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SUMMARY:Beehive Design Collective Pop-Up and Talk
DESCRIPTION: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 PM. \nThe Beehive is an all-volunteer swarm of educators\, artists\, and activists using images to communicate and educate about the complex realities of our times. The dizzyingly detailed\, hand-drawn\, large-format posters and banners they tour with are portable murals that come alive through storytelling\, illuminating how single issues are interconnected and part of bigger systems. Join in as the Bees deconstruct often overwhelming global issues in an engaging and interactive presentation\, using metaphors from the natural world to connect social and environmental struggles. They will be sharing their projects Mesoamérica Resiste\, the final installment in a trilogy of graphics about corporate globalization and militarization in the Americas\, and The True Cost of Coal\, an elaborative narrative illustration that explores the complex story of mountaintop removal coal mining and the broader impacts of coal. \nThe event is free and open to the public. Posters and patches of graphics will be available for purchase by sliding scale donation. For more information about the group\, visit www.beehivecollective.org.
URL:https://arts.wells.edu/event/beehive-design-collective-pop-up-and-talk/
LOCATION:Sommer Center\, 170 Main Street\, Aurora\, NY\, 13026\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts
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SUMMARY:Visiting Writers Series: Bekkah Frisch
DESCRIPTION: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 power of bravery\, authenticity\, and radical empathy. Outside of writing\, Bekkah enjoys swimming\, traveling\, and memes. She lives in Fulton\, New York\, with her family.
URL:https://arts.wells.edu/event/visiting-writers-series-bekkah-frisch/
LOCATION:Art Exhibit Room\, 170 Main Street\, Aurora\, NY\, 13026\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts
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SUMMARY:Stitching Protest: a Lecture by Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Julia Bryan-Wilson
DESCRIPTION: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”: \nThis talk examines how needlework textile techniques such as embroidery and quilting have been used in the last several decades as a form of protest\, both by those who consider themselves artists as well as by anonymous makers. Focusing primarily on mother-taught women of color since the 1970s\, it discusses how the stitch can be a tool for puncturing conventional narratives and for mending new art histories. \nThe PBK lectures are always fascinating events where exceptional scholars share their work. Come learn something new from the brilliant Dr. Bryan-Wilson!
URL:https://arts.wells.edu/event/stitching-protest-a-lecture-by-phi-beta-kappa-visiting-scholar-julia-bryan-wilson/
LOCATION:Stratton Hall Room 209\, Wells College\, 170 Main Street\, Aurora\, United States
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SUMMARY:Valentine Printing
DESCRIPTION: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.
URL:https://arts.wells.edu/event/valentine-printing/
LOCATION:Wells College\, 170 Main Street\, Aurora\, NY\, 13026\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts
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SUMMARY:Winter Holiday Card Printing
DESCRIPTION:Join the Book Arts Center to print winter holiday cards. Choose from several card designs and try your hand at operating our printing presses. \nAdditional cards and prints will be for sale\, and student work from the semester will be on display.
URL:https://arts.wells.edu/event/winter-holiday-card-printing/
LOCATION:Wells College\, 170 Main Street\, Aurora\, NY\, 13026\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts
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SUMMARY:Papermaking Open House
DESCRIPTION: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. \nDried papers will be available to pick up the following week.
URL:https://arts.wells.edu/event/papermaking-open-house/
LOCATION:Campbell Building\, Middle Classroom
CATEGORIES:Arts
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SUMMARY:Miranda Javid: Do You Know You're A Person?
DESCRIPTION:The String Room Gallery is proud to present: \nDo You Know You’re A Person? \nA solo exhibition by Miranda Javid \nOpening Reception: Thursday\, Nov 9\, 4:30-6:30pm with a walk-through by the artist at 5pm. \nIn the String Room Gallery\, Javid will exhibit a collection of drawings\, a new work produced at Wells\, and premiere an animated short film. The film\, titled What Humans Do\, is entirely hand drawn\, created with ink on tracing paper. The piece seeks to examine human-beings in macro—with the goal of understanding what homosapiens share\, rather than in what ways they are fractured. The loose narrative of the film describes an androgynous character’s contemporary existence. In following how the character’s interact with their environment\, the film seeks to examine the extractive as well as restorative aspects of human nature. The accompanying drawings will be a series of abstract works\, collections of repeated hand-drawn shapes that reference Paleolithic marks found in caves around the world. These pieces juxtapose with the narrative of the film\, serving as a reminder of human-need to trace their existence by saying ‘I was here.’  \nMiranda Javid (she/her) is an animator\, curator\, and art-educator with a Masters in Fine Art from the University of California Irvine and a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art. Her animations describe topics like cognitive experience\, human bias\, and the relationship between individuals and their communities. These films have shown nationally and internationally at festivals like the Ann Arbor Film Festival\, Eyeworks Film Festival\, Slamdance\, the Flaherty Seminar\, and Malt Adult. She is a Kenan Fellow\, a Denniston Hill resident\, a Sherman Fairchild grantee\, and a recipient of the Nancy Harrigan Prize\, given through the Baker Artist Fund. Her drawings have been shown at Commune1 in Cape Town\, S Africa\, The Baltimore Museum of Art\, The Mint Museum of Art in North Carolina\, and Vox Populi in Philadelphia\, PA. Currently\, she lives in unceded Munsee territory also known as the Hudson Valley in New York State. \nDo You Know You’re A Person? is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature\, the Wells College In-Residence Program\, and Visual Arts.
