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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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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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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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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230223
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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
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210503
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210529
DTSTAMP:20260928T152128
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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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200901
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210515
DTSTAMP:20260928T152128
CREATED:20230412T151246Z
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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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200325
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200419
DTSTAMP:20260928T152128
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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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200206
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200303
DTSTAMP:20260928T152128
CREATED:20230412T151246Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240413T180044Z
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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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20191108
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20191207
DTSTAMP:20260928T152128
CREATED:20230412T151246Z
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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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190906
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20191012
DTSTAMP:20260928T152128
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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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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190502
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190503
DTSTAMP:20260928T152128
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SUMMARY:Senior Thesis Exhibition 2019
DESCRIPTION:The Visual Arts program is pleased to announce the opening of a two-person exhibition by senior Wells students Joyglenn Lionel and Chris A. Price. The show will be open to the public for a reception on May 3\, 6-8 pm\, and will remain on view by appointment until May 18. \nJoyglenn Lionel (Brooklyn\, New York) is an interdisciplinary artist currently working with wood\, paper\, and installation to create architectural sculptures depicting what gentrification may look like if condensed into one moment. While at Wells\, Joyglenn spent a semester studying abroad in Florence\, Italy at Lorenzo de Medici\, and studied widely through the liberal arts in fields such as Psychology\, Anthropology\, Philosophy\, Political Science\, Sustainability\, and Creative Writing. Joyglenn will graduate from Wells College in May with a major in Visual Arts: Studio Art. \nChris Price is a lifelong resident of Auburn\, New York\, where he received an Associate’s Degree in Studio Art from Cayuga Community College.  Chris uses painting\, letterpress\, and hand-bound books to consider the connections between perception\, labor\, and representation. Chris was introduced to book arts at the Wells College Book Arts Center\, and currently works at Bixler Press & Type Foundry. He will graduate from Wells in May with a major in Visual Arts: Studio Art and a minor in Book Arts. \n 
URL:https://arts.wells.edu/event/senior-thesis-exhibition-2019/
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190322
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190420
DTSTAMP:20260928T152128
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SUMMARY:Visual Noise: Amos Paul Kennedy Jr.
DESCRIPTION:March 22 – April 19\, 2019\nArtist’s Reception: April 19\, 6:30-8:00 p.m. \n\nVisual Noise features 740 recent letterpress poster prints by acclaimed letterpress printer and book artist Amos Paul Kennedy\, Jr. Kennedy is an internationally-recognized fixture in the letterpress community. Renowned for his bold use of typography and renegade letterpress technique\, he has built a forceful\, witty\, and incisive creative practice. He is careful to align his work and persona\, using both to interrogate past and present experiences of race\, class\, education\, labor\, and art. The letterpress posters in this exhibition include selections from several series of work\, drawing on a wide range topics and texts including (but certainly not limited to) the words of Rosa Parks\, declarations for the necessity of books and libraries\, forceful reminders of America’s foundational relationship with slavery\, the alignment between food and identity\, and praise for acts of skilled making. \nWhile his work is widely exhibited and held in collections\, he ensures access to his posters by selling them at affordable prices. Visual Noise will culminate with a “Cash & Carry” event\, and all posters will be available for purchase. \nKennedy will be in residence on campus April 15-19\, conducting a week-long series of events co-sponsored by The Wells Book Arts Center\, Office of Diversity and Inclusion\, the String Room Gallery and the Wells College Scholar-In-Residence program. \nAll are welcome to join Kennedy at the following public events during his residency: \n\nOpen Printing Drop-In Session: April 15\, 3:30-6:00 p.m. — Morgan Hall\nOpen Printing Drop-In Session: April 16\, 3:30-6:00 p.m. — Morgan Hall\nTea Time with Amos: April 17\, 3:00 PM — Sommer Center\nDocumentary Film Screening\, Proceed and Be Bold: April 17\, 7:00 p.m. — Stratton Hall Room 209\nArtist Talk\, Talkin’ Loud and Sayin’ Nothin‘: April 18\, 6:00 p.m. — Stratton 209\nClosing Reception and Cash & Carry\, Visual Noise: April 19\,  6:30—8:00 p.m. — String Room Gallery
