The Schein-Joseph International Museum of Ceramic Art at Alfred University will exhibit “George Ohr Rising – the Emergence of an American Master,” a traveling exhibition on loan from the Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art, Biloxi, MS, curated by Anna Harris. Click here for more...

Lenka Clayton, a documentary artist and Theodore Randall International Chair in the School of Art & Design, has launched what she calls the “Amnesty for the Lost Artifacts of the Steinheim Museum” project. She's looking for leads on the location of former pieces of the Steinheim collection, not to reclaim them, but to photograph them and record their stories. Click here for more...

Artist-in-Residence Nick Cave will be teaching three different master classes in design, dance and visual art at Alfred University. The classes are open to all students, faculty, and community members. Cave, who is a member of the faculty of the Art Institute of Chicago as well as a dancer, will spend four days in residence on the AU campus, beginning Tuesday, Sept. 30, and then return Oct. 24 for a performance. Click here for more...

Former Alfred University professor, Dr. Linda Jones of Smith College, Northampton, MA, will deliver the annual John F. McMahon Lecture at 11:20 a.m., Thursday, Oct. 16, in Holmes Auditorium, Harder Hall, on the AU campus. Her talk, open to the public, is entitled, “The Practice of Engineering in the 21st Century.” Click here for more...

Sixteen Alfred University students in studio and performing arts will work together, and with nationally acclaimed artist Nick Cave, to produce “Heavyweight,” a collaborative performance artwork involving material, movement and sound. Click here for more...

“Alfred International,” the first-ever Master of Fine Arts exhibition to be held in an international venue, runs through Sept. 28 at the School of Design, China Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) in Beijing, People’s Republic of China. The exhibition opened Monday (Sept. 15), with an opening reception and a gallery talk by some of the 2008 MFA graduates today (Sept. 16). Click here for more...

Joseph S. Lewis III, dean of the School of Art and Design at Alfred University, will have his own artwork featured in two large shows opening this month. Click here for more...

New York-based artist Gregory Sholette will open the 2008-09 Visiting Artists and Speakers Series in the School of Art & Design at Alfred University with a lecture on Thursday, Sept. 4, at 5 p.m. in Holmes Auditorium, Harder Hall. The program is open to the public free of charge. Click here for more...

Alfred University continues to be ranked among the top master’s degree-awarding institutions in the North on U.S. News and World Report’s listing of “Great Schools at Great Prices.” Click here for more...

The School of Art & Design at Alfred University is entering final stages of design on a $10 million addition to Harder Hall, to be known as the McGee Pavilion in honor of the late State Senator Patricia K. McGee. Click here for more...