URL:https://arts.wells.edu/event/miranda-javid-do-you-know-youre-a-person/
LOCATION:Wells College\, 170 Main Street\, Aurora\, NY\, 13026\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts
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SUMMARY:Visiting Writers Series: Valzhyna Mort
DESCRIPTION: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 the 2022 UNT Rilke Prize. Mort is a recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation\, the American Academy in Rome\, the Lannan Foundation\, and the Amy Clampitt Foundation. Her work has been honored with the Bess Hokin Prize from Poetry\, the Glenna Luschei Prairie Schooner Award\, and was shortlisted for the Forward Prize. Her international honors include the Burda Prize for Eastern European authors (Germany)\, Crystal of Vilenica Prize (Slovenia)\, and fellowships from Sylt Foundation\, Literary Colloquium Berlin\, Gaude Polonia Scholarship in Warsaw\, Literarisches Haus Graz Fellowship in Austria\, and Alice Yard Artist Residency in Port of Spain\, Trinidad. Mort teaches at Cornell University and writes in English and Belarusian. She translates between English\, Belarusian\, Russian\, Ukrainian\, and Polish. She has received the Gulf Coast Prize in Translation and the National Endowment for the Arts grant in translation for her work on Polina Barskova’s book of selected poems “Air Raid.” Her translation\, together with Hanif Abdurraqib\, of “Motherfield: Poetry and Belarusian Protest Diary” by Julia Cimafiejeva\, came out in 2022 from Deep Vellum Press and was longlisted for the PEN Translation Prize. \nMort will be reading her poetry in the Art Exhibit Room. This event is free and open to the public.
URL:https://arts.wells.edu/event/visiting-writers-series-valzhyna-mort/
LOCATION:Art Exhibit Room\, 170 Main Street\, Aurora\, NY\, 13026\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts
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SUMMARY:Closing Reception: Cake Party with Visiting Artist Patrick Costello!
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate the closing of Landing with a grand cake celebration by artists Patrick Costello and Ben Simon!\n\n\nPatrick 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\, both sculptures find joy in our being part of the ecosystem\, explore the many relationships we have to land\, and invite the notion that we are creatures of joy\, pleasure\, and decay.  In that spirit\, let’s have that cake — which is baked by Ben Simon\, whose comestible artworks celebrate local ingredients\, collectivity\, and the joy of sharing a special meal!  All are welcome! \n\nThursday\, October 26\, 4:30-6:00pm. \n\n\n\n\nPatrick Costello is an artist and performer who works across creative disciplines and genres\, contending with themes of history\, ecology\, horticulture\, collaboration\, and queer joy. Informed by the process of composting\, Patrick’s work experiments with temporary world-building as a way of accessing the potential for collective transformation and utopian possibility.  Patrick completed an MFA in Combined Media at Hunter College in 2018 and earned a BA in Printmaking from the University of Virginia in 2008. \n\nLanding was made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
URL:https://arts.wells.edu/event/closing-reception-cake-party-with-visiting-artist-patrick-costello/
LOCATION:String Room Gallery\, 170 Main St.\, Aurora\, NY\, 13026\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts
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SUMMARY:Visiting Writers Series: Rachel Yoder
DESCRIPTION: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 as a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Fiction\, finalist for the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award\, and shortlist for the McKitterick Prize. To date\, “Nightbitch” has been translated into 13 languages. Rachel is a graduate of the Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program and also holds an MFA in fiction from the University of Arizona. With Mark Polanzak\, she is a founding editor of draft: the journal of process. Rachel grew up in a Mennonite community in the Appalachian foothills of eastern Ohio and now lives in Iowa City. \nYoder will be hosting a master class on “The Writing Life: Process & Inspiration” in the Faculty Parlors at 5 p.m. and then a fiction reading in the Art Exhibit Room at 7 p.m. These events are free and open to the public.
URL:https://arts.wells.edu/event/visiting-writers-series-rachel-yoder/
LOCATION:Faculty Parlors\, Main Building
CATEGORIES:Arts
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SUMMARY:Visiting Writers Series: Emma Törzs
DESCRIPTION: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 the University of Montana\, Missoula\, and is an enthusiastic member of the Clarion West class of 2017. Her debut novel\, “Ink Blood Sister Scribe\,” was a Good Morning America Book Club Pick that the New York Times called “so assured and sophisticated that it’s difficult to imagine where the author can go from here … It’s simply a delight from start to finish.” \nTörzs will be hosting a master class on “Crossing Genres: Where Literary and Speculative Fiction Meet” in the Faculty Parlors at 5 p.m. and then a fiction reading in the Art Exhibit Room at 7 p.m. These events are free and open to the public.