URL:https://arts.wells.edu/event/visual-noise/
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:20190201
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190303
DTSTAMP:20260928T152128
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SUMMARY:Annual Student Exhibition 2019
DESCRIPTION:Opening Reception: February 1\, 5-6:30pm \n\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\, photography\, ceramics\, calligraphy\, sculpture\, and mixed-media work. \nFeatured Student Artists:\nAala Al-Hashimi\, Brittany Anderson\, Brianna Ball\, Gabrielle Beavers\, Alyssa Bogard\, Leandra Campbell\, Courtney Cloutier\, Katelynn Commisso\, Shelby Cushing\, Nicole D’Aurizio\, David Dames\, Clara DiMino\, Autumn Elwood\, Sam Fellman\, Nikolas Gonzalez\, Natasha Graham\, Koi Guilbeaux\, Dalibor Hibiki Hanes\, Hannah Hatton\, Alisa Hines\, Mattie Joyce\, Caroline Kelemen\, Mary Lambdin\, Charisse Lambert\, Xianyue Lin\, Joyglenn Lionel\, Colson Martin\, Jessica Martinelly\, Nadia McCary\, Keelan McGreevy\, Tehya Mcknight\, Sofia Cruz Morataya\, Janice Nascimento\, Angela Otterbein\, Laurel Pitcher\, Christopher A. Price\, Christopher E. Price\, Darielis Rivas\, Destiny Rivera\, Elaina Rose\, Joshua Rose\, Alexis Scarlata\, Abigail Schoenfelder\, Maya Solana\, Brianna Tapia
URL:https://arts.wells.edu/event/2019-student-exhibition/
LOCATION:String Room Gallery\, 170 Main St.\, Aurora\, NY\, 13026\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts
ORGANIZER;CN="String Room Gallery":MAILTO:stringroomgallery@wells.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20181018
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20181201
DTSTAMP:20260928T152128
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LAST-MODIFIED:20240413T175912Z
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SUMMARY:WBAC@25
DESCRIPTION:October 18 – November 20 2018 \nJocelyn Webb Pederson\, Terrence Chouinard\, Sarah Roberts\, Margot Ecke\, Rachel Wiecking\, Sarah Bryant\, Katie Baldwin\, Laura Rowley\, Jenna Rodriguez\, H.R. Buechler\, & Leah Mackin. \nThis exhibition celebrates the 25th anniversary of the Wells Book Arts Center by featuring the work of all eleven artists who have served as Victor Hammer Fellow. This exhibition brings these artists together for the first time\, including work produced during their fellowships as well as from the careers they’ve built since their time at Wells. Established in 1998\, the Fellowship provides an opportunity for artists actively working in the book arts to share their practices with Wells College through teaching\, working\, and collaborating. \nSince its founding\, the Wells Book Arts Center has become a unique center of production and study in the Book Arts\, with highly sought-after facilities and vibrant year-round programming. In addition to integrating into the academic curriculum of the Visual Arts Program\, the Book Arts Center collaborates with the Wells College Visiting Writer’s Series\, operates the Wells College Press\, draws accomplished book art artists to campus through regular workshops\, lectures\, and the annual Summer Book Arts Institute. \nFor more information please visit https://wellsbookartscenter.org/
URL:https://arts.wells.edu/event/wbac25/
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:20180907
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20181006
DTSTAMP:20260928T152128
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SUMMARY:Bow\, Bend\, & Tarry: Mara Baldwin
DESCRIPTION:September 7 – October 5 2018\nOpening Reception: Sep. 7\, 5:00-6:30pm\nArtist’s Talk: Sep. 20\, 5:00pm\n\n\n\n What happens when a community’s foundational beliefs ultimately lead to their inability to thrive? A once rapidly growing utopian society\, the Shaker’s numbers have now dwindled due to a rigid belief system demanding celibacy\, autonomy\, and skepticism of new members. The Shakers in the present day are left with only two members\, their society soon to be survived only by their work\, most notably their exquisitely labored furniture and impressive archive of songs. Recent work by Mara Baldwin considers this post-utopian landscape and legacy left behind\, exploring the persistence of a disappeared community by examining what remains. This work does not seek to provide a historical recreation or celebration of Shaker traditions specifically\, but views their labor and devotion as a departure point for creating work that blurs the lines between collectivity & authorship\, mourning & survival\, and reminiscence & change. Baldwin’s greater practice explores the space between real and imagined narratives from utopian literature\, folk tales\, ghost stories\, and pulp paperback science fiction. Her drawings\, sculptures\, and installations pay particular attention to the historical spaces\, emotional politics\, longings\, and labor of women. Through obsessive repetition and detailed laborious rendering\, historical & fictional narratives are unraveled to question issues of authenticity\, community\, and inclusivity. \nMara Baldwin received her MFA from the California College of the Arts (2010) and her BFA from Wesleyan University (2006). Her work has shown at the Johnson Art Museum (Cornell University)\, Facebook Manhattan\, PLAySPACE\, the San Francisco Arts Commission\, SOMArts\, UC Berkeley\, Triple Base Gallery\, Root Division\, and Capricious/Company Gallery. Her accolades include the Murphy Cadogan Award\, an SFMoMA SECA nomination\, and residencies with the Millay Colony\, Ucross Foundation\, Saltonstall Foundation\, and the Djerassi Resident Artists Program. She currently lives and works in Ithaca\, New York.
