Fall Semester Arts Season Calendar

The School of Art & Design and Performing Arts Division announce Fall semester arts events including Weekly Wednesday Speaker Series, Alfred Art Walk, Exhibitions and Performing Arts Events.

Weekly Wednesday Artist Speaker Series 7 pm, Holmes Auditorium 9/7 - 12/7 

Monthly Alfred Art Walk:Third Thursday of every month, 5-8 pm

SEPTEMBER

2  Receptions 6-8 pm, Turner Gallery & Cohen Gallery 

• Turner Gallery Closing Reception Start Your Engines Exhibition
• Cohen Gallery Open Space: BIPOC Residency Exhibition 2022 // Adrian Aguilera, Tatiana Florival, Clare Hu, Jacoub Reyes on view through 10/3

8 Dennis James plays Glass Armonica with AU Music Students 7:30 pm, Miller Theatre

9 Receptions 6-8 pm, Turner Gallery & Fosdick-Nelson Gallery 

• Fosdisck-Nelson Gallery Frequency/Chronology by Luftwerk // Petra Bachmaier and Sean Gallero on view through 10/9
• Turner Gallery Summer Interns (Main Space) //“Invasive” (Catwalk) on view through 9/16

13 IDEA Lab Workshop 11 am

15 Bergren Forum “Scene Shift / Redefining Artistic Pathways” Maureen Weiss & Sibyl Wickersheimer 12:10 pm

15 Book Launch Reception “Scene Shift U.S. Set Design in Conversation” Maureen Weiss 6 pm, Scenography Gallery

23 Reception 6-8 pm, Turner Gallery “Hold My Body, Hold My Breath” (Main Space) on view through 9/30

30 IDEA Lab Book Club 11am

30 Guitarist Neil Jacobs 7:30 pm, Miller Theatre

OCTOBER

4 IDEA Lab Workshop 11 am

7 Reception 6-8 pm, Turner Gallery “Come Out...Come Out...Wherever You Are!” QuAC OPEN CALL on view through 10/14

10-14 Sharon Kagan / Visiting Artist “Release Me” Performance 10 am–3 pm, Scenography Gallery, Miller Performing Arts Center on view 10/10-12/9 “The Undoing:Forgiveness” and “The Red Lotus – To Witness, To Release”

13 Phantom of the Opera Silent Film with Organist Dennis James 7:30 pm, Holmes Auditorium, Harder Hall

14 IDEA Lab Book Club 11 am

14 Reception: Sharon Kagan / Visiting Artist 3 pm, Scenography Gallery, Miller Performing Arts Center

20 Alfred Art Walk 5-8pm // IDEA Lab Artist Talk // Open Screening, Holmes Auditorium // Reception 6-8 pm, Fosdick-Nelson Gallery Reception 6-8pm, Turner Gallery

10/20-12/1 Fosdick-Nelson Gallery Division of Ceramic Art at Alfred 

21 Reception 6-8 pm, Turner Gallery  on view through 10/28

22 Fiat Festifall Reception 4:30 pm, IDEA Lab

23 Sculpture Unveiling Binns-Merill Hall Academic Alley, 6 pm

24 Reception 4:30 pm, IDEA Lab Monument and Mythology: Wes Brown and Peter Jadoonath, Reception October 24, 4:30 pm exhibition 10/11-24

NOVEMBER

4 Reception 6-8 pm, Cohen Gallery Jonathan Faber On view through 12/4

4-6 Light Matter Film Festival 5-10pm Friday and Saturday, 4-6 pm Sunday, Holmes Auditorium 

8 IDEA Lab Workshop 11 am

10-12 AU Theatre Presents Shakespeare’s Merry Wives of Windsor 7:30 pm, Village Hall, West University St, Alfred, NY

18 IDEA Lab Book Club 11am

18 AU Symphony Orchestra Concert 7:30 pm, Miller Theatre; Showing with Curtis Stewart, 2022 GRAMMY Performer and Nominee – 3 day Residency and Violin Soloist with AU Orchestra University

19 Concert Band Recital 7:30 pm, Miller Theatre

20 AU Music Student Recital 3 pm, Susan Howell

DECEMBER

1-2 AU Informal Dance Showing 6pm, C.D. Smith, III Theatre

3  Popular Music Ensemble Concert 7:30 pm, Miller Theatre

4 AU Music Student Recital 3 pm, Miller Theatre

9 AU Music Choral Concert ft. AU Chorus & the Encore Choir 7:30 pm, Miller Theatre

10 Senior Shows 4-8 pm, Turner Gallery

Alfred Ceramic Art Museum William Underhill: Casting a Legacy, on view throughout the fall semester