URL:https://arts.wells.edu/event/visiting-writers-series-emma-torzs/
LOCATION:Faculty Parlors\, Main Building
CATEGORIES:Arts
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SUMMARY:Visiting Artist: Daniela Molnar
DESCRIPTION: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 will be a Q&A moderated by Wells studio art and poetry faculty\, with light refreshments.  Location: String Room Gallery \nDaniela’s artist’s talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYtfX86LViY \nDaniela’s reading: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwpcAawGq3Y \nSaturday\, Sept 23\, 10-1pm – Wild Pigment Workshop with Daniela!  –  This workshop will introduce you to the vibrant world of natural pigments in your bioregion. You’ll learn how to ethically forage pigments and transform them into any type of paint or ink. You’ll also learn about pigments as a way to creatively engage with socioecological issues. Pigments allow us to directly interact with forms of time our daily lives usually obscure — geologic time\, photosynthetic time\, and what is often called “deep time.” In opening up different timescales\, pigments offer a balm for the confusion and challenging emotions ecological crises can provoke. Pigment work is a way to interact with the memory of a place and to respond with transformative forms of care that bring intergenerational and ecological healing. This workshop is sponsored by the Center for Sustainability\, and is appropriate for all skill levels. No experience of any kind is necessary.  Location: Zabriskie 302. \nDaniela Naomi Molnar is an artist\, poet\, and writer collaborating with the mediums of language\, image\, paint\, pigment\, and place. She is also a wilderness guide\, educator\, and eternal student. Her work is the subject of a front-page feature in the Los Angeles Times\, an Oregon Art Beat profile\, an entry in the Oregon Encyclopedia\, and a feature in Poetry Daily. Her book CHORUS was selected by Kazim Ali as the winner of Omnidawn Press’ 1st /2nd Book Award. Her next book\, a blend of poetry\, essay\, and visual art and will be out in 2025 from Bored Wolves Press. Her visual work has been shown nationally\, is in public and private collections internationally\, and has been recognized by numerous grants\, fellowships\, and residencies. She founded the Art + Ecology program at the Pacific Northwest College of Art and helped found the backcountry artist residency Signal Fire. She is a 3G Jew\, daughter of immigrants\, and a student of the earth. She can be found in Portland\, Oregon\, and exploring global public wildlands. \nDaniela’s visit was made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
URL:https://arts.wells.edu/event/visiting-artist-daniela-molnar/
LOCATION:Wells College\, 170 Main Street\, Aurora\, NY\, 13026\, United States
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SUMMARY:Daniela Naomi Molnar\, Reading & Talk
DESCRIPTION: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 will be a Q&A moderated by Wells studio art and poetry faculty\, with light refreshments.  Location: String Room Gallery \nDaniela’s artist’s talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYtfX86LViY \nDaniela’s reading: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwpcAawGq3Y \nSaturday\, Sept 23\, 10-1pm – Wild Pigment Workshop with Daniela!  –  This workshop will introduce you to the vibrant world of natural pigments in your bioregion. You’ll learn how to ethically forage pigments and transform them into any type of paint or ink. You’ll also learn about pigments as a way to creatively engage with socioecological issues. Pigments allow us to directly interact with forms of time our daily lives usually obscure — geologic time\, photosynthetic time\, and what is often called “deep time.” In opening up different timescales\, pigments offer a balm for the confusion and challenging emotions ecological crises can provoke. Pigment work is a way to interact with the memory of a place and to respond with transformative forms of care that bring intergenerational and ecological healing. This workshop is sponsored by the Center for Sustainability\, and is appropriate for all skill levels. No experience of any kind is necessary.  Location: Zabriskie 302. \nDaniela Naomi Molnar is an artist\, poet\, and writer collaborating with the mediums of language\, image\, paint\, pigment\, and place. She is also a wilderness guide\, educator\, and eternal student. Her work is the subject of a front-page feature in the Los Angeles Times\, an Oregon Art Beat profile\, an entry in the Oregon Encyclopedia\, and a feature in Poetry Daily. Her book CHORUS was selected by Kazim Ali as the winner of Omnidawn Press’ 1st /2nd Book Award. Her next book\, a blend of poetry\, essay\, and visual art and will be out in 2025 from Bored Wolves Press. Her visual work has been shown nationally\, is in public and private collections internationally\, and has been recognized by numerous grants\, fellowships\, and residencies. She founded the Art + Ecology program at the Pacific Northwest College of Art and helped found the backcountry artist residency Signal Fire. She is a 3G Jew\, daughter of immigrants\, and a student of the earth. She can be found in Portland\, Oregon\, and exploring global public wildlands. \nDaniela’s visit was made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
URL:https://arts.wells.edu/event/daniela-naomi-molnar-reading-talk/
LOCATION:String Room Gallery\, 170 Main St.\, Aurora\, NY\, 13026\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts
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SUMMARY:LANDING: Ben Altman\, Patrick Costello\, Hannah Bakken Morris\, Ash Ferlito\, Diane Schenandoah & Daniela Molnar