URL:https://arts.wells.edu/event/bow-bend-tarry/
LOCATION:String Room Gallery\, 170 Main St.\, Aurora\, NY\, 13026\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts
ORGANIZER;CN="String Room Gallery":MAILTO:stringroomgallery@wells.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180507
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180520
DTSTAMP:20260928T152128
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SUMMARY:Senior Thesis Exhibition 2018
DESCRIPTION:Opening Reception: May 7\, 6-8pm \n\nThe Wells College Visual Arts Department is pleased to announce the opening of the 2018 Senior Thesis Exhibition. The show features the culminating works by Wells’ senior Visual Art: Studio Art Majors: Sonja Anderson\, Amanda Bottorff\, Alexis Simone Reinhold\, and Jasmine Wittig. The public is invited to attend the opening reception in the String Room Gallery on Monday\, May 7th from 6-8 pm\, where they will have the opportunity to meet and talk with the artists at that time. Light refreshments will be served. For those interested who cannot attend the opening\, the show will run through May 19th\, open by appointment. \nSonja Anderson (Aurora NY) is a mixed media and conceptual artist. She is currently exploring systems of belief and the search for meaning through the creation of a paradox that poses as a religious concept. She uses found objects and collage\, and sources ideas and materials from her local surroundings. Her current exhibition in the Wells College String Room Gallery is The Void\, which presents the contradictory belief and worship of nothing. It takes physical form through anointed objects\, collage\, video\, and a physical space. Through sight\, sound and touch one can begin to understand what it means to be one with nothingness. \nAmanda Bottorff (Cicero\, NY) is a ceramic artist whose work addresses the shame imposed on women and female bodies. She has created an interactive collection of ceramic tessellation tiles\, featuring text sourced from friends\, family\, and Wells College students\, that invites the public to a safe space where they can put together words that describe their experiences of living in the world. Her goal is to promote autonomy and break down taboos surrounding women and the female body. \nAlexis Simone Reinhold (Manhattan Beach\, CA/ East Greenbush\, NY) is a fiber and material artist. She is currently working to weaponize the process of weaving\, drawing parallels between the historical oppressions women have endured and the present ways in which women revert to weaponizing everyday objects. By using fiber processes to represent the female/femme experience\, Reinhold connects material to the tangible ways that women are affected by rape culture and the society that condones it. \nJasmine Wittig (Odessa\, NY) is a multimedia artist. With her current work she explores the online conversation revolving around millennials. She has done this through multiple works\, with varying degrees of simplicity that force the viewer to directly confront the issue presented. Her goal is to capture the narrative that is being forced onto the millennial generation by popular media.
