Lenka Clayton, an artist/documentary maker, has joined Alfred University’s School of Art & Design as the Randall International Chair for the 2008-09 academic year. Click here for more...

“Alter-Skins,” an exhibition featuring intricately bejeweled costumes by Nick Cave, opens at the Fosdick-Nelson Gallery at Alfred University on Friday, Sept. 12 and runs through Sunday, Oct. 30, 2008. There will be an artist talk on Tuesday, Sept. 30, at 5 p.m. in Holmes Auditorium followed by a reception from 7-9 p.m. Click here for more...

Alfred University and Alfred State College students arriving by bus for the start of the fall semester in a couple of weeks will be welcomed at the Alfred Plaza, a new bus shelter completed by students at the two schools that share this small Southern Tier village. Click here for more...

Five students from the Sichuan Province of China, an area badly damaged in a massive earthquake in May, will arrive at Alfred in mid-August to spend the next academic year at the Kazuo Inamori School of Engineering at Alfred University. Click here for more...

Coral Lambert, assistant professor of sculpture/dimensional studies at Alfred University, was the director of the ninth USUK (United States United Kingdom) International Iron Symposium in June 2008. It took place at Butley Mills Studios, on the east coast of England in Suffolk, near Orford Castle, about one hour from London. Click here for more...

Edward Reinfurt, Executive Director of the New York State Foundation for Science, Technology and Innovation (NYSTAR), today announced that the Alfred University’s Center for Advanced Ceramic Technology (CACT) and Clarkson University’s Center for Advanced Materials Processing (CAMP) have been re-designated by the New York State Foundation for Science, Technology and Innovation (NYSTAR) as Centers for Advanced Technology (CATs). These re-designations will provide each center with approximately $10 million over a ten year designation period. Click here for more...

Alfred University Associate Professor of Sculpture, Brett Hunter’s sculpture “Anchors and Gears” is the latest addition to the “In Sight/On Site” sculpture program at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Fredonia. Click here for more...

An Alfred University graduate from the class of 2005 has been selected as a 2008 Bush Foundation Artist Fellow. Nathaniel Freeman was one of 15 artists introduced earlier this summer at Open Book, Minneapolis, MN. Click here for more...

Michelle M. Lockwood, associate professor of expanded media at Alfred University, was invited to Shandong University of Art and Design to hold a two-week workshop at the University’s Visual Communication Design Institute. Click here for more...

The Kenan Center Gallery in Lockport, NY, has selected 29 artists from Western New York to participate in the Niagara Frontier Art Exhibit, July 13-Aug. 24, 2008. Among the juried artists is 21-year-old Allison Wilton of North Tonawanda, a 2008 graduate of Alfred University’s School of Art and Design. Click here for more...