DESCRIPTION:  \nThursday\, Sept 14\, 4:30-6:30pm – Opening Reception – at 5:15pm\, join Diane Schenandoah [Oneida] outside for the planting of The Great Tree of Peace. \nThursday\, Oct 26\, 4:30-6:00pm – Closing Reception – starring a giant cake shaped like Patrick Costello’s monumental sculpture Piping\, baked by Ben Simon! \nAll are welcome! \n  \nLanding was made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
URL:https://arts.wells.edu/event/landing-ben-altman-patrick-costello-hannah-bakken-morris-ash-ferlito-diane-schenandoah-daniela-molnar/
LOCATION:Wells College\, 170 Main Street\, Aurora\, NY\, 13026\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230523
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SUMMARY:Senior Thesis Exhibition 2023: Construction Paper
DESCRIPTION:Opening Reception: Thursday\, April 27\, 4:30-6:30 p.m.  Light refreshments will be served. \nSasha Brady is a senior Visual Arts major at Wells College\, originally from Owego\, NY. Art has always been present in her life\, for as long as she can remember. Sasha uses charcoal\, ink\, watercolor\, graphite\, acrylic\, and digital media to explore representations of emotion. She tends to explore surrealism\, but has recently started to work with abstract expressionism – and so those two usually get mixed together. A primary underlying theme is the use of art in order to communicate raw feelings and ideas. \nFiona Chavez is a senior Visual Arts major at Wells College and grew up in Hell’s Kitchen\, New York City. In their eyes\, neighborhoods bled into each other when on foot.  After emerging from the city’s manmade subterranean vascular system\, one could be worlds away. She has always used mixed media to communicate when words weren’t enough for one vessel to contain. Fiona maintains several on-person sketchbooks as living records  of her ever-fleeting memory\, which act as her existence databases or personal almanacs.  The artist repeatedly works in thematic self-constructed systems derived from different fields of S.T.E.M. in tandem with their artistic exploration. Fiona favors maximalist schemes and uses hues of reds\, blues\, and greens to transform objective blacks into subjective forms. They taught themself how to sew at the age of 6 and have been investigating other fiber arts ever since. \nLuna is a multidisciplinary artist currently living in a haunted old almshouse near Seneca Falls\, NY. Their interest in the tactile quality of objects stems from their youth\, conjuring spells in trailer park mud puddles. Their art explores themes of nature\, role play\, gaming\, and resistance against binary thinking. Luna combines fiber art\, paper mache\, graphic design\, and 3D Printing in their most recent project: Worms In Space: A Live Action Role Play Card Game. The game builds off Luna’s interests in role play games like Pathfinder and Dungeons & Dragons. In earlier projects Luna explored the sculptural limitations of acrylic paint. They use the conclusions of the acrylic experiments to craft immersive spaces in which their game can be played.
URL:https://arts.wells.edu/event/construction-paper-senior-thesis-exhibition-2023/
LOCATION:String Room Gallery\, 170 Main St.\, Aurora\, NY\, 13026\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts
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ORGANIZER;CN="String Room Gallery":MAILTO:stringroomgallery@wells.edu
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230330
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230414
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SUMMARY:Wells in Review: Annual Student Exhibition 2023
DESCRIPTION: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. \nFeatured Student Artists: \nSarai White; Moeko Mizukami; Mandy Chen; Nia Etienne; Paige Taylor Wilson; Sol Rios; Maria Mironova; Brandi Bradley; Saoirse Murphy-Collins; Olive Blair; Ethan Yanacheak; Alexandria Holbrook; Daniel Rosenberg; Rosemary Byington; Sasha Brady; Luna Kolz; Fiona Chavez; Rebecca Lewis; Jiaying Wang; Noah Stoddard; Nathaniel Phillips; Annie Hyde; Sasha Lamoree
URL:https://arts.wells.edu/event/wells-in-review-annual-student-exhibition-2023/
LOCATION:String Room Gallery\, 170 Main St.\, Aurora\, NY\, 13026\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts
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ORGANIZER;CN="String Room Gallery":MAILTO:stringroomgallery@wells.edu
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230223
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230327
DTSTAMP:20260928T195103
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SUMMARY:That Day\, We Looked Happy: Rowan Renee
DESCRIPTION:February 23 – March 25\, 2023 \nThat 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\, they call attention to the dissonance between the nostalgic scenes depicted\, and the undercurrents of intergenerational trauma that are not visible. By retelling their family history to openly acknowledge family secrets\, Renee envisions the artistic process as an important tool for processing complex grief\, and forging new pathways to healing. \nRowan Renee (b. 1985\, West Palm Beach\, FL) is a Brooklyn-based artist who explores how queer identity is mediated by the law. In their research-led practice\, they collect imagery\, text and documents that address the intergenerational impact of gender-based violence and incarceration from State records and family archives. They use analog techniques – including darkroom photography\, printmaking\, loom-weaving\, and stained-glass – to engage their genderqueer body in labor that materially transforms histories of trauma. Installed as immersive installations\, these artifacts become counter-archives that complicate official narratives of truth and justice. \nThis exhibition was originally shown at Five Myles (Brooklyn\, NY) in 2021.  It was supported\, in part\, by the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant.
