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Columbia University Arts Initiative has re-launched its innovative Web site, www.cuarts.com. Effective March 1, users have broader access to information about the vast number of arts events available to them, easier navigation through the times, dates and places of events both on campus and off, and greater opportunity to take advantage of free or discounted admission as students of Columbia University.
In addition to the improved look and navigation of the Web site, the Arts Initiative has expanded the "Columbia University Passport to New York" program, which now offers all current CU students free access to 27 museums and cultural centers citywide, a jump from 12 at the beginning of the academic year. A few of the new additions to the program include the International Center for Photography, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and PS1/MoMA. To obtain an updated passport, email cuarts@columbia.edu, call the Arts Initiative at 212-851-1872, or stop by Prentis Hall, room 206.
Caralyn Spector, project coordinator for the Arts Initiative, is enthusiastic about the swelling ranks of New York City cultural resources available gratis to the student community. "This expansion will encourage all students, graduate and undergraduate alike, to make the arts a part of their everyday lives," she said.
The Columbia University Arts Initiative, directed by Gregory Mosher, was launched by President Lee C. Bollinger in February 2004. It aims to nurture the work of Columbia's nearly 150 arts groups, link the university to the artistic diversity of New York City, connect the arts to other ways of understanding the world, provide support for art that would not otherwise thrive, and help prepare a new generation of artists. Its Web site, www.cuarts.com, came out of conversations with hundreds of students who, prior to its inception, had no central place to learn about or track the arts on campus, in the neighborhood and around town.
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