“Case Study Tokyo 2020” by the Gabelli School of Business is now Available!
I am pleased to announce to you the completion of a project that is very dear to me. Clocking in at 438 pages with over 4500 images, Case Study Tokyo 2020 by the Gabelli School of Business is finally here!
Take one part working methodology from the influential 1972 book, Learning from Las Vegas: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form, combine with the megacity of Tokyo, add Fordham University Gabelli students, stir for ten days in Japan and what do you get? You get direct acquisition of knowledge through experience with a small team, realized in a hardback research volume focusing on branding, sensory marketing, architecture, design, photography, and urban planning.
Hearty congratulations to the intrepid researchers: Madison Burkart, Branden Cheung, Kaia Corthell, Alexa Cucchiara, Shauna Fortier, Alexander Gardner, Sekai Kaminski, Fionna Lui, Declan McCabe, Sraboni Paul, Anja Pelkola, Raimundo Sanchez, Amanda Scacalossi, Samantha Schwartz, Joseph Sellmeyer, Polina Yafizova, Kevin Zhang, Yiyun Zheng.
Preview the entirety of the book HERE. As well, you can order in softcover or two different hardcover formats. Enjoy!
A JOURNAL OF THE PLAGUE YEAR: AN ARCHIVE OF COVID19
Call for Submissions
Journal of the Plague Year: An Archive of CoVid19
The Visual Arts Program has initiated a partnership between Fordham University and Arizona State University (as well as other schools across the country) to contribute to a remarkable public archive of materials related to how the CoVid19 pandemic is affecting our lives on a local level. You can submit images, text, videos, tweets, Facebook posts, Instagram or Snapchat memes, screenshots of the news, emails — anything that speaks to the moment. Here is a link to a fuller description of the project. Here is a link to the archive’s submissions page.
In the “Your name, as the contributor” field, add Fordham University after your name. This will allow us to search for your submission on the back end of the website and publish it more quickly. At some point in the not-too-distant future, there will be a Fordham Featured Collection that contains all Fordham submissions in one place.
In the “Description” field, add #FordhamUniversity.
Important: At the end of the form, check “Publish my contribution on the web.” If you don’t check this box, your submission will remain private and not appear on the website.
To see what other Fordham students have submitted so far, search “Fordham University” in the search bar at the top of the home page. Please contact Artist in Residence Casey Ruble at caseyruble@gmail.com if you have any questions or need help making your submission.

12 Films from Canyon Cinema
Visual Arts Dept. Presents:
12 Films from Canyon Cinema
Wednesday, 21 February, 6PM
Visual Arts Complex SL24L
Visual Arts Spring 2019 Events
EVENTS SPRING 2019
- Film Club: Thursday Feb. 8, 11:30 – 1:00, SL 24L
- Film Club: Thursday Feb. 15, 11:30 – 1:00, SL 24L
- Majors Fair, LC: Thurs. Feb. 15, 11:30 – 2:30, Lowenstein Plaza Level
- A selection of 16mm films from Canyon Cinema: Wed. Feb. 21, 6:00 SL 24 L
- Film Club: Thursday Feb. 22, 11:30 – 1:00, SL 24L
- Film Club: Thursday March 1, 11:30 – 1:00, SL 24L
- Summer Research Grant Proposal application deadline: Fri. March 2
- Film Club: Thursday March 8, 11:30 – 1:00, SL 24L
- Ildiko-Butler & Lipani Travel Grants: Application deadline, March 14; deliver to LL 423.
- Film Club: Thursday March 15, 11:30 – 1:00, SL 24L
- Film Club: Thursday April 5, 11:30 – 1:00, SL 24L
- Film Club: Thursday April 12, 11:30 – 1:00, SL 24L
- Film Club: Thursday April 19, 11:30 – 1:00, SL 24L
- Film Club: Thursday April 26, 11:30 – 1:00, SL 24L
- Film Club: Thursday May 3, 11:30 – 1:00, SL 24L
- End of the year Student Film Festival: Thurs. May 3, 6:00 pm SL 24 L
SENIOR EXHIBITIONS
BUTLER GALLERY
- Kathleen Flynn & Nick Rapillo, Mar 5 – 17
- Chloe Lin & Liam Costello, Mar 18 – Apr 11
- George Horihan & Rayna Weingord, Apr 12 – 24
- Emma DiMarco & Matt Scheffler, Apr 25 – May 7
- Aseah Kahn & Erin O’Flynn, May 8 – 21
LIPANI GALLERY
- Marc Deitz, Feb 23
- Perla Troncoso, Sophia Chelnitsky & Mayra Gutierrez, Mar 9 – Apr 7
- Masha Bychkova, Apr 8 – 21
- Arthur Banach, Apr 22 – May 5
- Sam Robbins, May 6 – 21
Leave Me Alone With the Recipes: The Life, Art and Cookbook of Cipe Pineles
Leave Me Alone With the Recipes: The Life, Art and Cookbook of Cipe Pineles
The Ildiko Butler Gallery
October 17-January 21
Opening reception and book signing with editors Sarah Rich and Wendy MacNaughton:
Tuesday, October 17, 2017 6-8pm
Curators: Wendy MacNaughton and Sarah Rich
Exhibition Advisor: Debbie Millman
Exhibition Coordinator: Abby Goldstein

