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Picture Yourself at Purchase
You don’t take a photograph, you make it.
—Ansel Adams
Layers of colorful experiences and exposure to new ideas mix with the knowledge you absorb, skills you acquire, people you meet, places you go, and a picture emerges—it’s your future coming into focus.
When you set foot on the Purchase campus, you know immediately there’s something different about this place. You’ll feel the buzz from the mash up of the visual and performing arts with the liberal arts and sciences all on one campus.
Boundaries blur, collaboration rules, and being an artist or writer or performer or scientist or philosopher is never synonymous with your major.
And Think Wide Open is so much more than our motto, it’s living proof of our creative and inclusive culture.
If you stand out, this is where you’ll fit in. We can picture you here. See for yourself.
Choose Your Path
Percentage of 2022 graduates employed, enrolled in graduate or professional school, or both: 92%
#PurchasePride
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Check Out the Artists and Hackers Podcast
Artists and Hackers is a podcast on art, code, and community.
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Purchase The First to Tour LaGuardia’s Premier Public Art Collection
The Global Studies class Place, Space and Belonging experienced the transformational renovations at LaGuardia airport’s Terminals C and B.
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Purchase-Bred Lip Critic a “Band to Watch”
Stereogum and others delve into their unique sound ahead of the May 17 release of their debut album Hex Dealer.
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Debut Novel by Emily Ruth Verona ’12 Released
The New York Times describes Midnight on Beacon Street as “an impressive debut.”
Coming Up
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Apr
29
Durst Lecture: Echoes from the Borderlands: A Sonic Essay Presented by Valeria Luiselli, Leonardo Heiblum, and Ricardo Giraldo
Time: 6:00pmA fascinating sonic essay that documents the histories of violence against land and bodies in the US-Mexico borderlands. Soundscapes, music, poetry, essays, interviews, and archival material interweave in this experimental sound piece.
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May
1
Film+Music: Glassworks/Sonic Visions
Time: 7:00pmThe culmination of the weekly School of Film and Media Studies Screening Series for 2023-24, “Glassworks Sonic Visions” is the result of a year of collaboration between the Purchase Symphony Orchestra and Experimental Workshop student filmmakers. Crafting visuals in response to Glassworks (1982) composed by Philip Glass, the filmmakers have produced a series of short pieces as accompaniment to the orchestra’s performance. They have also produced visual interludes between Glass’s original movements for musicians to respond to with improvisation as well as a new selection of eclectic musical arrangements chosen in response to the images, a dynamic volley of picture and sound that will produce something entirely new witnessed for the first and last time by tonight’s audience.
Register for Glassworks here.
