has been financially independent form the University since 1962. The newspaper is published five days a week during the academic year and weekly during the summer. The Columbia Daily Spectator is written and edited by Columbia University undergraduates. It serves the communities of Columbia University and Morningside Heights as a forum for the expression of diverse viewpoints, a top source for in-depth and comprehensive news and features, and a rewarding extracurricular opportunity for their staff. Serving a community of over 60,000 students, faculty, administrators, and Morningside Heights residents, the Columbia Daily Spectator is the most widely read newspaper in Morningside Heights and Harlem.

Columbia Review (Literature and Writing)
Website: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/review/
E-Mail: columbiareview@columbia.edu
Contact: Robert Kohen
The Columbia Review is published twice a year. The Fall 2004 press run was 1600 copies, which were made available free of charge on the Columbia campus. Unlike other campus magazines, The Columbia Review does not specialize in the work of any particular gender, ethnic group, or university division.

Columbia University Archives (Media)
Location: 210 Low Library
Phone: 212-854-3786
Website: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/uarchives/index.html
E-Mail: sgh2105@columbia.edu
Contact: Susan G. Hamson
Collection consists of over 7,000 linear feet of records that document the history of Columbia University; King's College Room museum features furniture, memorabilia, and paintings celebrating Columbia's 18th century roots.

Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art (Literature and Writing)
Website: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/arts/journal/
E-Mail: info@columbiajournal.org
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=21414116528
Columbia is a journal of literature and art, which prides itself on variety in the issues it produces and the writers it includes. The magazine is edited by a team of writers with a keen eye for quality new writing and a strong sense of what they want to see in a journal.

Department of Architecture (Art)
Affiliation: Barnard College
Location: 310 Barnard Hall
Phone: 212-854-8430
Website: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/archprogram/
E-Mail: architecture@barnard.edu
The major in architecture provides students with the opportunity to explore the discipline of architecture within the context of the College's commitment to liberal arts. The major is introduced through a series of studio and academic courses that explore the multiple relationships between architectural design, history, theory, and criticism. Students are expected to develop technical skills, design excellence, and a critical understanding of architecture as part of our visual, social, and political history and culture. The major is designed to prepare our students to work in architecture and related disciplines or pursue graduate study. Most of our students take advantage of the resources of New York City and the teaching faculty by working in internships in the city while majoring in the field.

Department of Art History – Barnard (Art)
Affiliation: Barnard College
Location: 301 Barnard Hall
Phone: 212-854-2118
Website: http://www.barnard.edu/arthist/
E-Mail: esher@barnard.edu
Art History, which is devoted to the study of the visual arts, is one of the broadest of the humanistic disciplines. It is concerned not only with the nature of works of art -- their form, style, and content, but also with the social, political, and cultural circumstances that shape them. The department, fortunate in being located in New York City, one of the world's great art centers, takes full advantage of the rich resources of the city's museums and galleries in its course of study.

Department of Art History and Archaeology (Art)
Affiliation: GSAS
Location: 826 Schermerhorn Hall
Phone: 212-854-4505
Website: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/arthistory/
The Art History and Archeology Department was founded in conjunction with the special resources in archaeology and architecture at the Avery Memorial Library as inspired by great European traditions of archaeology, connoisseurship, and iconology. Well before recent advances, Columbia art historians transcended the geographical and cultural boundaries of the West. Since Paul Wingert expanded the Department's curriculum in the 1930s, coursework in the study of the arts of Africa, Oceania, Native America, the Near East, East Asia is a staple of the Columbia University curriculum, and like Columbia's great teachers of the past--Meyer Schapiro, Rudolf Wittkower, Rober Branner, Howard McP. Davis, Julius Held, Howard Hibbard, Edith Porada, and William Bell Dinsmoor--today's faculty continue to apply art historical methods to illuminate particular works of art, even as they place their works in the broadest cultural context.

