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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Makers on Main accepting submission for June 11 exhibition Calling all Makers! Makers on Main is accepting submissions for its June 11 arts and crafts exhibit on Main Street the Village of Alfred.

Alfred Summer Arts, a month-long celebration, hosted by Alfred University Alfred University will host a month-long celebration of art this summer, combining a showcase festival with the educational components of art workshops, institutes, and credit-bearing coursework, along with a residency program for BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) artists.

BIPOC summer resident artists announced Alfred University’s School of Art and Design and Performing Arts Division has announced its first annual BIPOC Summer Resident artists. Artists Tatiana Florival, Clare Hu, Adrian Aguilera and Jacoub Reyes will serve as visiting resident artists in SOAD, with each residency lasting between two weeks and four weeks.

Sculpture Space Gallery to host exhibit by MFA grads Alfred University’s Master of Fine Arts Class of 2022 will exhibit in a group show from May 27 to June 23 at the Sculpture Space New York City Gallery, located at 47-21 35th St., Long Island City, NY.

"Sensing Nature" exhibition in Scholes Library builds on Art History Professor Hope Childers’ class Landscape across Cultures Building on a semester of research and collaborative work, students in Professor of Art History Hope Childers’ "Landscape Across Cultures" class have put together an exhibition called “Sensing Nature,” which opened last week in the Scholes Library Project Space and features a wide variety of media, including paintings, prints, sculpture, photography. The show runs until Monday, May 30.

Nearly 70 exhibitions comprise Alfred University School of Art and Design 2022 Senior Show Alfred University’s School of Art and Design held its annual Senior Show on Saturday, May 7, with 69 senior Bachelor of Fine Arts students presenting their capstone art projects.

Bronze statues, Alfred University’s new Alumni Council Awards, cast today at foundry Six bronze statues, cast this morning in Alfred University’s National Casting Center, will be awarded to six Alfred University alumni next month during the University’s 2022 Alumni Reunion.

Call for Submissions : SUNY Pride Exhibitions Announcing a new call for submissions for the 2022-2023 SUNY Pride virtual exhibition. Encouraging submissions from students, faculty, staff and alumni. The call is open to receiving creative writing, drama, dance, music, and visual art (including film) submissions.

Exhibition featuring Alfred University faculty, alumni featured at Smithsonian Museum’s Renwick Gallery Artwork by professor of ceramic art Linda Sikora and three alumni of Alfred University’s School of Art and Design is featured in an exhibition which opened Friday, May 13, at the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Renwick Gallery in Washington, DC.

Exhibition of work by Judy Livingston, Jesse Plass: ‘Bob and Bobble Show’ opens June 1 at Cohen Gallery An exhibition featuring artwork by the Alfred University School of Art and Design’s Judy Livingston, associate professor of graphic design, and Jesse Plass, gallery preparator, will be shown over the summer in the Cohen Gallery, Main Street, Alfred.

MFA student Jolie Ngo's work appearing in New York City's R & Company gallery “Memory Palace,” a solo exhibition by Alfred University MFA student Jolie Ngo, opened recently at the New York City gallery R & Company. It is Ngo’s first solo show.

Isabel Monti, MFA '22 awarded Best in Show at SUNY A painting by Alfred University M.F.A. graduate student Isabel Monti '22, titled "Self Portrait," was awarded Best in Show in the SUNY Exhibitions Series at SUNY Plaza in Albany.

Exhibition by three ceramic artists, two with connections to Alfred University, shown at Concord, MA, gallery Works by a trio of ceramic artists, two with connections to Alfred University, are being shown in an exhibition which opened May 7 at the Lucy LaCoste Gallery in Concord, MA.

SOAD graduate student wins residency at Fine Arts Work Center Siennie Lee, a current graduate student in the Alfred/Düsseldorf Painting program of Alfred University’s School of Art and Design, has been selected for the prestigious and highly competitive artist residency program at the Fine Arts Work Center, in Provincetown, MA.

Alfred University/ Düsseldorf MFA painting students to present virtual exhibitions A live virtual tour of thesis exhibitions for degree candidates in the Alfred University/ Düsseldorf, Germany MFA program in painting will be held Saturday, May 7, at 10 a.m.

Coral Penelope Lambert sculpture to be featured on ISC 60th Anniversary Medal A sculpture created by Coral Penelope Lambert, Alfred University professor of sculpture, will be featured on a medal commemorating the 60th Anniversary of the International Sculpture Center (ISC).

IEA receives major grant from New York State Council on the Arts Alfred University’s Institute for Electronic Arts (IEA) recently received a $15,750 Immersive Art and Technology Initiative Grant from the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA), IEA Director Joseph Scheer, Professor of Printmaking in the School of Art and Design, announced this week.

Randall Chairs to exhibit work at Terra Cotta May 3 The Celedon Terra Cotta building on Main Street in Alfred will be the site of a one-day exhibition of ceramic work by Randall Chairs Liet Heringa and Maarten Van Kalsbeek on Tuesday, May 3, from 3 to 6 pm.

Alicia Eggert, Sculpture/Dimensional Studies MFA Featured on PBS Alicia Eggert (MFA'09) featured on the PBS News Weekend Edition feature, How Houston has transformed its airports into hubs for art.

2005 MFA grad Bang Geual Han mounts solo exhibit in Bronx Museum Bang Geual Han, who earned her MFA from Alfred University in 2005, is exhibiting her work in the Bronx Museum, 1040 Grand Concourse, Bronx. The title of the exhibit: “If You Grind the Threshold of Three Other Houses.”