Be part of the prestigious Edinburgh Television Conference Network program-for a select group of young people focused on careers in the industry. 

The University Concert Band and University Orchestra are comprised of talented student musicians drawn from all of Drexel’s Colleges and Schools who are playing at an impressively high level. This term both ensembles will welcome renowned professional musicians to collaborate on their upcoming performances in the Fall Concert Series.

Kyle Abraham, the critically acclaimed choreographer and dancer, recipient of a MacArthur Genius Grant and Artistic Director of Abraham.In.Motion will visit on Thursday, December 1 for a lecture, free and open to the public starting at 7pm in Mitchell Auditorium (3141 Market Street). 

Five of our talented Product Design undergraduate students had their designs on display at the Philadelphia Museum of Art as part of the annual Collab Student Design Competition. 

Lynn Povich, an award winning journalist and author of THE GOOD GIRLS REVOLT: How the Women of Newsweek Sued Their Bosses and Changed the Workplace– the inspiration for the new Amazon original series Good Girls Revolt, will visit on Thursday, November 17 for a screening and book signing event that is free and open to the public in our URBN Annex Screening Room starting at 7pm. The event is presented by the Kal and Lucille Rudman Institute for Entertainment Industry Studies.

Michael Ludwig, Concertmaster of Philly POPS, the largest standalone pops orchestra in the United States, and world-class soloist will lead a master class on Monday, November 14 at 6:30pm in the Main Auditorium.

Over the last 20 years, our Design & Merchandising Program’s Visual Merchandising community window partnership has beautified and enlivened numerous retail window displays for stores throughout the City. Twenty jury members representing different companies from across the City judge the entries and our student designed and installed windows were the only finalists in the category of Best Window Design.

Our Graphic Design Program had an outstanding summer receiving recognition from The University & College Designers Association (UCDA) Annual competition, The Journal of Art & Design’s Creative Quarterly 45, and the Annual GDUSA American Graphic Design Awards. 

Drexel’s Museum Leadership Program will welcome celebrated Philadelphia artist, John Dowell Jr., for a lecture on Wednesday, October 26 at 5:15pm in the URBN Annex Screening Room.

National Endowment for the Art’s Big Read Festival and Drexel’s Writers Room are paying tribute to one of the pre-eminent writers of twentieth-century African-American literature, Zora Neale Hurston and her novel “Their Eyes Were Watching Gods”. Included in the events is a presentation of the creative outcomes developed during Dance Professor Tania Issac’s four-week long workshop re-interpreting Hurston’s text which will be presented on Saturday, October 29 at 7:00pm in Van Rensselaer Hall.

The Project HOME Art Program empowers homeless men, women, and low-income families to express their personal journeys through art-making. With ongoing partnerships between Project HOME and Drexel, Westphal will host its third Artists for All Seasons exhibition featuring the works of select Project HOME artists.

As part of Drexel University’s 125th anniversary, two of our Graphic Design seniors created logos that will be used in the year’s upcoming events.

With a city full of rich Italian-American culture and history, we’re excited to host two fantastic projects, free and open to the public on Sunday, October 16th as part of the 3rd Annual Ciao Philadelphia, the Italian Cultural Month with diverse programming running through October with events in Philadelphia and throughout the region.

Our Product Design Program has forged a new partnership with the international, high-end audio manufacturer, Devialet, to develop new products, prototypes and ways to extend their product line by expanding awareness and use by design professionals and consumers.

On Thursday, October 13th, The Department of Architecture & Interiors’ Arfaa Lecture will feature Harris Steinberg, Distinguished Teaching Professor and the Executive Director of the Lindy Institute for Urban Innovation, and Gerard Sweeney, President of Brandywine Realty Trusts for a panel discussion entitled Town and Gown: Creating Schuylkill Yards, focusing on the major development plans for West Philadelphia being led by Drexel in partnership with Brandywine.