Deutsches Haus (Media)
Affiliation: Department of Germanic Languages and Literature
Location: 420 W 116th St
Phone: 212-854-1858
Website: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/german/
E-Mail: deutsches-haus@columbia.edu
Deutsches Haus at Columbia University was the first foreign language house established at an American university in 1911. Initially dedicated to preserving Germany's unique literary tradition, Deutsches Haus today wishes to encourage academic, cultural, and social exchange between members of the Columbia community and the public with programs not only in German, but in Dutch, Finnish, Swedish, and Yiddish as well. Events include academic lectures, film series, conferences, plays, recitals, and informal gatherings. At Kaffeestunde (German coffee hour), Koffieuurtje (Dutch coffee hour), and Kave Sho (Yiddish Coffee Hour) students at all proficiency levels can practice their language skills. Deutsches Haus programs are free and open to the public and provide a cultural resource for the wider intellectual and professional community of New York City.

Digital Media Center (DMC) (Media)
Affiliation: School of the Arts
Location: 301 Dodge Hall
Website: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/arts/dmc/
E-Mail: dmc-info@columbia.edu
The Digital Media Center's resources serve the graduate students of School of the Arts, allowing students to develop new aesthetic directions in their work. The Center is an affirmation of Columbia University's dedication to providing a creative and intellectual center for artistic achievement using emerging technologies. The Digital Media Center provides training in 3-D modeling, graphic design, physical computing, motion graphics, programming, sound editing, video editing, video effects, web animation, and web design. Facilities and instruction are geared primarily to the needs of students in the Film and Visual Arts divisions.

Goldsmith Gallery (Literature and Writing)
Affiliation: JTS
Location: Jewish Theological Seminary
Phone: 212-678-8000

Harriman Institute (Media)
Location: International Affairs Building, 12th Floor
Phone: 212-854-4623
Website: http://www.harriman.columbia.edu/
E-Mail: harriman@columbia.edu
The Harriman Institute is the oldest and largest academic center of its kind in the United States devoted to the interdisciplinary study of Russia and the other successor states of the former Soviet Union, East Central Europe, and the Balkans. The Institute's mandate is to advance scholarly knowledge and public understanding of the polities, economies, societies, and cultures of the Eurasian landmass extending from the Elbe to the Pacific, and from the Arctic to Afghanistan. In addition, the Institute promotes advanced research and publicly disseminates information, analysis, and opinion generated by its faculty, fellows, students, and other affiliated scholars. The Institute sponsors many conferences, special lectures, and other events for the University community, the private sector, media, policymakers, secondary school educators, alumni, and other constituencies.

Heyman Center for the Humanities (Media)
Affiliation: A&S
Location: East Campus, Morningside
Phone: 212-854-4270
Website: http://www.heymancenter.org
E-Mail: mrh2101@columbia.edu
Contact: Rebecca Hanger
The newly reconfigured Heyman Center is Columbia University's central site for the Humanities. It brings together the interests not only of the various departments in the Humanities but also the broad conceptual, methodological and value-laden issues that are of interest to the natural sciences and the professional schools of Law, Medicine, Journalism, Arts, and International Affairs. The Heyman Center presents several events on various themes in the Humanities throughout the Fall and Spring semesters each year, which are open not only to all at Columbia but to everyone in New York City and beyond. It also has eight post-doctoral fellows at any given time, each holding a two-year Mellon fellowship in the Society of Fellows in the Humanities. It plans to have various other levels of fellowship over the next few years for junior and senior faculty both at Columbia and from other universities, as well as some 'New York City Fellows' who are distinguished artists, writers, musicians, and journalists living in the city. Every week of each semester it has a lunch for a group of Columbia faculty fellows who present their work to each other for discussion. The Heyman Center also houses Columbia's Center for Comparative Literature and Society, the Human Rights Center, a group of Columbia's emeritus faculty known as the "Society of Senior Scholars," who teach in the Core Curriculum, and The Friends of the Heyman Center, all of which host seminars and colloquia of their own throughout the year. The Lionel Trilling Seminar (once a semester) and the Edward Said Memorial Lecture (once a year) are also based at the Heyman Center. Notices for these can be found in our Events section on our website.

The Italian Academy (Media)
Location: Casa Italiana
Phone: 212-854-2306
Website: http://www.italianacademy.columbia.edu/
E-Mail: itacademy@columbia.edu
The Academy was created in 1991 on the basis of a charter signed by the President of the Republic of Italy and the President of Columbia University. It was conceived as a center for advanced research, particularly in areas relating to Italian culture, science and society. It was also intended to provide a locus for collaborative projects between senior Italian and American scholars, particularly those open to interdisciplinary research.

The LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies (Art)
Affiliation: School of the Arts
Location: 310 Dodge Hall
Phone: 212-854-7641
Website: http://arts.columbia.edu/neiman/
E-Mail: hjk54@columbia.edu
Contact: Hye Joeng Kim
The LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies was founded to promote printmaking through education, production and exhibition of prints. The Center provides students, as well as established artists, a rich environment to investigate and produce images through a myriad of printmaking techniques which include intaglio, lithography, silkscreen, relief, photography, and digital imaging.

Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary (Literature and Writing)
Affiliation: JTS
Location: Jewish Theological Seminary
Phone: 212-678-8082
Website: http://www.jtsa.edu/Library.xml
The exhibitions program at the JTS Library enables the general public to become better acquainted with the vast treasures of Jewish heritage collected by the Library. Exhibitions are mounted three times a year showcasing the collections of manuscripts, incunabula, rare printed Hebrew books, Genizah fragments, broadsides, ketubbot, megillot and prints. Exhibitions are on view in the Goldsmith Gallery and on the first and fifth floors of the Library building. All exhibits are free and open to the public.

Low Library Rotunda
Location: Low Memorial Library
Phone: 212-854-2877

Macy Gallery (Art)
Affiliation: Teachers College
Location: 444 Macy Hall
Phone: 212-678-3681

La Maison Française (Media)
Affiliation: Department of French and Romance Philology
Location: Buell Hall, 2nd Floor
Phone: 212-854-4482
Website: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/french/maison/
E-Mail: maisondirector@columbia.edu
Contact: Priya Wadhera, Director
Founded in 1913, La Maison Française of Columbia University is the oldest French cultural center established on an American university campus. It is a meeting place for students, scholars, business leaders, policy-makers and all persons seeking a better understanding of the French-speaking world.

Middle East Institute (Media)
Location: International Affairs Building
Phone: 212-854-2584
Website: http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/regional/mei/
E-Mail: amb49@columbia.edu
Contact: Astrid Benedek- Assistant Director
The Middle East Institute of Columbia University, founded in 1954, has helped to set the national pace in developing an interdisciplinary approach to the study of the Middle East from the rise of Islam to the present, with a primary focus on the 19th and 20th centuries. Fostering an inter-regional and multi-disciplinary approach to the region, the Institute focuses on the Arab countries, Armenia, Iran, Israel, Turkey, Central Asia, and Muslim Diaspora communities.

Miriam & Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery (Art)
Affiliation: Department of Art History and Archaeology
Location: Schermerhorn Hall, 8th Floor
Phone: 212-854-7288
Website: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/wallach/
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery aims to contribute to Columbia's long-standing tradition of historical, critical, and creative engagement in the visual arts. Open to the public and operating under the auspices of the Department of Art History and Archaeology, the gallery presents exhibitions and related programming that complement the educational mission of the university. The exhibitions, held during the academic year, reflect a diversity of interests and approaches to the arts and embody the university's high standards for research and instruction.

Mobius Strip (Literature and Writing, Media)
E-Mail: mobiusmag@gmail.com
Facebook: http://columbia.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2200032533
The Mobius Strip was founded in the Fall of 2003 at Columbia University in response to a lack of enthusiasm over printed literary magazines, and only exists online. The mobius strip as a symbol of endless connectivity and fluidity informs the philosophy of the project. Mobius Strip strives to be an organization that provides a forum for displaying all kinds of creative work, ranging from poems by fourth-graders to wood cuts by university students. The site hopes to illuminate some of the provocative (and problematic) aspects of experiencing art and literature online. The Mobius Strip Gallery juxtaposes visual art and writing, producing new combinations of works with each cycle, bringing to light different aspects of each work by framing them in a variety of ways.

Museo (Literature and Writing)
Website: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/museo/
E-Mail: shirls.wong@gmail.com
Contact: Shirley Wong
MUSEO is Columbia University's undergraduate journal of contemporary art. Students are encouraged to submit essays, reviews, interviews, polemics, and portfolios this upcoming winter. This year we will be accepting a broader variety of articles that is no longer limited to the visual arts; students are strongly encouraged to submit work in anthropology, film/literary criticism, cultural studies, and other fields. If submission passes review of the editorial board, writers will work with editors on their submissions to improve or re-angle their work. MUSEO 9 will be published in the spring of 2006.