Mark Alice Durant: 27 Contexts An Anecdotal History in Photography
Visual Arts presents a reading with
Mark Alice Durant 27 Contexts An Anecdotal History in Photography
Monday October 16 6:30 PM in SL 24 L
Mark Alice Durant is an artist and writer living in Baltimore. His essays have appeared in numerous journals such as Art in America, Aperture, Dear Dave, and Afterimage, and many catalogs, monographs and anthologies. With Jane D. Marsching, he was co-curator and co-author of Blur of the Otherworldly: Contemporary Art, Technology and the Paranormal. He was co-curator and co-author of the traveling exhibition Some Assembly Required: Collage Culture in Post War America and curator of Celestial at the Camera Club of New York and Notes on Monumentality at the Baltimore Museum of Art. He is a professor in the Department of Visual Art at the University of Maryland. In 2011 he started the website Saint-Lucy.com which is devoted to writing about photography and contemporary art.
Sponsored by the Visual Arts Program
Visual Arts Events
June 8 – Oct 2, 2017
Sit Beside Me: Between Other and Author
Interpersonal Documentaries from the UnionDocs Collaborative Studio
Lipani Gallery
June 27 – Oct 2, 2017
Location, Location, Location
Ildiko Butler Gallery
Wednesday, Sep 13, 2017
6 – 8 pm
Reception: Location, Location, Location
Ildiko Butler Gallery
Tuesday, Sep 19, 2017
6 pm
Artist Talk: Multidisciplinary Artist and Designer Michelle Elzay
SL24H
Thursday, Sep 28, 2017
11:30 am – 1 pm
Fordham Filmmaking Club meeting
SL24L
Thursday, Oct 5 , 2017
11:30 am – 1 pm
Fordham Filmmaking Club meeting
SL24L
Tuesday, Oct 10, 2017
5:30 pm
Urban Walk: From New Amsterdam to Ground Zero
Contact Colin Cathcart (cathcart@fordham.edu) for more info
Tuesday, Oct 10, 2017
6 pm
Artists in Conversation: Martha Clippinger & Amie Cunat
SL24H
Thursday, Oct 12, 2017
11:30 am – 1 pm
Fordham Filmmaking Club meeting
SL24L
Monday, Oct 16, 2017
6:30 pm
Reading by Mark Alice Durant: 27 Contexts: An Anecdotal History
in Photography
SL24L
Oct 17, 2017 – Jan 21, 2018
Cipe Pineles: Leave Me Alone with the Recipes
Ildiko Butler Gallery
Tuesday, Oct 17, 2017
6 pm
Reception: Cipe Pineles: Leave Me Alone with the Recipes
Ildiko Butler Gallery
Tuesday, Oct 17, 2017
6 pm
Guest Speaker: Writer, Artist, and Co-founder of Svetlana Gallery
Bosko Blagojevic
SL24H
Wednesday, Oct 18, 2017
3 pm
MANDATORY Majors’ Reception
Lipani Gallery in the Visual Arts Complex
Thursday, Oct 19, 2017
11:30 am – 1 pm
Fordham Filmmaking Club meeting
SL24L
Thursday, Oct 26, 2017
11:30 am – 1 pm
Guest Speaker: French Cinematographer Caroline Champetier
SL24L at Fordham Filmmaking Club
Thursday, Nov 2, 2017
11:30 am – 1 pm
Fordham Filmmaking Club meeting
SL24L
Thursday, Nov 2, 2017
6 – 7 pm
Artist Talk: Zac Seeger
room TBA
Tuesday, Nov 7, 2017
5:30 pm
Urban Walk: From Jane Jacobs House to the Stonewall Inn
Contact Colin Cathcart (cathcart@fordham.edu) for more info
Thursday, Nov 9, 2017
11:30 am – 1 pm
Fordham Filmmaking Club meeting
SL24L
Tuesday, Nov 21, 2017
5:30 pm
Urban Walk: From Hughs Hall to the Arthur Avenue Market
Contact Colin Cathcart (cathcart@fordham.edu) for more info
Thursday, Nov 16, 2017
11:30 am – 1 pm
Fordham Filmmaking Club meeting
SL24L
Thursday, Nov 30, 2017
11:30 am – 1 pm
Fordham Filmmaking Club meeting
SL24L
Wednesday, Dec 6, 2017
10 am
Application deadline: Senior Review
Contact Casey Ruble, caseyruble@gmail.com
Dec 6, 2017 – Jan 19, 2018
Senior Seminar Highlights
Lipani Gallery
Friday, Dec 8, 2017
6 pm
Fordham Student Film Festival
SL24L
Mar 1, 2018
Enrollment deadline: VART 3500 Documentary Photography in Italy
Program dates May 30 – Jun 29
Contact Joe Lawton (jlawton@fordham.edu) or
Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock (tattarrattat@gmail.com)
Mar – May, 2018
Senior Thesis Exhibitions
Ildiko Butler Gallery

NYC Premiere of Oiltowns, a film by Mark Street
Join Prof. Mark Street for the NYC Premiere of Oiltowns on Tuesday, May 9 at 9pm at Cinema Village as part of the Worker’s Unite Film Festival where it will screen with the film The Coal Minority.
Oiltowns (41 minutes, 2017)
Tuesday, May 9 at 9pm
Cinema Village
22 East 12th Street
Tickets available here for $8-10 or can be purchased at the door
About the Film:
In 2011, I started hearing about the oilfields of North Dakota; a place where itinerant workers lived in mancamps, local residents were being priced out of their homes and oil flares lit up the sky.
I went there to film over the course of four years, and then created an impressionistic portrait of this place by interviewing workers, long time residents, and a Native American who talks about the environmental impact. I also recorded the astounding and awful intrusions of oil machinery on the landscape. Here is the trailer:
https://youtu.be/ocBgEJSUPdI
Visual Arts Students Featured in Ars Nova 2017
https://youtu.be/7vl-xiviyjs