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Undergraduate Open House

March 3


Come visit us in Chicago’s South Loop, take it all in, ask questions, get answers, and find out if Columbia is the right school for you.

Open House

Columbia Hits Park City

During Sundance Film Festival


Columbia College Chicago had a big presence in Park City, Utah, January 20-23, including a presentation with Len Amato (BA '75), president of HBO Films.

Len Amato 

Bob McNamara (BA '66)

Emmy Award-Winning Journalist


As a Columbia student, this seasoned storyteller says working professors showed him the path to success: "These were folks who knew what they were doing because they were doing it every day."

Bob McNamara 

Announcing Marginalia

the New Graduate Student Blog


15 graduate students are now blogging about their experience at Columbia. Find out who they are, what they're working on, and why they chose Columbia College Chicago for advanced study in the arts, media, and communications.

Marginalia 

Brian Dettmer (BA '97)

A Real Bookworm


This Atlanta-based artist transforms the pages of old books into new masterpieces. In the process, he asks us to consider how books are endangered by new media.

Brian Dettmer 
 Driehaus Foundation helps fund Columbia College Chicago Press publication, “Architecture of Segregation,” a volume of essays focused on the relationship between place and race.
CCC Press Receives Driehaus Grant
Driehaus Foundation helps fund Columbia College Chicago Press publication, “Architecture of Segregation,” a volume of essays focused on the relationship between place and race.
Musicians Meshell Ndegeocello and Christian McBride visit Columbia for student interactive discussion and performance with the Chicago Jazz Ensemble.
All That Jazz
Musicians Meshell Ndegeocello and Christian McBride visit Columbia for student interactive discussion and performance with the Chicago Jazz Ensemble.
Funding from the National Endowment for the Arts to the Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago and the Chicago Jazz Ensemble will support residencies and new works.
NEA Awards Grants to Columbia
Funding from the National Endowment for the Arts to the Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago and the Chicago Jazz Ensemble will support residencies and new works.
Columbia College Dance/Movement Therapy students create concert to raise money for MOVED, the student organization promoting Dance/Movement Therapy as a healing technique.
Concert raises funds for MOVED
Columbia College Dance/Movement Therapy students create concert to raise money for MOVED, the student organization promoting Dance/Movement Therapy as a healing technique.
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Events at Columbia
January 29, 2012
When is a photograph no longer just a photograph? To find out, join the Museum of Contemporary Photography for its new exhibition, “Limits of Photography.” The exhibition’s title ...
For the first time ever, The Royal Opera presents the story of Cinderella as told in Massenet’s opera "Cendrillon." Musical highlights include the fairy godmother’s airy ...