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- October 17 - December 8, 2024
- Year: 2024-2025
Celebrating 25 interns’ poster designs from 2001–2024 with 30 framed works, a catalogue, and a timeline marking Sharon McConnell’s retirement.
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Open Space: BIPOC Residency Exhibition
- September 2 - October 22, 2022
- Year: 2022-2023
Open Space features the work of four artists Adrian Aguilera, Tatiana Florival, Claire Hu, and Jacoub Reyes who came to Alfred this summer to participate in the first BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, Peop...
View Full GalleryBeyond the Surface
- August 22 - September 29, 2024
- Year: 2024-2025
This exhibition features recent work by Jeanne F. Jalandoni and Sharon Norwood. Their work explores themes of identity, emphasizing all-too-often overlooked American histories and experiences. In t...
View Full GalleryAfter Alfred
- November 5 - December 8, 2021
- Year: 2021-2022
Early memories of playing in the mud, sand. Play-Dog and flour dough connect us to clay. These memories are what shape us as makers and continue to pull us back now to porcelain, terracotta and sto...
View Full GalleryLocal Alumni Invitational
- February 8 - March 15, 2019
- Year: 2018-2019
Alfred is home to many artists and artisans who have put down roots in our magic valley. The Cohen Center Gallery, a historic and intimate setting on Main Street in Alfred, presents an exhibition o...
View Full GalleryRounding The Corner
- April 25 - July 21, 2024
- Year: 2023-2024
Showcasing artwork by first-year graduate students studying in the School of Art and Design who are rounding the corner into their second and final year. The exhibition will feature small works in ...
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- January 18 - March 17, 2024
- Year: 2023-2024
This exhibition features work by seven recently hired tenure-track professors: Rebecca Arday, Paul Briggs, Nicki Green, Stephanie Hanes, Anthony Nguyen in collaboration with Taryn Cassella, Kelsey ...
View Full GalleryAlumni Invitational Pottery Exhibition and Sale
- October 19 - December 3, 2023
- Year: 2023-2024
Five accomplished potters and alumni from the School of Art and Design, Rebecca Chappell (MFA 08), Sanam Emami (MFA 02), Ryan Greenheck (MFA 04), Alleghany Meadows (MFA 99), and Kyla Toomey (BFA 04...
View Full GallerySalt and Steel
- April 7 - August 3, 2018
- Year: 2017-2018
Hope's formalist paintings are constructed with simple, direct color forms. Focusing on color, line, and light allow the artist to create a place for the subject to live. She plays on the geometry ...
View Full GalleryCentral Receiving
- September 1 - October 1, 2023
- Year: 2023-2024
Central Receiving features new paintings by alum artist, Trevor Bennett (MFA 2012). In his exhibition statement Bennett gives insight into his title "I like to pretend that my studio is the embodim...
View Full GalleryFitting In and Standing Out
- April 6 - August 9, 2019
- Year: 2018-2019
Fitting In and Standing Out showcases a comprehensive sampling of Monica Duncan and Lara Odell's work, starting with the collaborative pieces they created while at Alfred (they met in 2000, when Mo...
View Full GalleryDrawing Community
- January 21 - February 21, 2022
- Year: 2021-2022
This community project invites anyone who would like to participate to submit an 11" x 14" drawing to the Cohen Gallery on the theme of Reconnection. The drawings will be in conversation with the ...
View Full GalleryExquisite Corpse: Community Drawing Exhibition
- January 19 - February 16, 2023
- Year: 2022-2023
In this playful and fun filled exhibition member of the community collaborated in the making of Exquisite Corpse drawings. Exquisite Corpse is a game in which a participant makes a drawing on a she...
View Full GalleryIkebana Ziggurat
- November 2 - December 7, 2018
- Year: 2018-2019
Ikebana and Ziggurat are both distinct formalist structures. The work of Ellen Bahr and Kathleen McShane can be located within a conceptual ikebana where space is the prominent compositional elemen...
View Full GalleryThe Bob & Bobble Show
- June 1 - August 5, 2022
- Year: 2021-2022
This whimsical show featuring Yessiree Bob: a photo-graphic collection of Bob signs by Judy Livingston, and bobble head sculptures by Jesse "So Handsome" Plass, is the perfect show to keep your sum...
View Full GalleryFluorescent Dirt
- June 8 - July 22, 2023
- Year: 2022-2023
Fluorescent Dirt featuring the work of AU alumni and current faculty Patrick Brennan, and artist/collaborator Grace Sachi Troxell, will be on display at the Cohen Gallery June 8 - July 22, with a r...
View Full GalleryNeil Before Zod
- September 14 - October 19, 2018
- Year: 2018-2019
Sczerbaniewicz's series of installation works investigates the interplay between the rational and the irrational as illustrated in three interactive spatial vignettes. The conceptual matrix behind ...
View Full GalleryWon't You Be My Neighbor?
- August 22 - October 4, 2019
- Year: 2019-2020
Won't You be my Neighbor? was conceived by Stevenson, who wanted to break down the divide between Alfred University/ Alfred State College and permanent Alfred community members through the making o...
View Full GalleryIdyll Currents
- November 4 - December 4, 2022
- Year: 2022-2023
Abstract artist and AU alum Jonathan Faber will show new paintings and drawings in this solo exhibition. For Faber "painting is a physical thinking process—a way of getting involved in a kind of i...
View Full Gallerywhat's her face.
- February 2 - March 16, 2018
- Year: 2017-2018
Victoria's studio practice stems from her query of autobiography and the investigation of the female narrative within her Hmong-American perspective. Victoria's observations from cultural, bodily, ...
View Full GalleryThe Sweat Life
- February 2 - March 16, 2018
- Year: 2017-2018
Ladia is fascinated by the artificial world created by contemporary society and is interested in the actions we take to make our lives happier through consumption and social pressure. She observes ...
View Full GalleryNuyorican
- March 3 - April 30, 2022
- Year: 2021-2022
During the height of Puerto Rican migration to the United States, mostly during the 1950's and 1960's, a new term came about to describe those of this Diaspora - Nuyorican. Originally meant to be a...
View Full GalleryI5olation
- January 21 - February 21, 2022
- Year: 2021-2022
The exhibition came about during a conversation between sculptors, Coral Lambert and Cynthia Handel when they were checking in on each other in early April 2020. They were discussing how the pandem...
View Full GalleryIn Cahoots With...
- April 7 - August 3, 2018
- Year: 2017-2018
This exhibition highlights the collaborative prints produced in cahoots with and printed by Tim Pauszek. The collection features works by SoAD faculty as well as IEA visiting artists who typically ...
View Full GalleryChange of Address
- September 3 - October 4, 2021
- Year: 2021-2022
An exhibit featuring the work of several artists we recently welcomed into the School of Art & Design as faculty members.
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- March 2 - May 8, 2023
- Year: 2022-2023
Judith Olson Gregory's layered wall hangings, constructed from tea bags and other delicate fibers, embedded text and layered patterns, reference iconic women and ask poignant, philosophical questions.
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