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Welcome to the monthly arts newsletter from the School of Art & Design + Performing Arts Division at Alfred university. This newsletter highlights stories and news from faculty, staff, students and alumnx in addition to recent and upcoming on campus arts events and programs.
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Alfred University’s Cohen Gallery will host Drawing Community Project, a community-based drawing exhibition, and invites anyone who would like to participate to submit an 11” x 14” drawing on the theme of Reconnection.
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The Weekly Wednesday Artists’ Speaker Series at Alfred University resumes on Wednesday, Jan. 19, at 7 p.m. with the first lecture of the Spring 2022 semester being presented by artist, educator, and arts advocate Sharon Louden.
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Artist Paul Catanese will have a solo exhibition in the TSI Harland Snodgrass Gallery in Harder Hall, School of Art & Design at Alfred University. The exhibition will be on view January 17 - 30 , 2022.
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School of Art & Design and Performing Arts Division IDEA Lab is online. IDEA Lab is an overarching umbrella for cultivating a diverse and inclusive environment providing co-teaching and co-learning experiences as part of an Anti-Racist Program at the School of Art and Design and Performing Arts Division at Alfred University.
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After a two year absence, Hot Dog Day is returning this April 30th to celebrate its 50th Anniversary. With that return comes the traditional logo design contest! The logo is used on the T-shirts, posters, and buttons from the event.
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The Fosdick-Neslson Gallery and Robert C. Turner Gallery, both in Harder Hall, and the Cohen Gallery located at 55 N Main Street announce the Spring 2022 exhibition calendar.
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Alfred University’s Cohen Gallery, located on Main Street in the Village of Alfred, will open the exhibition I5olation: A Portfolio of 50 Drawings x 50 Women Sculptors During COVID, on Jan. 21 and extending through Feb. 21.
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QuAC, the Queer Art Collective hosts an exhibition and auction entitled Occupied from February 25 – March 18, 2022, in the Robert C. Turner Gallery. QuAC is seeking submissions from queer artists of the Alfred community. All members of the LGBTQIA+ community and allies are encouraged to submit works. This includes faculty, staff, community members, and alumnx.
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The School of Art & Design + Performing Arts Division present a continuation of the Weekly Wednesday Artist Speaker Series. The events take place every Wednesday at 7 pm in Holmes Auditorium (unless otherwise noted).
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Alfred University will host a lecture by art scholar Jenni Sorkin, Associate Professor of History of Art and Architecture at the University of California, Santa Barbara, at 5pm Jan. 27 on the Zoom platform.
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On Wednesday, January 26 at 7pm in Holmes Auditorium as a part of the Weekly Wednesday Artist Speaker Series, Performance Design & Technology presents Transgressing Boundaries with Deb O. Scenographer, Deb O will share her extensive design work, and explore her varied artistic background and how it all coalesces into a unified practice that defies labels.
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Alfred University’s Miller Theater is hosting the 2019 Prague Quadrennial USA Exhibition, a collection of some of the finest artistic achievement presented in the United States between 2015 and 2019. The exhibit appears in the Miller Theater Scenography Gallery, located on the first floor of the Miller Theater.
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During the Month of February 2022 Alfred University School of Art and Design and Sculpture / Dimensional Studies will host glass artists who hail from the afro diaspora. Each week an Artist working with glass will lead workshops and lecture on their work and experience.
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On Thursday, February 3 at 6pm in Holmes Auditorium, the Music Department presents internationally renowned theatre organist and silent film accompanist, Dennis James will appear in a lecture-concert performance of the silent film "My True Heart Susie" starring Lillian Gish.
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The Division of Art History and Professor James Hansen present a 16mm Film Screening of Michael Snow's La Region Centrale on Friday, January 28 at 6pm in Nevins Theater in the Powell Campus Center.
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Alfred University’s Fosdick-Nelson Gallery, located in Harder Hall, will open the exhibition Signals of Agency, on February 18. The Exhibition is curated by Eric Souther and features artwork by Jason Bernagozzi, Sabrina Ratte, Benjamin Rosenthal and Marcos Serafim.
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Arts at Alfred University’s BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) Artist-in-Residence program provides artists with opportunities to dive deeply into their artistic research and practice, and creative endeavors. The goal of the residency is to provide a cross-cultural destination at Alfred University for early-career BIPOC artists to enhance social/racial justice or combat structures of white supremacy. This will serve artists who have been historically underserved and remove systematic barriers.
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The International Randall Chairs for the Division of Ceramic Art in the Spring Semester 2022 will be Liet Heringa and Maarten Van Kalsbeek, an artist duo from the Netherlands.
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The Arts have big things planned this summer beginning with Arts courses. Whether you are a returning student or if it is your first time at Alfred, the Alfred Summer Arts courses, workshops, festival and camps are an excellent opportunity to find what is possible here.
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Womxn of Alfred, an exhibition on view during the 2022 NCECA Conference, highlights mentorship, intersectional feminism, and empowerment through artworks by female/trans/femme graduate candidates and their faculty, Turner Teaching Fellow, and technicians at the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred. Participants include Linda Sikora, Megan Smythe, Hannah Thompsett, Adero Willard, Javaria Ahmad, Margeaux Claude, Katie Fee, Noah Greene, Jackie Head, Jolie Ngo, Paige O’Toole, Rose Schreiber-Stainthorp, and Victoria Walton.
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The Institute for Electronic Arts (IEA) at Alfred University is the recipient of a $25,000 grant from the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA). The grant is part of $45 million in funding from the Council on the Arts announced Monday, Jan. 3, by New York Governor Kathy Hochul, which will support the recovery of the nonprofit arts and culture sector throughout the state.
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Artwork by Alfred University alumnus Li Hongwei '07 (MFA, ceramic art) will be presented in a solo exhibition entitled "Brilliant Illusions: Crafted Forms by Li Hongwei" from January 18 through June 4, 2022, at the University of Kentucky Art Museum.
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The Division of Ceramic Art will host its annual NCECA reception at the Mill Station Arts and Culture Center, Sacramento, CA on Friday, March 18, 2022 (PT) during the 56th Conference of the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts. The Alfred Reception is complimentary and open to all Alfred alumni and friends. For those who cannot join in person, a Zoom option is available. Registration information coming soon.
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The work of three graduate students in Alfred University’s School of Art and Design has been accepted for the exhibition “COHORTS: alone – together,” hosted by the University of Montana’s MFA Art program.
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Alfred University alumna Sondra Perry ('12) is featured in Season 2.0 of the podcast series, Barbara London Calling, one of 12 conversations with groundbreaking artists working at the forefront of media technology.
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Alfred University’s School of Art and Design recently announced a new partnership with the Chautauqua Visual Arts Residency Program.
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