The Observer (Literature and Writing)
Website: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/observer/
E-Mail: observereditor@columbia.edu
The Observer is the literary, art and features magazine of the School of General Studies at Columbia University in the City of New York. Although The Observer focuses on topics pertinent to the GS student body, submissions from all Columbia University Students are encouraged and will be considered for publication. The Observer is published biannually during the academic year, at the end of the fall and spring semesters. They publish a variety of work, including but not limited to fiction, features, poetry, short prose, artistic reviews, essays, columns, satirical comics, creative nonfiction, letters to the editor, and original artwork including photography. The Observer has a circulation of 1500 copies per semester.

Onsite (Literature and Writing)
Website: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/archprogram/bca_osite_frm.html
Onsite is the annual journal of undergraduate work produced by the Barnard-Columbia Architecture Program. The journal is created by a different team of graduating senior students every year.

Philolexian Society (Literature and Writing)
Website: www.philo.org
E-Mail: philo@columbia.edu
Facebook: http://columbia.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2200038780
The Philolexian Society is Columbia University's oldest and sexiest student organization. Established in 1802 by associates of Alexander Hamilton, the Society promotes literary awareness and the art of rhetoric among its members, who have ranged from Allen Ginsberg to Jacques Barzun. Over the years, Philo has evolved significantly. While we honor our predecessors, we don't believe we're living in the 19th century. We just think it might be fun to pretend.

The Photography Institute (Art)
Affiliation: School of the Arts
Phone: 212-854-5688
Website: http://www.thephotographyinstitute.org/
Contact: Cheryl Younger (Director) at cyounger@gmsc-soho.com
In today's global community, visual images are the primary form of communication. Images have the presence to communicate what thousands of words cannot. They must be analyzed and understood because they embody historical and psychological viewpoints used to determine cultural norms and political climates. To be unable to decipher a photograph's construction, implications and power is to be fundamentally illiterate. The Photography Institute brings together today's noted and emerging artists, scholars and critics to provide a forum where they can explore contemporary issues in visual imagery and photographic image making.

Postcrypt Art Gallery (Art)
Website: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/postcrypt/artgallery/
E-Mail: postcryptart@columbia.edu
Contact: JD Stetton
Postcrypt Art Gallery is a unique space on the Columbia University campus designed to provide student artists and curators with the opportunity to create, curate and exhibit their work. Since its inception in 1989, when an enterprising group of Columbia undergraduate students took the initiative to transform the unused basement space of the St.Paul's Chapel into an exhibition space, the Postcrypt Art Gallery has been the artistic pulse of the Columbia campus. The gallery serves as the only gallery space exclusively dedicated to the exhibition of undergraduate art, and student artists from CC. BC GS and SEAS are provided with the opportunity to exhibit their work, regardless of their involvement with the Visual Arts Department. (Last updated a Jan. 06)

Rare Book & Manuscript Library (Literature and Writing)
Affiliation: Columbia University Libraries
Location: Butler Library, 6th Floor East
Phone: 212-854-5153
Website: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/rbml/index.html
The Rare Book and Manuscript Library (RBML), the home of many of Columbia's greatest treasures, is housed on the sixth floor of Butler Library. The range of the library's holdings spans more than 4,000 years, from cylinder seals created in Mesopotamia to artists' books on which the ink is barely dry. In addition to printed and manuscript resources, the library contains cuneiform tablets, papyri, ostraca, astronomical and mathematical instruments, maps, works of art, photographs, posters, early printing presses and papermaking equipment, type specimens, sound and moving image recordings, theater set models, puppets, masks, ephemera and memorabilia.

School of the Arts (Media)
Location: 305 Dodge Hall
Phone: 212-854-2875
Website: http://arts.columbia.edu/
We are a community of artists inside a great university --Columbia University-- in one of the greatest arts centers of the world --New York City. We take advantage of this fortunate location by connecting our students to the excitement and creativity of the arts in New York. At our doorstep are the resources and opportunities offered by hundreds of museums and galleries, theatres and theatre companies, publishing houses, reading spaces, and production companies.

