RE_MOVE: Kasia Ozga & Dan Rosenberg

String Room Gallery 170 Main St., Aurora, NY, United States

January 24 - February 23, 2023 Reception: January 24, 4:30-6:30pm with a walkthrough by the artists at 5pm RE_MOVE is a transatlantic dialogue in image and text from 2019-2020 between visual artist Kasia Ozga and poet Dan Rosenberg. Located in France, Ozga produced images using the batik process with materials reclaimed from multiple former and ... Read more

That Day, We Looked Happy: Rowan Renee

String Room Gallery 170 Main St., Aurora, NY, United States

February 23 - March 25, 2023 That Day, We Looked Happy is a series of kiln-formed glass "album pages" created from the collection of personal photos and documents the artist inherited after their father's death in prison. Through the artist's recomposition of these images, which span their father's three marriages from the 1940s to the 2000s, ... Read more

Wells in Review: Annual Student Exhibition 2023

String Room Gallery 170 Main St., Aurora, NY, United States

Wells College Visual Arts Faculty organize this annual exhibition, selecting representative pieces from introductory to advanced courses in a range of disciplines. This year’s exhibition includes handmade books, photography, ceramics, video, sculpture, mixed-media work, and creative writing. Featured Student Artists: Sarai White; Moeko Mizukami; Mandy Chen; Nia Etienne; Paige Taylor Wilson; Sol Rios; Maria Mironova; ... Read more

Senior Thesis Exhibition 2023: Construction Paper

String Room Gallery 170 Main St., Aurora, NY, United States

The Visual Arts program of Wells College is proud to announce the opening of Construction Paper: a group exhibition of thesis work developed and crafted by our 2023 Studio Art majors - Sasha Brady, Fiona Chavez, and Luna.

Daniela Naomi Molnar, Reading & Talk

String Room Gallery 170 Main St., Aurora, NY, United States

Join the Visiting Writers Series and the String Room Gallery for a special visit with poet and artist Daniela Naomi Molnar.

Visiting Artist: Daniela Molnar

Wells College 170 Main Street, Aurora, NY, United States

Thursday, Sept 21, 5pm – Join the Visiting Writers Series and the String Room Gallery for a special visit with poet and artist Daniela Naomi Molnar! Daniela will read from her award-winning book, CHORUS, as well as other recent projects, and discuss the ecopoetic reverberations between her poetry and visual artwork, currently on display in the gallery. There ... Read more

Visiting Writers Series: Emma Törzs

Faculty Parlors, Main Building

Emma Törzs is a writer, teacher, and occasional translator based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Her fiction has been honored with an NEA fellowship in prose, a World Fantasy Award for Short Fiction, and an O. Henry Prize. Her stories have been published in journals such as Ploughshares, Uncanny Magazine, Strange Horizons, and American Short Fiction. She received her MFA from ... Read more

Visiting Writers Series: Rachel Yoder

Faculty Parlors, Main Building

Rachel Yoder is the author of "Nightbitch," her debut novel released in 2021. The book has been adapted for film by Marielle Heller and stars Amy Adams. Selected as an Indie Next Pick in August 2021, "Nightbitch" has gone on to be named a best book of the year by Esquire and Vulture and recognized ... Read more

Closing Reception: Cake Party with Visiting Artist Patrick Costello!

String Room Gallery 170 Main St., Aurora, NY, United States

Celebrate the closing of Landing with a grand cake celebration by artists Patrick Costello and Ben Simon! Patrick Costello's work in the exhibition, Piping, is a nod to a monumental composting structure called AND EAT IT TOO that is currently on view at Stone Quarry Hill Art Park in Cazenovia NY.  Made of plants, hay, wood chips, and elephant dung, ... Read more

Visiting Writers Series: Valzhyna Mort

Art Exhibit Room 170 Main Street, Aurora, NY, United States

Valzhyna Mort is a poet and translator born in Minsk, Belarus. She is the author of three poetry collections, mostly recently "Music for the Dead and Resurrected", named one of the best poetry book of 2020 by The New York Times and The NPR, and the winner of the 2020 International Griffin Poetry Prize and ... Read more

Papermaking Open House

Campbell Building, Middle Classroom

Join the Fall Paper Formation + Form class for a hands-on, drop-in papermaking activity. We'll teach you how to make a sheet of paper. You can then choose from a variety of Wells and winter-themed stencils to decorate your paper with pigmented pulp. Dried papers will be available to pick up the following week.