News
Every day someone from Tisch School of the Arts makes news. Here's where we share with you the incredible achievements of our students, alumni, faculty and friends.
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Congrats to our TIDAL Upload Headliners
Sunday, Mar 1, 2026
The Clive Davis Institute extends its warm congrats to students and alumni who were named among the 10 winners of the TIDAL Upload Headliners competition, each receiving $100K to use however they want.
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2026 BAFTA Winners
Monday, Feb 23, 2026
Congratulations to those in the Tisch community who won a 2026 BAFTA!
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ITP Faculty & Alumni Team featured in Wired, hosting workshop at TEI
Friday, Feb 13, 2026
"The Vape Synth is a project created by a group of makers in New York City who break apart spent Elf Bar nicotine vaporizers and hack them into digital musical instruments. The resulting device still looks like a vape cartridge, but with a small speaker nestled amid an array of lights and buttons. To play it, you put your mouth on it and draw your breath inward, like you would on a vape."
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André Lepecki Named Special Guest of International Conference on Creativity in Dance
Friday, Apr 17, 2026
Professor Lepecki is invited as "a leading international scholar whose contributions have fundamentally reshaped contemporary understandings of perception, embodiment, and meaning in dance."
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Staff Spotlight: Jordan Cruz: ‘The Seventh AIM Biennial’ Open House With Exhibiting Artists
Friday, Apr 17, 2026
“By collapsing boundaries between private mourning and collective experience, Brouckaert, Cruz, Lee, and Takeda consider how impermanent materials can bear enduring meaning, and how seemingly stable materials reveal their own instability. Together, they ask how art can memorialize loss without fixing it in place, and how care lies not only in preservation, but in allowing change.”
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Denise Stephanie Hewitt (‘24) for TEDxNYU
Thursday, Apr 16, 2026
Denise Stephanie Hewitt (‘24) will take the TEDxNYU stage for their Annual Conference, Constant Variable!
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2026 Tisch Gala a Stunning Celebration of Tisch Artistry
Thursday, Apr 16, 2026
On Monday, April 13th, 2026, NYU Tisch celebrated the 2026 Tisch Gala with extraordinary student performances, touching speeches, and honoring Cristóbal Valenzuela '18 (MPS, ITP) and Suzan-Lori Parks.
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Sol Cabrini Performance with Shirine Saad at Sisters in Brooklyn
Thursday, Apr 16, 2026
Sol Cabrini Performance with Shirine Saad at Sisters in Brooklyn
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TUG Collective Work Featured at Brooklyn Fine Art Print Fair
Wednesday, Apr 15, 2026
Collaborative Arts professor Gustavo Aguilar, co-founder of TUG Collective, had work featured at the Brooklyn Fine Art Print Fair.
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"Ricky" by Grad Film alum Rashad Frett receives Theatrical Release
Wednesday, Apr 15, 2026
The film will be released in theaters on April 24th.
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Grad Film Alum Jess X. Snow Featured in Criterion
Wednesday, Apr 15, 2026
Grad Film Alum Jess X. Snow was recently interviewed by Robin D. G. Kelley for The Criterion Collection.
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Grad Film Alum Chheangkea receives 2025 Black Family Feature Film Prize
Wednesday, Apr 15, 2026
Chheangkea is the 25’ recipient of the Black Family Feature Film Prize for his film “Little Phnom Penh”.
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DPI Presents: Spring 2026 IRL Workshops!
Tuesday, Apr 14, 2026
IRL on Real Life is a new, ongoing lecture and workshop series hosted by DPI Faculty and Staff. Each session will be open to all DPI students and will focus on a specific artistic or real-world skill necessary for emerging imagemaking artists to thrive personally and professionally.
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