On February 21 and 22, 2020, the Drexel Chamber Singers and guest performers take you back in time for an evening of madrigals, chansons, lute songs, and lieds with the 30th Annual Madrigal Dinners in the Great Court of Drexel University’s Main Building. This year, audiences will be transported to the Elizabethan sounds, tastes, and courtly improvisations of 1590.

The Drexel Dance Ensemble and FreshDance kick off their 2020 season with two dynamic concerts in the Mandell Theater from January 30th - February 1st, 2020 and February 7th - 8th, 2020. These performances provide Drexel students, regardless of their major, an opportunity to express their artistry through dance performance or choreography.

The Leonard Pearlstein Gallery and Drexel University are excited to announce that internationally acclaimed, multidisciplinary artist, Brendan Fernandes will kick-off their 2020 programming with a solo exhibition entitled, We Want a We. This exhibition – showcasing a diverse blend of performative, sculptural, and photographic works from the past five years – will mark the first retrospective in Philadelphia of this important artist’s work.

Associate Teaching Professor of Film & Television John Avarese is a musician, composer, and sound professional with over 40 feature film credits (not to mention countless short films and surround-sound planetarium features). He runs a production company, Three Professors Media, with Westphal colleagues Karin Kelly (Department Head of Cinema & Television) and Matt Kaufhold (Program Director of Screenwriting & Playwriting). For his upcoming project, The Arrangement, he’s handling all aspects of audio post-production, which has led to interesting collaborations within Westphal and across the University. We spoke with John about what’s going on behind the scenes of The Arrangement, which stars Eric Roberts (The Dark Knight, Runaway Train) and is expected for release this year.

Five Design & Merchandising and Fashion Design students received $5,000 awards from the 2020 Fashion Scholarship Fund—the largest fashion scholarship program in the world.

Tara Boonngamanong and Note Nuchprayoon, second-year students in the Game Design & Production major at Drexel’s Westphal College of Media Arts & Design, won first place (with a prize of $20,000) in the second phase of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ game challenge.