Aurora, New York
Join the Book Arts Center to print winter holiday cards. Choose from several card designs and try your hand at operating our printing presses. Additional cards and prints will be for sale, and student work from the semester will be on display.
Join us at the Book Arts Center, 1st floor, Rm 7 on Thursday, Feb 8, 12 - 2pm to print some letterpress Valentines. We'll have several designs set up on the press to choose from. Free for students and open to the public.
Wells College's chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, America's most prestigious honor society, is proud to have been awarded another visiting scholar this year. Professor Julia Bryan-Wilson is coming from Columbia University to give a public lecture entitled "Stitching Protest": This talk examines how needlework textile techniques such as embroidery and quilting have been used in ... Read more
Come learn from Bekkah Frisch, a Wells alum with a B.A. in English, when she teaches a master class on self-publishing and reads from her debut novel, “The Great Quiet,” which was published in August 2023. Bekkah Frisch spends her days developing her media business, iHeart Oswego, and her nights writing fiction that explores the ... Read more
A swarm is coming! The Beehive Design Collective visits Wells College on Friday, February 16, 2024. Hosted by the Wells Book Arts Center and the Center for Sustainability and the Environment, the Collective will set up a pop-up exhibit in Sommer Hall from 1:30 - 4:30 PM, with a talk and exhibit walk-through at 2:45 ... Read more
/ˈrəp(t)SHər/ Thursday, Feb 29, 4:30-6pm Featuring 13 artists from all over New York and beyond, this exhibition follows the theme of systems building up, overlapping, blending, and breaking down. Our bi-annual Regional Juried Exhibition is juried and curated by the students of VART 315, “Professional Practices in the Visual Arts.” Khaila Batts - Michelle Brandemuehl ... Read more
Katie Ostrander '24 and Alexander Blaine '24 will perform in Stephen Massicote's play "Mary's Wedding," a love story that transcends space and time. This is Katie Ostrander's thesis production. This performance is suitable for audience members over the age of 12. "Mary's Wedding" will premiere Friday, March 1 and Saturday, March 2 at 7:30 p.m. ... Read more
Katie Ostrander '24 and Alexander Blaine '24 will perform in Stephen Massicote's play "Mary's Wedding," a love story that transcends space and time. This is Katie Ostrander's thesis production. This performance is suitable for audience members over the age of 12. "Mary's Wedding" will premiere Friday, March 1 and Saturday, March 2 at 7:30 p.m. ... Read more
Katie Ostrander '24 and Alexander Blaine '24 will perform in Stephen Massicote's play "Mary's Wedding," a love story that transcends space and time. This is Katie Ostrander's thesis production. This performance is suitable for audience members over the age of 12. "Mary's Wedding" will premiere Friday, March 1 and Saturday, March 2 at 7:30 p.m. ... Read more
Join Gale Marie Thompson as she teaches a master class on the ethics of the lyric “I” from 5 to 6 p.m. in the Faculty Parlors of Main Building and gives a public reading from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. in the Art Exhibit Room in Macmillan Hall. Thompson will read from her new book “Mountain ... Read more
Listen to Melissa Faliveno give a master class on memory and the speculative in creative nonfiction from 4 to 5 p.m. in the Faculty Parlors in Main Building and read from her essay collection “Tomboyland" from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. in the Art Exhibit Room of Macmillan Hall. "Tomboyland" was named a Best Book of ... Read more
Attend a master class on experimental forms in small-press publishing and innovative writing with Kyra Simone, a fiction writer and publisher based in Brooklyn, from 5 to 6 p.m. in the Faculty Parlors in Main Building. Then, Kyra will read from her story collection published in 2022 titled “Palace of Rubble” from 7 to 8 p.m. ... Read more
