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The Columbia University School of the Arts , also known simply as the School of the Arts or as SoA, is the division of the university that offers Master of Fine Arts (MFA) degrees in Film, Visual Arts, Theatre Arts, and Writing. It works closely with the Arts Initiative at Columbia University (CUArts) and organizes the Columbia University Film Festival. Founded in 1965, the school is located in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. Columbia University is a private research university in the United States. ... In the United States, a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) is a terminal graduate degree in an area of visual, plastic, literary or performing arts typically requiring two to three years of study beyond the bachelor level. ... 1965 (MCMLXV) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1965 calendar). ... Manhattan is a borough of New York City, USA, coterminous with New York County. ... New York, NY redirects here. ...

Divisions

Film

A world-renowned film school, the Film Division at Columbia University's School of the Arts in New York City offers Master of Fine Arts (MFA) degrees with concentrations in screen-writing, directing, and producing.

The select MFA program accepts only 6% of applicants, having an annual incoming class of 65 out of the 1000+ applicants.

The Film Division use to be considered cousins to NYU's Tisch film program. After claiming the most wins at film festivals such as Sundance and the student Academy Awards, Columbia's Film Division is considered one of the best in the world.

Theatre Arts

The Theatre Arts Division at Columbia University's School of the Arts in New York City offers Master of Fine Arts (MFA) degrees in Theatre Arts with concentrations in acting, directing, playwriting, dramaturgy, stage management and theatre management and producing. The Division also offers a Ph.D. and joint JD/MFA degree in association with Columbia Law School.

Visual Arts

In this division, students work in the fields of painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture, digital media, drawing, performance and video art.

Writing

The program offers degrees in creative writing, with concentrations in fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. One of its more notable features are "master classes", four-week courses for writers (as opposed to critical scholars) "designed to stimulate provocative discussions about literary craft and artistic choices". Master Class faculty have recently included Helen Vendler, Jonathan Lethem, Colson Whitehead, James Wood, Richard Ford, Han Ong, Susan Choi, and Jonathan Ames. The writing division also employs prestigious writers as seminar and workshop instructors; these have recently included Gary Shteyngart, Nathan Englander, Myla Goldberg, Adam Haslett, Jessica Hagedorn, Phillip Lopate, Marie Howe, Eamon Grennan, Paul LaFarge, David Gates, Francisco Goldman, Darcy Frey, and David Ebershoff. Helen Hennessy Vendler (b. ... Jonathan Allen Lethem (born February 19, 1964) is an American writer based in New York City, best known for his novels, short stories, and essays, whose work encompasses a variety of genres and styles. ... Colson Whitehead (full name Arch Colson Chipp Whitehead) is a New York-based novelist, born in 1969. ... James Wood (1747 - 1813) was a U.S. soldier and political figure. ... Richard Ford (born February 16, 1944) is an American novelist and short story writer. ... Playwright and novelist Han Ong (1968- ) is both a high-school dropout and one of the youngest recipients of a MacArthur Foundation genius grant. ... Susan Choi is a novelist. ... Jonathan Ames is an American author who has written a number of novels and comic memoirs. ... Gary Shteyngart (born 1972) is an American writer born in Leningrad, USSR. Much of his work is satirical and relies on the invention of elaborately fictitious yet somehow familiar places and times. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Myla Goldberg (born 1972) is an American novelist and musician. ... Adam Haslett is an American fiction writer. ... Jessica Tarahata Hagedorn was born (and raised) in Manila, Philippines in 1949. ... Phillip Lopate is an American essayist, fiction writer, poet, and teacher who was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1943. ... Marie Howe, born in 1950, is an American poet living in Provincetown, Massachusetts. ... Eamon Grennan (born 1941) is an Irish poet. ... Paul LaFarge, born in New York in 1970, is a Yale graduate and American fiction author. ... David Gates (born January 8, 1947) is an American journalist and novelist. ... Francisco Goldman is a famous author born of a Guatemalan mother and a Jewish-American father. ... Darcy Frey is an American writer from New York. ... David Ebershoff is an American-born writer, editor, and teacher. ...

Future

As part of Columbia's expansion into the nearby neighborhood of Manhattanville, the School of the Arts will move from its current cramped quarters in Dodge Hall, on the Morningside Heights campus of the university, to a substantial new building, to be located on 125th Street, that will be one of the centrepieces of the new campus there. To be completed in the first phase of the expansion, the new building will be designed by Italian architect Renzo Piano. 125th Street station at Broadway and 125th Street, one of Manhattanvilles primary landmarks Manhattanville is the part of Manhattan in New York City bordered on the south by Morningside Heights on the west by the Hudson river, on the east by Harlem and on the north by Hamilton Heights... Morningside Heights is a neighborhood of the borough of Manhattan in New York City and is bound by the Upper West Side, Morningside Park, Harlem, and Riverside Park (some now consider it part of the Upper West Side). ... 125th Street is a two-way east-west street in Manhattan, considered the Main street of Harlem. ... The Padre Pio Pilgrimage Church in San Giovanni Rotondo. ...

