Smiles, selfies and ice cream fill Graduation Weekend 2017

Graduating art majors from the College of Architecture, Art and Planning gather in front of Tjaden Hall as the Class of 2017 assembled on the Arts Quad Sunday morning of Commencement Weekend. Cornell's newest graduates, along with their families and friends, wore smiles, grins and pride throughout Cornell's 149th Graduation Weekend. They now share a collective memory of 6,000 deft men and women striding into the future. Among the new alumni, Danica Davis '17, who received her bachelor's degree in architecture, aims to create the feeling of home in her residential work, while classmate Christine Ansalone '17 wants to build a little bit of everything. Artists Chan Seth '17, Veronica Constable '17 and Yuxi Xiao '17 were ecstatic to line up for the procession. Seth, who specializes in portraiture and the abstract, plans to attend music festivals, spend time in the mountains, then backpack in India this summer. Constable , who was born in Russia and grew up in Philadelphia, creates life-size color-pencil portraits of her sisters.