Equally important, within the walls of Columbia University are resources critical to the development of emerging artists, including libraries, performance spaces, and some of the best faculty -in all disciplines -in the world. The teaching and mentoring of our regular faculty is supplemented by a remarkable adjunct faculty, as well as by visiting artists and guest lecturers.

School of the Arts- Student Affairs (Media)
Website: http://wwwapp.cc.columbia.edu/art/app/arts/student_affairs/index.jsp
Whether you're a continuing student or new to the School of the Arts, the Office of Student Affairs is designed to make your time in the M.F.A. program easier and enrich your School of the Arts experience as whole. Aside from providing information to students regarding registration, financial aid, housing, student activities, general orientation and graduation (among others), we also serve as a bridge to the rest of Columbia University.

Southern Asian Institute (Media)
Location: International Affairs Building, 11th Floor
Phone: 212-854-3616
Website: http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/regional/sai/
E-Mail: southasia@columbia.edu
Contact: Vidya Dehejia- Director
The Southern Asian Institute coordinates the many activities at Columbia University that relate to Southern Asia -- mainly the countries of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan and the Maldives. Its conferences, seminars, exhibits, films, and lecture series bring together faculty and students with widely varying interests and backgrounds. It works with many South Asia groups on campus and off. Because of its location in New York City, the Institute has lively ties with persons serving in the United Nations, the diplomatic community, and many international agencies. It is also in the midst of the largest South Asian ethnic community in North America, with all its cultural richness.

Student Development & Activities (Media)
Phone: 212-854-3611
Website: http://www.studentaffairs.columbia.edu/sda/
E-mail: activities@columbia.edu
Student Development and Activities (SDA) is committed to helping students enhance their leadership skills and explore the co-curricular opportunities available at Columbia. SDA forges a sense of community by providing opportunities for social interaction and student participation in community life and governance. Whether you are looking for advice in running your organization, planning an event, organizing your financial records, starting a group, or if you just want to brainstorm, the SDA staff is here to support you.

Tablet (Literature and Writing)
Website: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/tablet/
E-Mail: tablet@columbia.edu
Tablet is Columbia University's only multicultural literary and art magazine. Published each semester, Tablet reflects the diverse community of Columbia and New York and is geared towards providing an open forum in which various cultural issues can be discussed in a literary context. Although formerly known as Asian Journal, they have since broadened their scope by including work from writers and artists of all cultural heritages. The goal is to enrich the Columbia community with a mix of cultural expressions.

Visual Arts Division - School of the Arts (Art)
Affiliation: School of the Arts
Location: 310 Dodge Hall
Phone: 212-854-4065
Website: http://wwwapp.cc.columbia.edu/art/app/arts/visual_arts/index.jsp
E-Mail: visualarts@columbia.edu
Contemporary art has become increasingly interdisciplinary. To that end, the Division of Visual Arts keeps the walls between its disciplines low, offering an M.F.A. degree in Visual Arts, rather than in one specific medium. The two-year studio program taught by internationally celebrated artists allows students to pursue digital media, drawing, new genres, painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture, and video art. In addition to rigorous training within a specific discipline, we encourage our students to cross boundaries, both within our Division and outside of it, to take advantage of Columbia's renowned Writing, Theatre, and Film programs. This unique cultural nexus is our signature, distinguishing us from other comparable programs.

Visual Media Center (Media)
Affiliation: Department of Art History and Archaeology
Location: 653 Schermerhorn Extension
Phone: 212-854-4606
Website: http://www.learn.columbia.edu/
E-Mail: rc456@columbia.edu
Contact: Robert Carlucci, Director
The Visual Media Center explores material culture, vision, media, and pedagogy in the broadest sense to connect faculty research and student learning through the creative application of technology.
Our goal is to examine and extend the ways of interpreting images, objects, buildings, and sites and to reinforce Columbia’s historic strengths in core education for undergraduate students, graduate student training, and faculty research. Our specialized facilities and personnel serve the closely related fields of Archæology, Art History, and Historic Preservation. There are natural affinities with Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Teachers College, other Arts and Sciences departments, and the schools of Architecture, Engineering, Journalism, and International and Public Affairs.

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