On Friday, October 14th we’ll host the Design Research Symposium, a series of events that explore the emerging field growing out of the work of artists, designers and interdisciplinary collaborators whose investigations push the boundaries of traditional disciplines, requiring interdisciplinary approaches, the mastery of new technologies, and intensive research to unearth solutions to practical and aesthetic problems.

Drexel's Co-op Theatre Company will welcome Eric Davis, aka Red Bastard, whose work as a preeminent buffoon and physical theater artist of our time will charm, disarm, shock, and amuse you.

The highly respected DesignIntelligence, published by the Design Futures Council, has just released its ranking of top Interior Design schools for 2016-17.

The Westphal College will be quite active in this year’s DesignPhiladelphia, the annual citywide celebration of design and creative activity. Our participation will include the Design Research Symposium on Friday October 14^th in the URBN Center.

The prestigious London-based fashion trade publication, Business of Fashion, recently released their rankings and have our Fashion programs as #3 in the United States and #11 in the world. College Factual, which produces USA Today’s College Guide, new rankings have Westphal as #5 nationally out of 223 schools in the category of Best Design and Applied Arts Schools.

This summer, several of our 2016 graduates, undergraduates, and alumni are driving to Connecticut to shoot their first feature film, DWELLING.  The project was developed over the 2015-16 school year with a collective mindset and written for a micro budget.

For the sixth year, Westphal students from Film & Video, Screenwriting & Playwriting, Television, Digital Media, and related programs will travel to Los Angeles for the Drexel in LA experience.

For the fourth year, Westphal will host a one-week cultural exchange program with Japan's Tamagawa University students this September.

Acclaimed French choreographer Boris Charmatz will come to Drexel this September for a series of important and exciting dance performances, master classes, and a public workshop series entitled Dancing Dialogues.

The Black Box Theater is excited to premier (NO)E(XIT)N-TRANCE, a new multimedia dance theater work directed by Manfred Fishbeck and Group Motion Dance that was created in collaboration with Nick Jushchyshyn, Program Director for Animation & Visual Effects.

The Westphal College invites all graduating students, their families and faculty of the College to honor our graduating class of 2016 at the Pennsylvania Convention Center.

As the end of our academic year comes near, the Department of Performing Arts will enliven our campus with a variety of performances from May 13th - June 5th.

The 2016 Photography senior theses will be on view in the Leonard Pearlstein Gallery (3401 Filbert Street) from June 3rd – June 6th, with an opening reception on Friday, June 3rd at 6pm.

The Drexel Interiors Group (DIG) will host the 2016 Interior Design Senior Show of the best work of the graduating class, including their year-long senior projects, on Thursday, June 9th from 6:00pm to 9:00pm in the URBN Center lobby (3501 Market Street).

The 2016 Product Design senior class, the third graduating class from this exciting program, will present their thesis work on Friday, May 27th in the Leonard Pearlstein Gallery (3401 Filbert Street) from 4:30-7:30pm.

The fun begins at 11:00 AM on Thursday, June 9th at the International House (3710 Chestnut Street), when 18 senior directors will screen their projects.

Also from the Cinema & Television department, Seniors from the Screenwriting & Playwriting Program will present their capstone projects for 2016 in University Crossings 028 (3715 JFK Blvd) on Wednesday, June 8th at 7pm.

Get ready for an impressive presentation of senior projects and graduate research at the 2016 Digital Media Senior Show & Expo on Sunday, June 5th at the International House (3701 Chestnut St.).

Please join us to see the collections and creations of both undergraduate and graduate Fashion Design students at Fashion ’16 on Saturday, June 4th at the beautiful URBN Outfitters Corporate Headquarters (5000 South Broad Street).

Join us on May 3^rd for a live performance by talented musicians, Courtney Bryana and Brandee Younger as part of Alice Coltrane: Legacy and Inspirations from 5:30-7:30pm in the A.J. Drexel Picture Gallery (3141 Chestnut Street, 3^rd Floor, Main Building). 

