Save the Date for BU Giving Day 2025
Join us on Wednesday, April 9 to make a difference in the lives of our artist-scholars and scholar-artists.
Save the Date for BU Giving Day 2025
Join us on Wednesday, April 9 to make a difference in the lives of our artist-scholars and scholar-artists.
When you make a gift to Boston University College of Fine Arts (CFA) on Giving Day, you are supporting the arts and our students in numerous ways – incubating the art of tomorrow, inspiring learning, ensuring the arts are open to all, building bridges, and shrinking the world through art.
Show your support by participating in Boston University’s biggest fundraising event of the year! BU Giving Day 2025 on Wednesday, April 9. Now in its 11th year, Giving Day raises funds for hundreds of BU programs, initiatives, and causes over 24 hours.
right here, right now for CFA!
Here at CFA, we’re running a new challenge for Giving Day 2025—and it starts right now.
Thanks to CFA alum and Dean’s Advisory Board member, Jason Alexander (CFA’81, Hon.’95), CFA will get an additional $4,000 for every 50 donors who make a gift—up to the 250-donor goal. That means you have the power to unlock bonus funds for our community of artist-scholars and scholar-artists.
Support students like Niki this Giving Day and help CFA continue to be an inspiring place to learn and create.
One reason I chose BU was the flexibility it offered: I knew that I would have the freedom to pursue a dual degree in graphic design and marketing/advertising. At CFA, I’ve found that flexibility—and more. CFA has a tight-knit community. I’ve had great professors and access to amazing resources in the studio. I feel like I’m getting the skills I need to work in marketing as a graphic designer.
Join us for Pizza with CFA Dean Harvey Young on Giving Day!
Wednesday, April 9 • 2pm • CFA Student Lounge Room 102
The CFA community is invited to enjoy pizza and conversation with CFA Dean Harvey Young and CFA’s Development & Alumni Relations team! Stop by to catch up with friends, meet our Development & Alumni Relations team, and learn why philanthropy matters at Boston University. Pass by the Giving Day table for stickers, sweets, and games (for a chance to win CFA swag!)
About Jason Alexander
Alexander’s signature voice and sharp humor may immediately prompt visions of Seinfeld‘s inimitable George Costanza, but his talent extends far beyond sitcom syndication. Alexander earned a Screen Actors Guild Award for outstanding performance in a comedy series for the role, and has continued to share his talents across many forms of media. The Tony Award-winner’s latest act has brought him to podcasting and directing on Broadway, recently helming The Cottage by Sandy Rustin, co-produced by Nina Tassler (CFA’79, Hon.’16).
“When you’re an actor, you can only make a contribution in one very specific way. But as a director, you get to participate on every possible level,” says Alexander. “What brought me into performing was community. I get to be in a community with many more people as a director than I am as just an actor. And it is not about what most people probably assume—it is not about having control. If I put it in music terms, a great conductor probably can’t play all those instruments, and surely cannot play them as well as the people playing for him. He coordinates all of them as an orchestra so that the whole is greater than any of its individual parts. That challenge, at this point in my life, is really rewarding.”