Notable alumni

Laurie Anderson (born Laura Phillips Anderson, on June 5, 1947, in Glen Ellyn, Illinois) is an American experimental performance artist and musician. ... Mei-mei Berssenbrugge is an influential contemporary poet. ... Kathryn Bigelow (born 27 November 1952) is a American film director, noted for having placed her distinctive style on male-dominated genres like science fiction, action and horror. ... Lisa Cholodenko (born June 5, 1964) is an American filmmaker who grew up in Los Angeles and earned an MFA at Columbia University School of the Arts where she made an award winning short film Dinner Party. ... Richard Corliss is a writer for Time magazine who focuses on movies, with the occasional article on music or sports, and has distinguished himself for his clever way with words. ... Kiran Desai (born 3 September 1971) [1] is a South Asian American author. ... The Man Booker Prize for Fiction, also known as the Man Booker Prize, or simply the Man Booker, is one of the worlds most important literary prizes, and awarded each year for the best original novel written by a citizen of the Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland in... The Inheritance of Loss is a novel by Kiran Desai, first published in 2006 and winner of the Man Booker Prize that year. ... Tan Dunn (pinyin: TÃ¡n DÃ¹n, èšç›¾; born August 18, 1957) is a Chinese composer, most widely known as the Grammy and Oscar award winning composer for the soundtracks of the movies Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Hero. ... Meghan Daum (born: 1970 in California) is an American author, essayist, and journalist. ... Peter Farrelly is a screenwriter, producer, director and novelist from Cumberland, Rhode Island. ... Bobby Farrelly is a screenwriter, producer and director from Cumberland, Rhode Island. ... Theres Something About Mary is an American film released in 1998 by 20th Century Fox, directed by Bobby Farrelly and Peter Farrelly (the Farrelly brothers). ... Dumb and Dumber is a comedy film starring Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels, released in 1994. ... Kingpin is a 1996 Farrelly brothers film starring Woody Harrelson and Bill Murray. ... Shallow Hal is a 2001 romantic comedy film starring Gwyneth Paltrow as Rosemary Shanahan, Jack Black as Hal Larson and Jason Alexander as Mauricio. ... Me, Myself & Irene is a 2000 comedy film directed by the Farrelly Brothers, and starring Jim Carrey and RenÃ©e Zellweger. ... Stuck On You is a 2003 Farrelly brothers comedy film starring Matt Damon and Greg Kinnear. ... Outside Providence is a novel by writer, producer, and director Peter Farrelly of Dumb and Dumber and Theres Something About Mary fame. ... Philip Gourevitch (born 1961) is an American author and journalist. ... Albert P. Hall (born November 10, 1937 in Boothton, Alabama) is an African-American actor. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Susan Minot (b. ... Rick Moody (born Hiram Frederick Moody III October 18, 1961 in New York City), is an American novelist and short story writer best known for The Ice Storm (1994), a chronicle of the dissolution of two suburban Connecticut families over Thanksgiving weekend in 1973. ... Katha Pollitt (born 1949) is an American feminist writer. ... Richard Price (born 1949) is an American novelist and screenwriter. ... James Rebhorn (born September 1, 1948) is an American character actor who has appeared in over one hundred television shows, feature films, and plays. ... Dana Schutz (b. ... Banks Violette (born 1973, Ithaca, New York) is an artist based in New York. ... Jesse Ball is an American poet. ... James Mangold (born December 1964) is an American film director born in New York City, New York best known for the independent film Heavy, winner of the best directing prize at Sundance; Cop Land starring Sylvester Stallone, Robert DeNiro, Harvey Keitel and Ray Liotta; Girl, Interrupted, which won the Best... Girl, Interrupted is an autobiographical book by Susanna Kaysen first published in 1994, that relates the authors experience of being diagnosed with borderline personality disorder and admission to McLean Hospital. ... Walk the Line is an Academy Award, Golden Globe and Grammy Award-winning film chronicling the life of Johnny Cash, American country singer. ... Cop Land (1997) is an American dramatic film, written and directed by James Mangold, with an all-star cast, including Sylvester Stallone, Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, and Harvey Keitel. ... Mr. ... Little Children is a recently released film directed by Todd Field, based on the novel by Tom Perrotta. ... Little Miss Sunshine is a 2006 Academy Award-winning dramatic comedy film about a dysfunctional familys road trip to a child beauty pageant. ... See Han-Shan (Cold Mountain) for the Chinese poet. ... Nicole Holofcener Nicole Holofcener (born March 22, 1960, in New York City) is a film and television director. ... Friends with Money is a 2006 film, starring Jennifer Aniston, Frances McDormand, Catherine Keener and Joan Cusack. ... Sex and the City is a popular American cable television program. ... This article or section is not written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia article. ... Six Feet Under is an American television drama created by Alan Ball that was originally broadcast from 2001 to 2005. ... Lisa Cholodenko (born June 5, 1964) is an American filmmaker who grew up in Los Angeles and earned an MFA at Columbia University School of the Arts where she made an award winning short film Dinner Party. ... Laurel Canyon can refer to several things: Laurel Canyon is a 2002 American drama movie, written and directed by Lisa Cholodenko. ... The L Word is a television drama series that portrays the lives, loves and learnings of a group of lesbians and bisexuals and their friends, family and lovers in Los Angeles. ...