URL:https://arts.wells.edu/event/that-day-we-looked-happy-rowan-renee/
LOCATION:String Room Gallery\, 170 Main St.\, Aurora\, NY\, 13026\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts
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ORGANIZER;CN="String Room Gallery":MAILTO:stringroomgallery@wells.edu
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230124
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230224
DTSTAMP:20260928T195103
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SUMMARY:RE_MOVE: Kasia Ozga & Dan Rosenberg
DESCRIPTION:January 24 – February 23\, 2023 \nReception: January 24\, 4:30-6:30pm with a walkthrough by the artists at 5pm \nRE_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 ongoing projects including handmade paper\, architectural drawing templates\, thread\, found pigments and mixed-media elements. Located in America\, Rosenberg wrote poems that similarly expand this dialogue beyond the binary of correspondence by responding not just to Ozga’s images\, but to other writers whose work spoke to the moment\, including Dickinson\, Šalamun\, Amichai\, Blake\, Wittgenstein\, and Kierkegaard. This dialogue progressed as neither ekphrasis nor illustration\, but as a series of incitements that continued until they exhausted Ozga’s supply of repulped paper. Ozga and Rosenberg did not communicate outside of sending their work back and forth\, allowing this project to unfold within and between the media of its composition. For this exhibition\, they selected works that offered the opportunity to reimagine their dialogue\, exploring both the various potential embodiments of the poems in the gallery space and the diaristic\, iterative nature of the images as a series. This exhibition is the first opportunity for the artists to work together on this project in person\, bringing a digital conversation into a shared physical space. \nKasia Ozga is a Polish-French-American contemporary artist based between Chicago\, IL and Saint-Étienne\, France. She reuses\, revalues\, and reanimates mass-produced materials into singular artworks to invert the associations we make with different types of waste. Ozga holds a Ph.D. from the University of Paris 8. She is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Sculpture at Oberlin College. \nDan Rosenberg’s most recent collection of poems is Bassinet (Carnegie Mellon University Press 2022). His work has won the American Poetry Journal Book Prize and the Omnidawn Poetry Chapbook Contest\, and recent poems have appeared in the Kenyon Review\, Ploughshares\, and Poem-a-Day from the Academy of American Poets. He is an Associate Professor of English at Wells College.
URL:https://arts.wells.edu/event/re_move-kasia-ozga-dan-rosenberg/
LOCATION:String Room Gallery\, 170 Main St.\, Aurora\, NY\, 13026\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts
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ORGANIZER;CN="String Room Gallery":MAILTO:stringroomgallery@wells.edu
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20221117
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20221118
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SUMMARY:Visiting Artist Lecture: NIC Kay
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Thursday\, November 17\, 4:30pm in Zabriskie 106 to welcome Visiting Artist NIC Kay! \nNIC Kay is an interdisciplinary artist\, performer\, and conceptual choreographer who works with movement to explore relationality and yearning. Their most recents projects are #blackpeopledancingontheinternet and GET WELL SOON (exercises in getting well soon). \nIn this talk\, NIC will elaborate on the ways they translate performance into sculpture\, book art\, and other artistic mediums through a choreographic lens. \nnic-kay.com / @okaynickay \nThe talk will be livestreamed and archived here.
URL:https://arts.wells.edu/event/visiting-artist-lecture-nic-kay/
LOCATION:String Room Gallery\, 170 Main St.\, Aurora\, NY\, 13026\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts
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ORGANIZER;CN="String Room Gallery":MAILTO:stringroomgallery@wells.edu
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20221013
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20221125
DTSTAMP:20260928T195103
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SUMMARY:Stumbling Stumbling: Joshua AM Ross
DESCRIPTION:Stumbling Stumbling is an exhibition by Joshua AM Ross featuring a selection of new colored pencil and graphite works on paper. Ross is a photographer who works in drawing and fabric and is represented by Wonzimer Gallery (Los Angeles\, CA). Ross’ works create a multidimensional interaction that entangles both viewer and image within\, outside\, and between the gaps of what is shown. In this series\, echoed by the title\, the doubling of adverse events and orientations is proposed. Ross gives particular attention to the subject of consciousness in order to reveal ulterior aspects of reality. \n“PLEATS\, PLEASE”- I.M. \nOctober 13 – November 24\, 2022 \nOpen Reception: October 13\, 4:30-6:30pm \nArtist Talk: 5pm (Link to recording here)
URL:https://arts.wells.edu/event/stumbling-stumbling/
LOCATION:String Room Gallery\, 170 Main St.\, Aurora\, NY\, 13026\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts
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ORGANIZER;CN="String Room Gallery":MAILTO:stringroomgallery@wells.edu
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220922
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20221008
DTSTAMP:20260928T195103
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SUMMARY:Alum Art Show: Does This Ring A Bell?
