While courses within the Department of Art and Art History were conducted remotely throughout the Fall 2020 semester, faculty and students took advantage of public art spaces and exhibits around New York City as creative influences for their projects.

As MMC worked to reopen its Main Campus for the Fall 2020 semester, the Department of Natural Sciences developed a plan to continue performing in-person laboratory courses while also accommodating remote learners. MMC’s science labs underwent extensive safety reinforcement to allow in-person students to participate in labs with their remote partners learning from home.

Please join us online December 7—11 for the College’s arts and social justice festival, Stand Up Speak Out, to raise awareness and support for the Bedford Hills College Program and Bedford Hills College Club.

On October 30, 2020, Marymount Manhattan presented Everybody—one of the College’s first entirely virtual theatre productions (the very first of which being Playwriting Projects and DPs from the Spring 2020 semester). A collaboration between students, faculty, and staff, Everybody displayed pioneering efforts by the Department of Theatre Arts, exemplifying the versatility of MMC’s Virtual Class/Open Campus model.

On November 4, award-winning filmmaker Yoruba Richen joined Assistant Professor of Communication and Media Arts, Dan Hunt, MFA, to direct a virtual storytelling workshop for students in the COMM 112: Storytelling Across Media course.