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As part of the SOAR festival of the Arts: bing]LO — ���ϲ�����’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.

Festival of the Arts 2025! 

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

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 S​creenprinting (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.

Festival of the Arts 2025! 

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 floor​s 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​ &​ C​reative 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.

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.

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 ���ϲ����� 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 ���ϲ����� by the Office of the Provost, the Division of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, the Harpur College Dean’s Office, the Binghamton Fund for Excellence, the Kaschak Institute for Social Justice for Women and Girls, and Rebecca Moshief and Harris Tilevitz ’78.

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.

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 ���ϲ����� 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.