DESCRIPTION:Does This Ring A Bell? \n‘To ring a bell’ – to sound familiar; to remind someone of something; to awaken a memory somewhere in someone’s mind. \nThe paintings\, photographs\, sculptures\, and other artwork included in this show are by Wells Alums known and anonymous from different decades. In celebration of the 100th Anniversary of the Bells\, the exhibition also features close ups of the inner workings of the Main Building Bell Tower with portraits\, past and present\, of The Bell Ringers Club. Does This Ring A Bell? provides us with a collection of student artists from then and now. Past and present come together in one space to show the continuous experience of self reflection that college students all alike go through. Time becomes irrelevant and shifts to an immersive happening that within an individual feels exclusive\, but becomes a collective experience. \nDoes This Ring A Bell? is curated by Sonia Rivera\, Wells ’23\, in collaboration with Jack Bjorkander\, Wells ’16\, Tiffany Raymond\, Wells ’10\, and Anna Ialeggio\, Assistant Professor of Studio Arts. \nSeptember 22 – October 7\, 2022
URL:https://arts.wells.edu/event/does-this-ring-a-bell/
LOCATION:String Room Gallery\, 170 Main St.\, Aurora\, NY\, 13026\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts
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ORGANIZER;CN="String Room Gallery":MAILTO:stringroomgallery@wells.edu
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220505
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220524
DTSTAMP:20260928T195103
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SUMMARY:Senior Thesis Exhibition 2022: Nothing is Where it Ought to Be
DESCRIPTION:The Visual Arts program of Wells College is proud to announce the opening of “Nothing is Where it Ought to be\,” a group exhibition of thesis work developed and crafted by our 2022 Studio Arts seniors: Avery Avalos\, Ellie Beavers\, and Angiee Otterbein. \nMay 5 – May 23\, 2022 \nOpening Reception: Thursday\, May 5\, 5:00 to 7:00 p.m.  Light refreshments will be served. \nThe exhibition will remain on view until May 23\, 2022. Please note that all individuals are required to wear masks indoors on the College’s campus. \nWhat is our own? What is authentic? “Nothing is Where it Ought to be” is a collective show tracing connections between individuals and our values on both a personal and social scale. We are not asking viewers to simply observe the work\, but to experience the sensations of interaction beyond sight. We are seeing\, being with\, and occupying space\, consumed with value and memory. \nIn an effort to reclaim their own fading memories\, Avery Avalos delves into the connection between photography\, memory\, and time in order to develop artworks that would allow their mind to retrieve moments they thought they had forgotten. Do you want to see the real thing\, or do you want to see the fake thing? Through her research into looted artworks at the British Museum\, and creative practice as a printmaker\, Ellie Beavers suggests that replicas can be an ethical and respectful way to appreciate the arts of colonized cultures. Angiee Otterbein has been investigating how the time\, effort and thought that goes into handmade objects increases the value of what could be an everyday object in terms of sentiment\, quantifiable labor\, physical presence and aesthetic impact.
URL:https://arts.wells.edu/event/senior-thesis-exhibition-2022-nothing-is-where-it-ought-to-be/
LOCATION:String Room Gallery\, 170 Main St.\, Aurora\, NY\, 13026\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220331
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220427
DTSTAMP:20260928T195103
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SUMMARY:I  tilted  over  until  it  becomes  horizon
DESCRIPTION:I tilted over until it becomes horizon\nOhan Breiding\, Abigail Raphael Collins\, dean erdmann\, EJ Hill\, & Joshua AM Ross \nMarch 31st – April 29th \nOpening Reception: March 31\, 5-7pm \nClosing Reception: April 29\, 4:30-6:15pm with artist walkthrough at 5pm \nI tilted over until it becomes horizon is a group exhibition that expands notions of queer kinship through shapeshifting and time travel. We morph as we encounter elements of water\, sound\, heat\, and gravity\, forging intimacies with each other as we take on new forms. “I” tilts over and individuation succumbs to new shared landscapes both internal and external. \nQueer is not yet here\, it is horizontal. What has it got to do with me? The horizon is the farthest thing that I can see\, the farthest thing with which the eye in me can be. Ohan Breiding shows how the horizon is at home\, a buoy\, a balloon\, a bladder ready to burst\, that piss pig will let into the void left in the body of it\, before it drains the pool. A series of pig bladders in gelatin silver prints meet with a pair of photographs birthed head first\, a submerged swimmer and a shoreline\, water bodies expansive and immersive\, loved\, liquid\, solid\, leaking. Joshua AM Ross makes the line a weft\, woven into a tapestry landscape drawn as a map of the marks that make a world out of sync scaled to its own rhythms to hold what’s dark and soft in color. Drawings in graphite and colored pencil wrap hands around color bands to make limbic landscapes. EJ Hill grows flowers in paint\, rooted in form they sprout in space to give laurels to the interior landscape. Acrylic florals conjure the collective gathering tableside to tend the horizon of regrowth in the wake of performance fatigue. Abigail Raphael Collins dances with dead dykes in a choreography of sound and silence\, speaking selves past and present into the fishing lure of voiced vision. Her video installation taps Dorothy Arzner’s boom mic for insight. Dean Erdmann publishes history in glass\, printing light to page loss. Recovered books from Magnus Hirschfeld’s destroyed library regain dimension in kiln cast glass\, and window vinyl translucencies shed light on the archive of queer dedication that frames print culture with care. \nUnseat the subject and you’re delivered into a scene: what are its coordinates? When I tilts its serifs still stand\, last vestiges of self but now as much water features as facial fragments\, limning landforms and enlivening horizon lines with the psychic intensities of a first person made plural on its side. Last and first then I meets its maker under water. The elemental is the primal scene for tilting itself\, a title for us to become the things we are through and through. \nExhibition text by Joan Lubin (2022). \nPhotographs by dean erdmann & Abigail Raphael Collins. \nReview by Sonya Merutka here.
