Getting Back to Work: A Spring Scholarship Auction for Columbia University

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From May 11th-31st Columbia University School of the Arts is hosting a virtual Spring Scholarship Auction to raise fellowship support for our student artists, playwrights, filmmakers, actors, directors, producers, and writers. 

Browse and bid now on behind-the-scenes art experiences, limited-edition prints from the LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies at Columbia University, and more. 

All proceeds from the auction, as well as donations, will support scholarship funds for MFA students at the School of the Arts.

Join us as we celebrate a diverse community of talented students who will represent the next generation of ground-breaking artists to shape our world.

Contributions above the fair market value of each auction item is fully tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.

About the School of the Arts

Columbia University School of the Arts is a thriving, diverse community of talented, visionary, and committed artists from around the world. The School has a tradition of risk-taking, grounded in an Ivy League university, energized by its New York City location, and strengthened by a faculty comprised of acclaimed and internationally renowned artists, film and theatre directors, writers of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, playwrights, producers, critics, and scholars. 

School of the Arts Dean's Council

Katharina Otto-Bernstein (Chair)
Ramona Bronkar Bannayan
Albert Berger
Janice Chan-Choy
Jacob Collins
Erik Feig
Wendy Finerman
Michel Hausmann
Nancy Lemann

Grace Leone
Carolyn Lowe
Winston Lowe
Pamela McCorduck
Joe Pizza
Lauren Rosenkranz
Eric Roth
Steve Schwartz
Jeffrey Sharp

Ron Simons
Patricia M. Sovern
Jeremy Smith
Betty Lee Stern
Leonard Tow
Barbara Whitman
Beau Willimon
Henry Woo

With gratitude to our Auction Contributors

Ramin Bahrani
Ramona Bannayan
Albert Berger
Janice Chan-Choy
Melissa Clark
Greg and Christina Gaw Donohugh
Peter Farrelly
Erik Feig
Wendy Finerman
Michel Hausmann

Annette Insdorf
David Henry Hwang
Tom Kitt and Rita Pietropinto Kitt
Victor LaValle
Phillip Lopate
Neiman Center for Print Studies
Orhan Pamuk
Richard Pena
Joe Pizza
Eric Roth

The Shubert Organization, Inc.
Ron Simons
Patricia Sovern
Sarah Sze
Len Tow
Beau Willimon