Photography, Film, and Animation News

Rebecca J. DeRoo, newly named the William A. Kern Professor in Communications, aims to increase opportunities for scholarship in visual communication.

Recognizing the growing demand for globally fluent creatives, RIT has partnered with Prague’s Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts to launch a new student exchange program designed to prepare students for the realities of globalized creative industries.

"Evolve or Devolve" in University Gallery is a solo exhibition tracing Assistant Professor James Porto’s artistic journey from early innovations with analog photorealistic composites through the adoption of emerging digital tools. It's on view through Feb. 6.

A chance interaction between old classmates led to a rewarding design collaboration for the alumni-run furniture design studio Edgewood Made (George Dubinsky '11 and David Short '13) and Gunther Jacobson '12. Edgewood Made designed millwork and kitchen cabinetry for a luxury home that they then trusted Jacobson to install in the Miami area home.

Associate Professors Josh Meltzer and Jenn Poggi worked with Special Olympics and the Golisano Foundation to produced videos celebrating health leaders dedicated to improving the health and well-being of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

Through Into the ROC, a program that introduced nearly 8,500 RIT community members to the region since 2016, students have explored, volunteered, and built lasting community ties.

The goal of libraries, museums, and archives around the world is to safeguard historical documents, but some objects can deteriorate with time. RIT’s Cultural Heritage Imaging (CHI) lab is using funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities to develop a relatively low-cost system that makes cultural heritage imaging methods more accessible.

Tehran Is Ours by HamideH Azimi '24 MFA (film and animation) was honored by CILECT as the recipient of the 2025 SCEDI Award (Standing Committee on Equity, Diversity and Inclusion) for Best Animation. The film, through a combination of 2D, 3D, and experimental animation, challenges the ongoing repression of women’s rights in Iran.

Forward-thinking faculty; curriculum that fuses technology, the arts, and design; and a legacy of priming students with a maker mentality helped RIT’s School of Film and Animation maintain its place on TheWrap’s list of Top 50 Film Schools of 2025.

PetaPixel speaks to Eric Kunsman, assistant professor in the Department of Visual Communications Studies, about the logistics of planning an event like Big Shot.

RIT commemorated the Buffalo Bills’ final season at Highmark Stadium on Oct. 11 with nighttime photos, including a 360-degree panoramic image that will be displayed in the new stadium when it opens next year.

Thousands of students, alumni, their families, and others have already registered to attend at least one of dozens of events Oct. 17-19 during Brick City Homecoming and Family Weekend.