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Applications to participate in the Center for Diversity Innovation’s Distinguished Visiting Scholars program are sought from exceptionally accomplished faculty who, through their record of scholarship and/or creative endeavors, teaching, mentoring, and service, as well as their skills, experiences, underrepresentation, and areas of scholarly and/or creative expertise, can substantially advance diversity, equity, and inclusion at the University of Buffalo.

Each semester, the Arts Collaboratory’s Working Artists Lab hosts a Visiting Professor in the Arts. This semester, we welcomed musician, performer and activist Michael Mwenso, leader of the internationally acclaimed Mwenso & the Shakes. Mwenso’s course Protest, Hope and Resilience Through the Black Arts led students on a fascinating journey through the history of African and African American art—and revealed the ways in which Black artists have always propelled cultural and political change.

Undergraduate Alexis Miller recently provided photographs of her academic experiences in England as part of associate professor Maria Horne's popular THD Study Abroad Programs in Ireland and the United Kingdom.

THD’s traditional fall 2020 musical will be a newly conceived virtual musical revue titled “SAFER,” and includes new songs and poetic work by an exciting line-up of professional music theatre composers and lyricists. Available ONLINE on October 23rd, 2020 at 7:30 PM. Details TBA.