Arts + culture

SUNY Oswego launched the new student-run Hewitt Film Festival this spring in the recently renovated Hewitt Hall, now home to the College of Communication, Media and the Arts. The festival showcased emerging filmmakers while celebrating the transformation of the historic former student union into a modern creative hub for storytelling, media and artistic collaboration.

SUNY Oswego's Theatre Department hosted 400 high school theatre students and chaperones on Friday, April 24, for a full day of performances, workshops and collaborative learning on campus during its annual Dramafest.

For 14 SUNY Oswego students, Hollywood stopped being an idea or a vacation destination and became a place they could realistically enter as a career.

World-renowned trombonist, bandleader and educator Michael Davis will return to SUNY Oswego on May 6 and 7 to share his talents with the campus and community in two concerts and a jazz clinic.

Putting together the upcoming SUNY Oswego production of “All Shook Up,” opening April 16, has helped build meaningful hands-on experience for the cast and crew of the musical.

The SUNY Oswego Departments of Philosophy and Theatre will present "An Existential Staged Reading of Jean-Paul Sartre’s 'No Exit'" on Wednesday, April 8 at 4:30 p.m. in Tyler Hall's Lab Theatre. This event is free and open to the public.

SUNY Oswego’s spring musical “All Shook Up” will open on April 16, running two weekends and showcasing the hard work of student actors, singers, dancers and designers.

The SUNY Oswego Theatre Department recently welcomed students from the Oswego Homeschool Association (OHA) Performing Arts Theater Program for a collaborative visit celebrating performance, creativity and community engagement.

Running through April 3, the 63rd annual Juried Student Exhibition honors SUNY Oswego's student-driven focus by presenting an exhibit that is entirely for students — by students in Tyler Art Gallery.

English and creative writing faculty member Soma Mei Sheng Frazier recently became the first SUNY Oswego professor to author the book selected for summer campuswide reading through the longstanding Oswego Reading Initiative (ORI) with her novel “Off the Books”.