URL:https://arts.wells.edu/event/senior-thesis-exhibition-2018/
LOCATION:String Room Gallery\, 170 Main St.\, Aurora\, NY\, 13026\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts
ORGANIZER;CN="String Room Gallery":MAILTO:stringroomgallery@wells.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180322
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180427
DTSTAMP:20260928T152128
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LAST-MODIFIED:20230928T154253Z
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SUMMARY:W+W / Wires + Waves: H.R. Buechler
DESCRIPTION:March 22 – April 26\, 2018 \nThe String Room Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition by interdisciplinary artist H.R. Buechler\, the outgoing Victor Hammer Fellow at the Wells College Book Arts Center. The exhibition marks the culmination of Buechler’s two-year fellowship at the college\, and features a collection of recent works Buechler created between 2016-2018. \nThrough a variety of reproductive media\, understood as acts of translation\, Buechler addresses a variety of concerns regarding our relationship with historic and contemporary communication systems\, the dis/functionality of language\, and loss as both an ephemeral and material phenomenon. Each piece in W+W explores what is lost and gained in the intellectual and physical processes of translation\, and attempts to quantify—materialize—the gap/the space/the void between each medial transaction by exposing translational errors. These errors\, which Buechler reads as “miscommunication”—information lost\, but also gained—augments the final message materialized in the works throughout the exhibition. \nWith W+W we are asked\, how do we quantify the unquantifiable?
URL:https://arts.wells.edu/event/ww-wires-waves/
LOCATION:String Room Gallery\, 170 Main St.\, Aurora\, NY\, 13026\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts
ORGANIZER;CN="String Room Gallery":MAILTO:stringroomgallery@wells.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180201
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180303
DTSTAMP:20260928T152128
CREATED:20230412T151240Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240413T175829Z
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SUMMARY:2018 Student Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:Feb 1 – March 3 2018 \nThe Visual Arts Program of Wells College is pleased to announce the 2018 annual Student Exhibition. Comprised of select works from courses throughout the curriculum\, the exhibition features artwork by students ranging from first to senior year. This year’s show includes selections of bookbinding\, collage\, letterpress\, calligraphy\, painting\, photography\, fiber\, ceramics\, and sculpture. \nimage: Alissa Bell (’18)\, gelatin silver print (detail)\, 2017
URL:https://arts.wells.edu/event/2018-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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20171103
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20171211
DTSTAMP:20260928T152128
CREATED:20230412T151240Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230928T154253Z
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SUMMARY:Jozef Bajus: Recent Work
DESCRIPTION: Opening Reception: Friday\, Nov. 3\, 6-8 pm\n\n\n\nThe String Room Art Gallery of Wells College is proud to announce an exhibition featuring award-winning artist Jozef Bajus. Jozef Bajus: Recent Work opens on November 3\, 2017\, and will remain open to the public until December 10. All are welcome to join the artist for a free reception on November 3\, 2017 from 6-8 pm. \nJozef Bajus’s work is characterized by exquisitely-rendered structural interventions in found and cast-off materials such as books\, tar paper\, personal correspondence\, and remnants of manufactured leather and felt. The resulting works range in scale\, from small folded-paper sculptures to a suspended installation spanning the Gallery’s main exhibition space. Jozef Bajus: Recent Work brings together selections from several bodies of work\, all of which demonstrate the artist’s ability to derive extraordinary formal invention from the inherent characteristics of the materials with which he works. \nBajus’s use of found materials suggests a celebration of material economy and efforts towards sustainability; his practice is the result of both a dedication to meticulous process and the discovery inherent in working with materials that may have otherwise been discarded. In writing about his work\, he describes chance and surprise elements as becoming “the animating spirit of solving artistic problems.” \nBajus is an award winning mixed media artist. Originally from Slovakia\, Bajus received his MFA from the Academy of Fine Arts and Design\, (AFAD)\, Bratislava\, Slovakia. He began his teaching career in 1990 during the Velvet Revolution\, an exciting and tumultuous time in Slovakia’s history. It was a time of great energy and new beginnings\, including the building of a new Fiber program at AFAD headed by Bajus. \nSince that time\, he has held positions of visiting scholar\, instructor\, and coordinator at various colleges and programs in the United States and abroad including\, the Rhode Island School of Design\, Slippery Rock University\, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts\, Penland School of Crafts\, Arrowmont School of Arts & Crafts\, Split Rock\, Kanazawa College of Art (Japan)\, and Jianxing University (China). Currently\, Bajus is an Associate Professor at SUNY Buffalo State College\, Buffalo\, New York and serves as the Coordinator of the Fibers/Design Program. \nHis career has earned him numerous prestigious awards and recognition. He has been the recipient of 1st Place\, Triennial of Pattern\, Budapest\, Hungary; selected for Triennial of Tapestry\, Muzeum Wlokienictva Lodz\, Poland; The George Soros Fellowship Award; Residency at Rutgers University and the Judith Brodsky Center for Print and Paper\, New Brunswick\, New Jersey; Esprit de Corps Award\, Burchfield Penney Art Center (BPAC)\, Buffalo\, New York; Presidents Award for Excellence and Creativity\, BSC\, Buffalo; The Henkel Award\, Bratislava\, Slovakia and the Langley H. Kenzie Award\, BPAC\, Buffalo. \nBajus’ work has exhibited in numerous one – person\, and groups exhibitions\, nationally and internationally\, and is in the collection of many museums\, art galleries worldwide including the Slovak National Gallery\, Bratislava; The City Gallery of Bratislava – Mirbach Palace\, Bratislava; Trencin Art Gallery of M.A.B.\, Trencin\, all in Slovakia; as well as the Burchfield Penney Art Center\, Buffalo; the Gregg Museum of Art and Design in Raleigh\, North Carolina; The Racine Art Museum in Racine\, Wisconsin; Szombathely Art Museum in Szombathely\, Hungary; and The Moravian Art & Craft Museum in Brno\, Czech Republic. His artwork is also included in private collections in Europe\, North America\, Japan\, and China.
