Fifty artists, including four with Alfred University connections will participate in “Beyond/In Western New York,” a biennial exhibit which opens in September featuring top artists from a bi-national region including Toronto, Buffalo, and Syracuse. Click here for more...

Nicole Tates, a junior in the School of Art & Design at Alfred University, is one of 18 New York State residents to receive a Coca-Cola First Generation Scholarship this year. Click here for more...

Two Alfred University seniors are recipients of the 2007 State University of New York (SUNY) Chancellor’s Award for Student Excellence. Click here for more...

The first-ever “Motor City Blow-Off” event to celebrate Michigan Glass Month will be held at the Glass Academy in Dearborn from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday, April 28, 2007. The public is invited to attend the demonstrations to be held at the Glass Academy’s 14,000-square-foot facility at 25331 Trowbridge in Dearborn. Click here for more...

Phillippe Barde of Switzerland, whose work “Human Bowl Faces” received the grand prize in the 3rd World Ceramic Biennale, held in Korea in 2005, has been named the first holder of the Theodore Randall International Chair in Art in the School of Art & Design at Alfred University. Click here for more...

Dr. William C. LaCourse, professor of Glass Science in the School of Engineering, as well as associate provost for Statutory Affairs for Alfred University, will receive the George W. Morey Award from the Glass and Optical Materials Division of the American Ceramic Society during its May 20-23 meeting in Rochester, NY. Click here for more...

Stephen D. Edwards, professor of glass art in the School of Art & Design at Alfred University, will be a visiting scholar at Osaka University for the Arts for three months, beginning in May. Click here for more...

Dr. Ezra Shales, assistant professor of art history and theory at Alfred University, received a $10,000 grant from The Craft Research Fund to support research on John Cotton Dana’s (1856–1929) pioneering exhibitions in terms of craft, differing from the previous characterizations of made by The Newark Museum as fostering a “machine esthetic.” Click here for more...

Alfred University’s Schein-Joseph International Museum of Ceramics will once again host the Master of Fine Arts Graduate Thesis Exhibitions. From April 21 through May 7, three candidates for ceramics and electronic arts degrees from the School of Art & Design, New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University will display the culmination of their two years of work. Click here for more...

Alfred University’s Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.) in ceramic art is again the top-rated program in the nation, according to US News and World Report’s “America’s Best Graduate Schools,” which went on sale this week. Click here for more...