Sofi Thanhauser, adjunct associate professor – CCE of Writing, explores the history of the “war on cancer” in an essay for the Virginia Quarterly Review. “Buried beneath this evergreen drama of illness and cure, the promise of miracle biotech breakthroughs and heroic survivorship, is the story of how American business interests helped to steer politicians away from stopping the cancer epidemic at the source; how they helped to generate a mania for curing the disease and obstructed the analytic and moral clarity required to prevent it. Actually preventing cancer—far preferable to curing it, if less interesting—would mean asking why our cancer rates are so high in the first place.”
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A roundup of ideas and projects from around the Institute
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The Pratt Center for Community Development shared an update on three of the 2025–2026 Taconic Fellows.
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Alyssa Fanning, BFA Fine Arts ’07, has been awarded a 2026 Individual Artist Fellowship in Painting from the New Jersey State Council of the Arts.
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Adjunct Professor – CCE of Fine Arts Jean Shin discussed her approach to art in a video for her Artist-in-Residence in Everglades (AIRIE) 2025–2026 AIRIE Fellowship.
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Inside My Worn Out Drawer, is an Ocean by Siwoo Kim, BFA Film ’25, will premiere at the 2026 National Film Festival for Talented Youth (NFFTY) in the “Pedal to the Mettle” block on Friday, March 27. The animated short follows Jooni, who, after running out on a suicide pact, wanders around Seoul and meets a classmate from elementary school.
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Sydney Lipner, Emily Morillo, Mikey Rodriguez, and Vicky Zhang, all BFA/MA Art and Design Education ’26, have been awarded a Graduate Student Engagement Fund (GSEF) grant for their proposal, “Accessible Culturally-Responsive Art Education in Puerto Rico.”
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Visiting Assistant Professor of Fine Arts Claudia Bitrán was featured in artnet. Her show, Claudia Bitrán: Titanic, A Deep Emotion, on view at Cristin Tierney Gallery, “marks the New York premiere of [her] reimagining of the James Cameron film, crafted with a variety of disciplines from drawing and painting to performance and sculpture.”
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Associate Professor of Writing Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts will present her work at the launch of The Device, a new publication focused on the archives and history of the Poetry Project.
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Chair of Graduate Architecture, Landscape, and Urban Design Andrew Holder’s firm, The Los Angeles Design Group, has been chosen to construct a public installation for the 2026 Coachella Valley Music Festival. “‘Visage Brut’ reimagines the logic and mythology of a totem pole through the language of contemporary construction.”
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