Alumni News

Remembering Judith Jones Remembering Judith Jones: An Audacious Life

Judith Jones '45, longtime editor at Alfred A. Knopf, who championed the Diary of Anne Frank and the publication of Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking, has died. She was 93. 

Fred Hampton Book by Haas MFA ’07 Being Adapted for Film

A book by Jeffrey Haas MFA ’07 on the 1969 assassination of Fred Hampton, deputy chairman of the Black Panther Party, is being developed into a movie by Antoine Fuqua, director of Training Day, The Equalizer, and The Magnificent Seven.

Lane 1974 Chiro '87 on the Long Road to “Lane 1974”

The Seattle Film Festival interviewed SJ Chiro '87 about the near-decade-long journey bring her her debut film, Lane 1974, to the screen.

Philemona Williamson Metaphorical Narratives

The first major retrospective exhibition of Philemona Williamson '73 will be on view at Montclair Art Museum in New Jersey from September 16 through January 7, 2018.

Expanding Abstraction Expanding Abstraction

A painting by Helen Frankenthaler '49 is included in the "Expanding Abstraction" exhibition currently on view at the deCordova Scuplture Park and Museum, in Lincoln, MA, through September 17.