Notable faculty

See also the List of Columbia University people. Kristin Linklater (born April 23, 1936) is a prominent vocal coach, dialect coach, acting teacher, actor, and director. ... Anne Bogart is an American director of theatre. ... Richard Howard is a distinguished American poet, literary critic, essayist, teacher, and translator. ... The Pulitzer Prize is an American award regarded as the highest national honor in print journalism, literary achievements, and musical composition. ... Tom Kalin (born 1962) is an award-winning screenwriter, film director and producer. ... Ben Marcus (born Chicago, 1967) is a writer of surrealist fiction. ... Gregory Mosher presently serves as Director of the Columbia University Arts Initiative. ... What is popularly called the Tony Award (formally, the Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre) is an annual award celebrating achievements in live American theater, including musical theater, primarily honoring productions on Broadway in New York. ... Mira Nair (born October 15, 1957 at Rourkela, Orissa) is an India-born, New York-based film director. ... Monsoon Wedding (2001) is a film directed by Mira Nair which depicts various romantic entanglements during a traditional Punjabi wedding in Delhi. ... Mississippi Masala (1991) is a film directed by Mira Nair, based upon a screenplay by Sooni Taraporevala. ... Tagline: Vanity Fair is a 2004 drama/romance film, directed by Mira Nair. ... Andrei Åžerban is a stage director. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Friends with Money is a 2006 film, starring Jennifer Aniston, Frances McDormand, Catherine Keener and Joan Cusack. ... Barbara De Fina is an American film producer. ... Goodfellas (also spelled GoodFellas) is a 1990 film directed by Martin Scorsese, based on the book Wiseguy by Nicholas Pileggi, the true story of mob informer Henry Hill. ... You Can Count on Me is a 2000 movie, starring Laura Linney, Mark Ruffalo, Rory Culkin and Matthew Broderick, written and directed by Kenneth Lonergan. ... Kundun is a 1997 film written by Melissa Mathison and directed by Martin Scorsese, both of whom (along with several other members of the production) were banned by the Chinese Government from ever entering Tibet as a result of making the film. ... The Grifters is the name of both a film and a 1990s indie rock band: Grifters (band) Grifters (film) Grifters is the plural form of a noun meaning a con artist. ... The Ballad of Little Joe is the 20th episode in the VeggieTales series. ... Boys Dont Cry is the title of: a 1999 movie starring Hilary Swank: see Boys Dont Cry (movie) the US name of the 1979 The Cure album Three Imaginary Boys: see Boys Dont Cry (album) a band of session musicians who had a one-hit wonder in... Maggie Greenwald (born 1955) is an American film director and writer, most recognized for writing and directing Songcatcher (2000) and The Ballad of Little Jo (1993). ... The Ballad of Little Joe is the 20th episode in the VeggieTales series. ... Songcatcher (dir. ... Get a Clue is a 2002 Disney Channel Original Movie. ... Wild Fire is a manned rocket vehicle designed and built as part of the da Vinci Project, an attempt to win the Ansari X Prize for the first privately-funded reusable spacecraft. ... James Schamus is an American screenwriter and film producer, noted for his work on critically acclaimed independent films such as Safe, The Brothers McMullen and the Academy Award winning film Brokeback Mountain. ... For other uses, see Ice storm (disambiguation). ... Brokeback Mountain is an Academy Award-winning 2005 film that depicts the complex emotional, sexual, and romantic relationship between two men in the American West from 1963 to 1983. ... Look up Hulk in Wiktionary, the free dictionary Hulk may refer to: Hulk (comics), a comic book superhero in the Marvel Comics universe Hulk (film), a 2003 film based on the comic book character, directed by Ang Lee Hulk (ship), a type of ships Hulk (roller coaster), a roller coaster... Michael Hausman is an American percussionist and artist manager in the music industry. ... Brokeback Mountain is an Academy Award-winning 2005 film that depicts the complex emotional, sexual, and romantic relationship between two men in the American West from 1963 to 1983. ... Gangs of New York is a 2002 film set in the middle 19th century in the Five Points district of New York City. ... This article is about the 1993 film. ... All the Kings Men is a novel by Robert Penn Warren, published in 1946, made into a film in 1949 and again in 2005. ... This is a partially sorted list of notable persons who have had ties to Columbia University. ...

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Theatre Arts

Visual Arts

Writing

Future

Notable alumni

Notable faculty

See also

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