URL:https://arts.wells.edu/event/i-tilted-over-until-it-becomes-horizon/
LOCATION:String Room Gallery\, 170 Main St.\, Aurora\, NY\, 13026\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220224
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220312
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SUMMARY:Life As Clouds: Regional Group Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:Life As Clouds\, a group exhibition juried and curated by the students of “Professional Practices in Visual Arts” at Wells College\, explores emergent themes among artworks by eighteen regionally-based artists in celebration of the place we call home: the ancestral lands of the Haudenosaunee\, in upstate New York.  Collectively\, these artworks evoke questions about the connection between our human bodies and nature.  Through various modalities and media\, the artists explore eddies and currents existing in between our creations of self and our conceptions of the world around us. \nBodies are changing into vegetables; a dead fawn stares up from the ground.  Horizon lines are everywhere but maybe that’s just the flickering light from this Zoom call.  Our skin cells replace themselves every day\, or so we’ve been told – rocks flow and every thrift store is a waterfall.  Stone was never permanent and those boobs are actually caterpillars.  Is that really how a brain works?  It feels chaotic\, but it’s just softly unravelling: grids\, systems\, nets\, mattresses\, roots.  Click here to escape!  Or purposely deteriorate.  Our lives\, as clouds. \nFeaturing the work of Mara Baldwin\, Amanda Besl\, Mia Brown-Seguin\, Erin Connolly\, Ash Ferlito\, Mia Hause\, Julie Harrison\, Miranda Javid\, Travis Johns\, Shayna Kiblin\, Lily LaGrange\, Cecelia Lu\, Kym McDaniel\, Grace Sachi Troxell\, Dan Torop\, Paulina Velázquez Solís\, Hannah Washburn\, and Layla Zubi. \nFebruary 24 – March 11\, 2022 \nOpening Reception: Thursday\, Feb 24 5-7pm \nLight refreshments will be served. \nWells College policy requires that  masks are worn indoors.
URL:https://arts.wells.edu/event/life-as-clouds-regional-group-exhibition/
LOCATION:String Room Gallery\, 170 Main St.\, Aurora\, NY\, 13026\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts
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ORGANIZER;CN="String Room Gallery":MAILTO:stringroomgallery@wells.edu
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210503
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210529
DTSTAMP:20260928T195103
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SUMMARY:Make It Better: Senior Thesis Exhibition 2021
DESCRIPTION:Make it Better is an exhibit on the possibility of healing through acts of making. Works on display portray a personal space in which life’s memories are reconstructed\, taking the form of environmental objects. The exhibition invites viewers to take part in their own reconstruction with materials available to create while in this environment which ties together personal and collective experiences. \nMay 3rd through May 28th\, 2021\nBy appointment only; email stringroomgallery@wells.edu \n— \nVIRTUAL EVENT: Sunday\, May 2nd at 4PM ET\nMake It Better\, Artists’ Talk by Keelan McGreevy \nOPENING RECEPTION: Friday\, May 7th\, 5-7pm\nFor members of the Wells College community only.  Please be prepared to show your “green check” from the Daily Health Screening.
URL:https://arts.wells.edu/event/make-it-better/
LOCATION:String Room Gallery\, 170 Main St.\, Aurora\, NY\, 13026\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts
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ORGANIZER;CN="String Room Gallery":MAILTO:stringroomgallery@wells.edu
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200901
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210515
DTSTAMP:20260928T195103
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SUMMARY:Virtual Lecture Series 20-21
DESCRIPTION:This Academic Year 20-21 Season\, please join us for virtual lecture events.\nSCHEDULE \n All virtual events are FREE and open to the public. \n 
URL:https://arts.wells.edu/event/virtual-lecture-series/
LOCATION:String Room Gallery\, 170 Main St.\, Aurora\, NY\, 13026\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts
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ORGANIZER;CN="String Room Gallery":MAILTO:stringroomgallery@wells.edu
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200325
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200419
DTSTAMP:20260928T195103
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SUMMARY:Better Together
DESCRIPTION:March 25 – April 18 2020 \nCMYKings\, Homie House Press\, Genderfail\, Impractical Labor in Service of the Speculative Arts (ILSSA)\, Jesse Malmed\, Passenger Pigeon Press\, Temporary Services\, and Breanne Trammell \nCurated by Leah Mackin\, Better Together strives to create an active Reading Room\, where the Wells College community is invited to handle\, read\, and share an assortment of projects and artworks that create\, support\, and engage with communities through the power of print. The artists and publishers represented in this exhibition utilize serialized narratives\, submission-based projects\, iterative gestures\, and documentary methods to produce bookworks\, in an expanded definition of publishing. The works remind us of the importance of a supportive and encouraging community. Reading may be thought of as a solitary practice\, but perhaps under the right circumstances it is better together. \nLeah Mackin is a visual artist and educator who explores themes of reflection\, response\, and re-creation through performative publishing projects. Mackin holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BFA in Printmaking+Book Arts from The University of the Arts. Her work has been exhibited widely\, and is held in numerous collections. She is Assistant Director and Academic Coordinator at the Book Arts Center at Wells College. \nThis exhibition is organized in recognition of Mackin’s role as the Victor Hammer Fellow in the Wells College Book Arts Center during 2018-2019. Mackin has since assumed the role of Academic Coordinator and Assistant Director of the Book Arts Center.  The Victor Hammer Fellowship was established in 1998 to bring emerging book artists to the Wells Book Arts Center for a two-year teaching and production residency.