A new collaboration between Drexel’s Center for Cultural Partnerships and the African American Museum in Philadelphia (AAMP) will have Westphal students in the graduate Arts Administration and Museum Leadership, and students from our Architecture and Interior Design programs working closely with the Museum.

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Professor Joseph Hancock will lead a special summer course focused on retailing and brand engagement in Las Vegas. Students will examine fashion and retailing as they intersect with the the glamor, glitz and kitsch of this tourist mecca. 

In April, our Product Design Program was ranked one of the top 30 Industrial Design Degrees by College Values Online, and the ranking spoke specifically to the lasting value of acquiring this Westphal Degree. 

Nurturing Emergent Synthetic Life (NESL), a 6-minute short film by Professor Nicole Koltick, Director of the Design Futures Lab, produced in collaboration collaboration with Film & Television Professor Jocelyn Tarquini-Motter and Dragon Productions, will premiere on Wednesday, May 4^th at 6pm in the URBN Annex Screening Room.

With the help of a Westphal Mini-Grant, the MSL is under re-construction as Robert Lloyd, Digital Media and Game Design & Production Professor, and students work feverishly to make needed repairs and updates. 

Expect the unexpected in our Co-op Theater Company’s production of Little Shop of Horrors opening this May, appropriately on Friday the 13^th, in the URBN Annex Black Box Theater (3401 Filbert St.).

We are pleased to co-sponsor the appearance of Laverne Cox, activist and star of Orange is the New Black, as the 2016 Power of Inclusion Speaker. On Tuesday, May 10^th at 6pm, Ms. Cox will speak to a full-house at the Mandell Theater (3201 Chestnut Street).

A screening of Education INC will take place on Wednesday, April 27th at 6:30pm, followed by a panel discussion. 

The ArtistYear program provides a unique opportunity for Westphal students graduating this year and alumni up to the age of 28 to make a difference by creating unique arts programs and classes in an underserved Philadelphia public school. 

Producer William Horberg will participate in a Q&A session as part of the Pennoni Honors College “Great Works Symposium”.

Ken Downing, Neiman Marcus’ Senior Vice President and Fashion Director, will visit Westphal on Thursday, April 21^st.  

A new episode of The Pretentious Film Majors (PFM) will air on Friday, April 15^th at 8pm on DUTV, Drexel’s Television station carried throughout Philadelphia on Comcast channels 54 and 62 and Verizon channel 37.

The Dance Program will host the Pennsylvania Ballet’s rehearsal of O Zlozony/O Composite, a piece by the iconic post-modernist American choreographer, Trisha Brown.

The Department of Defense has announced $75 million in funding for a national research institute, the Advanced Functional Fabrics of America (AFFOA), emphasizing the combination of technology and textiles towards developing new materials for American textile manufactures and market places across varying industries. Drexel will chair the Mid-Atlantic chapter. 

Five high school students will receive scholarships to attend our summer Music Industry program, thanks to the generous support of the Will and Jada Smith Family Foundation. 

Photographer Harvey Wang lecture and screening

Several faculty have received funding through our Minigrants and Creativity Awards program for innovative work

Students win Best Game award at Game Developers Conference in San Francisco

A new intensive study abroad course

Paper-cutting artist Shu Kobu will lead a week of workshops in April 

Professor Isaac and Meredith Rainey present new duet: (In)Visible

Fellowship opportunities for recent graduates to lead arts curriculum in Philadelphia public schools

Latest episode of student-produced monthly TV news magazine

Our Gaming program received top 2016 rankings from the Princeton Review

Items from the Fox Historic Costume Collection will travel to Doylestown’s Michener Museum this spring for the exhibition Philadelphia in Style: A Century of Fashion, celebrating the city’s sartorial legacy with a fabulous display of garments and accessories created, purchased, and worn in Philadelphia between 1896 and the mid-1990s.