Grants awarded by the Cornell Council for the Arts (CCA) this month will support 45 arts projects on campus this academic year, including exhibitions, concerts and conferences.

Cornell faculty, departments and programs received 19 grants; and 26 projects by students and student organizations were awarded. Funding decisions were based on project ideas, artistic merit, work that expands the boundaries of a particular discipline, and projects' potential impact on the community at large.

Nine student organizations -- Fanclub Collective, the Museum Club, History of Art Majors Society, Writer's Bloc, Cornell Contemporary Chamber Players, Cornell Taiko (Yamatai), Melodramatics Theatre Company, ASHA and Contrapunkt! -- and 17 student projects each received awards of up to $1,000.

Piotr Chizinski, MFA '13 in the Department of Art, will install an exhibition of paper models depicting a city fragmented by flooding, "FEMA CLASS," in Milstein Hall in December, with participation from students in the College of Architecture, Art and Planning.

Taylan Cihan, DMA '12 in the Department of Music, will present concerts, a sound installation and a conference on music, cognition and technology, May 11-13, 2012, in the A.D. White House and Milstein Hall, with guest composer Joshua Parmenter and Cornell and Ithaca College performers and composers.

Katherine Somody, MFA '13 in the Department of Art, will present "Call Me," comprising an interactive public video installation in the Ithaca community and a May exhibition in Tjaden Gallery.

Students Alexandra Riggs (for Cornell University Sustainable Design), Sophie Hochhaeusl (for Convivium Conversations), Shuping Liu, Michelle Tianhui Chen, Elizabeth Corkery, Roxanne Yamins, Gaby Wolodarski and Daren Kendall, LaiYee Ho, Lacie Buckwalter, Kimberly Wilczak, Jorge Silva, Anya Gibian, Matilda Ceesay and Emily Parkinson also received project grants.

CCA grants of up to $2,500 are supporting faculty work, and departments and programs bringing visiting artists to campus or presenting special programming.

The Department of Music received seven grants for concerts and residencies by visiting artists including sound artist Pauline Oliveros and the Johannes Schaefli Orchestra.

Visiting assistant professor of art Carl Ostendarp is organizing an exhibition, "Fat Cakes/Myopic Void," Jan. 27-March 25, 2012, at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, combining artworks from 1965-1972 in the museum's collection, two painted murals by Ostendarp, and soul, jazz and psychedelic music of the era.

Jumay Chu, theatre, film and dance, received support for a Feb. 10 event with performance artist, dancer and filmmaker Catherine Galasso '06, a former Cornell Undergraduate Artist Award recipient.

Assistant professors of theater Nick Salvato and Sara Warner are organizing "Resoundingly Queer," a conference examining contemporary studies of gender and sexuality, March 31-April 1, 2012, at the Schwartz Center, with performances, visiting artists and keynote speaker filmmaker John Waters.

Risley Artist-in-Residence Natalie Tyler will curate "LUX Art," a light art exhibition in Willard Straight Hall, in collaboration with graduate students, visiting artists and lecturer in physics Robert Lieberman.

"Rasa: In Theory, Practice and Performance," a South Asia Program symposium March 31-April 1, 2012, will examine rasa (the aesthetic expression of emotion in performance) in music, dance and theater.

Also receiving grants: Graduate Artist's Group; Institute for African Development; Southeast Asia Program; Slava Paperno, comparative literature; Huiju Park, fiber science and apparel design; visiting artist in theatre, film and dance Godfrey Simmons; and Byron Suber, theatre, film and dance (for Locally Grown Dance Festival, March 7-11).

"I was happy to see some real interdisciplinary project ideas and pleased to have had a fairly wide distribution of departments represented in the applications process," said CCA Director Stephanie Owens, visiting assistant professor of art. "Receiving a grant was more competitive this year, which I hope will inspire future applicants to apply with only the best and most challenging projects."

Full details are available at http://www.cca.cornell.edu.