URL:https://arts.wells.edu/event/better-together/
LOCATION:String Room Gallery\, 170 Main St.\, Aurora\, NY\, 13026\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts
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ORGANIZER;CN="String Room Gallery":MAILTO:stringroomgallery@wells.edu
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200206
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200303
DTSTAMP:20260928T195103
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SUMMARY:Student Exhibition 2020
DESCRIPTION:Opening Reception: February 6\, 2020 4:45-6:00pm \nWells 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 letterpress printing\, handmade books\, design\, ceramics\, calligraphy\, sculpture\, and mixed-media work. \nImage: sculpture (detail) by Keelan McGreevy (’21)\, ceramic and LEDs\, 2019
URL:https://arts.wells.edu/event/2020-student-exhibition/
LOCATION:String Room Gallery\, 170 Main St.\, Aurora\, NY\, 13026\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts
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ORGANIZER;CN="String Room Gallery":MAILTO:stringroomgallery@wells.edu
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20191108
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20191207
DTSTAMP:20260928T195103
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SUMMARY:The Strangeness of Structure: Siobhan McBride\, Laini Nemett\, Anna Ortiz\, Kate Stone\, and Virginia Wagner
DESCRIPTION:Reception: November 8\, 4:30-6:30 pm \nFirst staged at the University Center Gallery at Adelphi University\, this exhibition features the work of New York-based artists Siobhan McBride\, Laini Nemett\, Anna Ortiz\, Kate Stone\, and Virginia Wagner\, curated by Jonathan Duff\, Exhibitions and Art Collection Curator at Adelphi University. The work in this exhibition cites imagery of built and variously collapsing structures\, illuminating a fundamental concern for the ways built and constructed systems are shifting\, perhaps to our collective detriment. As Duff writes\, “In an era of environmental crisis\, mass immigration\, war and changing national boundaries; space and structure have become core variables in the most important challenges we face as a species.” Without explicitly employing specific images of these concerns\, these artists collectively articulate the precariousness\, tenuousness\, and brittleness of the constructed environment on which we have come to rely.
URL:https://arts.wells.edu/event/the-strangeness-of-structure/
LOCATION:String Room Gallery\, 170 Main St.\, Aurora\, NY\, 13026\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts
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ORGANIZER;CN="String Room Gallery":MAILTO:stringroomgallery@wells.edu
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190906
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20191012
DTSTAMP:20260928T195103
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SUMMARY:Ted Lossowski: Over Forty Years
DESCRIPTION:Opening Reception: September 6\, 4:30-6:30 pm \nThe String Room Gallery of Wells College is pleased to announce the opening of a career-spanning exhibition of work by Wells College Visual Arts Professor\, Ted Lossowski. Ted Lossowski: Over Forty Years will feature work from throughout his career in art-making\, in recognition of his upcoming retirement from Wells College in May\, 2020. All are welcome to the Gallery for a public reception on September 6\, 4:30-6:30 pm; the exhibition will remain on view until October 11. \nTrained as a ceramic sculptor at SUNY-Brockport (B.S.) and Rochester Institute of Technology (M.F.A.)\, Lossowski has built a practice rooted in a careful attention to refined craftsmanship. He works to find balance between materials such as clay\, wood\, and metal\, with a focus on surface quality and texture. He finds particular interest in the properties of stack-laminated wood\, with consistent work in thrown\, hand-built\, and slump-molded ceramic techniques. Throughout his work\, Lossowski has frequently called on two fundamental forms: concentric circles and the post-and-lintel. His use of circles\, evocative of the ceramic vessel tradition in which he so carefully trained\, suggests a continuum\, while he views the post-and-lintel as a symbol of transition or passage. \nLossowski will retire from Wells College after having served 31 years as a faculty member in the college’s Visual Arts Program\, during which time he served terms as Program Chair and Fine Arts Division Chair. Prior to Wells\, he taught ceramics at SUNY-Brockport\, the Jewish Community Center of Rochester\, Finger Lakes Community College\, and Monroe Community College. He has shown his work throughout the region\, including exhibitions at the Memorial Art Gallery (Rochester)\, the Renaissance Art Gallery (Rochester)\, the Schweinfurth Art Center (Auburn)\, and the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts Invitational.
URL:https://arts.wells.edu/event/ted-lossowski-over-forty-years/
LOCATION:String Room Gallery\, 170 Main St.\, Aurora\, NY\, 13026\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts
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ORGANIZER;CN="String Room Gallery":MAILTO:stringroomgallery@wells.edu
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