Alisha Bhandari
Dyson | Digital Cinema & Filmmaking
Faculty Mentor: Melanie La Rosa
Danielle R. Shoulders
Dyson | Environmental Studies
Faculty Mentor: Melanie La Rosa
Project Title: How to Power a City
Distribution of a new documentary film, “How To Power A City;” which follows people in six locations bringing solar and wind power projects to their communities. The film’s distribution will combine traditional methods like film festivals, distributors, and broadcast, and will also involve developing partnerships with groups and organizations interested in screening the film.
Campbell J. Hodges
Dyson | Art
Faculty Mentor: Thomas Nguyen
Project Title: Asa and Calliope Short Animation Project & Rosarium and Megascope Publishing Projects
The animated short film is about a deaf child learning to play piano with his Cuban pianist neighbor. The animation is choreographed to Bela Bartok’s chamber piece ‘Contrast’ as we watch the pianist’s cat get chased by the boy’s giant imaginary rhino. The other project is a comic series and graphic novel that Prof. Nguyen is working with Keith Miller for publisher Rosarium.
Julia R. Kennedy
Dyson | Communication Studies
Faculty Mentor: Emilie Zaslow
Project Title: Podcast Title: Growing up before my parents did: Early teen experiences with social media, 2009-2019
Podcast Title: Growing up before my parents did: Early teen experiences with social media, 2009-2019
Agnes V. Loukine
Dyson | Art
Faculty Mentor: Thomas Nguyen
Project Title: The Sculpture Center Revealed Project & Upstate Art “Arabella and Anita” Project with David Shaw & Asa and Calliope Animated Short Project
We are preparing for solo art exhibition at The Sculpture Center in Cleveland Ohio, having received the Revealed Emerging Artist award for a Fall 2023/Spring 2024 exhibition program. We will be creating a community activated socially engaged installation filled with body sized amorphous wearable textile sculptures we have generically named “PLUSH’.
Jack A. Niemczyk
Dyson | English Language & Literature
Faculty Mentor: Sid Ray
Project Title: A Gay Ol’ Time: A Musical Crash Course in Queerness
A cabaret style performance that uses comedic songs to teach the history of New York Cities queer history from the 1800s-1950s. This project aims to teach an unwritten history in a comedic way that many queer performers utilized in the early 1930s in New York City.
Katie A. Romanyshyn
Dyson | Film and Screen Studies
Faculty Mentor: Derek Stroup
Project Title: Radiant Fields
Radient Fields, an exhibition at KPNZ Gallery in October 2023.
Pierce T. Stephan
Dyson| Directing
Faculty Mentor: Adrienne Kapstein
Project Title: Songs for the Mother Tree
Songs for the Mother Tree is a novel collaborative project bringing cutting-edge original jazz music with live theater to create a new form of expression in support of ecological activism. In its final version, it will be a 70-90 minute immersive performance experience from a suite of original jazz songs. Associate Professor, Adrienne Kapstein, will work with critically acclaimed jazz musician and composer, Dan Loomis, to conceive and direct a live performance element to exist alongside Loomis’ suite of music, Songs for the Mother Tree. The project draws inspiration from the growing body of research on the communication and cooperation of trees.