���ϲ�����

���ϲ�����’s College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) has announced that Ralph Zito, a theater professional in voice, text and dialects who most recently served as the chair of the Juilliard School Drama Division’s voice and speech department, has been named chair of the Department of Drama.

The ���ϲ����� Summer Dance Intensive program, administered by University College and co-sponsored by SU’s College of Visual and Performing Arts, has brought students from as far away as Europe and California to participate in one of the premier dance programs in the United States. Now in its fifth year, the students, ages 12 to 18, have the privilege of studying with internationally acclaimed teachers and guest artists during two- or three-week sessions.

No Child . . ., a nationally acclaimed one-person show documenting a teacher’s struggles and triumphs in New York City’s public school system, will run Sept. 21—Oct. 10 in the Storch Theatre as an off-subscription special presentation in ���ϲ����� Stage’s 2010/2011 season.

���ϲ�����’s College of Visual and Performing Arts will present “white elephant,” its second annual New York City show by master of fine arts degree candidates, June 2-6 at Dumbo Arts Center, 30 Washington St., Brooklyn.

VPA will present its annual fashion show “Vision with Action” in New York City on Thursday, June 10, at 7:30 p.m. at JPMorgan Chase, One Chase Manhattan Plaza, 60th floor.

Beginning in fall 2010, the College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) will be accepting applications for an undergraduate interdisciplinary visual culture minor.

William Cleveland, the director of the Center for the Study of Art and Community (CSA&C) on Bainbridge Island, Wash., will deliver the keynote address at the College of Visual and Performing Arts’ convocation ceremony on Saturday, May 15.

The Department of Drama in the College of Visual and Performing Arts has announced its 2010/2011 season.

Work by longtime VPA faculty members John Orentlicher, Michael Sickler and Barbara Ellen Walter will be presented in the exhibition “Contemporary Practices in the Arts” May 6-June 30 at the Louise and Bernard Palitz Gallery at Joseph I. Lubin House.

August Wilson’s “Fences” will open May 5 at ���ϲ����� Stage.