URL:https://arts.wells.edu/event/jozef-bajus-recent-work/
LOCATION:String Room Gallery\, 170 Main St.\, Aurora\, NY\, 13026\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts
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SUMMARY:Objects of Unknown Use: Marianne Dages
DESCRIPTION:September 14 – 20 2017 \nMarianne Dages is a Philadelphia based artist who describes her work as “artist investigating the crossroads between image\, language\, and thought.” She will conduct a two-week artist residency on the Wells College campus to expand ideas found in her recent artist book\, Objects of Unknown Use\, during which time she will share her practice with Wells College students. \nDages’s residency is co-hosted by the Wells College Book Arts Center and the String Room Gallery\, with support from the Wells College Scholar In Residence Program. \nArtist’s Project Description: \nObjects of Unknown Use is a book that reflects upon two very different systems of belief\, aliens and death. Inspired by the simultaneous reading of three texts; a UFO encounter blog\, a catalog of The Egyptian Museum of Antiquities\, and R.O. Faulkner’s translation of The Egyptian Book of the Dead\, the book weaves together the narrative voices of future and past\, life and afterlife. In this book\, I employ the language of collections\, collected objects and experiences\, to write a post apocalyptic narrative; the journey of a nameless traveler and their double or ka. Their voices intertwine to become a science fiction poetic text\, complemented by atmospheric imagery of skies\, ancient objects of art\, and wings\, symbol of flight and the soul. \nAn interview between Marianne Dages and H. R. Buechler (interdisciplinary artist\, Victor Hammer Fellow at the Wells College Book Arts Center) may be found here.
URL:https://arts.wells.edu/event/objects-of-unknown-use/
LOCATION:String Room Gallery\, 170 Main St.\, Aurora\, NY\, 13026\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts
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SUMMARY:Senior Thesis Exhibition 2017
DESCRIPTION:May 8 – 20\, 2017\nReception: Monday\, May 8\, 6-8pm\n\n\n\n\nThe Wells College Visual Arts Department is pleased to announce the opening of the Annual Senior Thesis Exhibition. The exhibition will showcase the culminating thesis work of graduating seniors Kim Brighon Jr.\, Camille McNally and Jennifer VanWormer. The exhibition will open on May 8th at 6:00 pm\, with a reception providing an opportunity to meet and talk to the artists. Light refreshments will be served. The gallery will be open by appointment through May 20th. \nKim Brighon Jr (Bolivar\, NY)  creates highly personal work that combines acrylic paint on canvas with sculpturally crafted ceramics to bring a mobile wall of graffiti into the gallery. This work spreads a political message about newly-fashioned bonds within a family. \nCamille McNally (Ira\, NY) makes abstract drawings based on frottage\, mark making\, color interaction and her symbiotic relationship with trees. McNally is a nontraditional student who started her BFA at SUNY Oswego in 1985. She returned to her academic pursuit after raising her two daughters in rural upstate NY. McNally will attend the Painting and Drawing MFA program at Pratt Institute in the fall\, and plans to pursue a teaching career thereafter. \nJennifer VanWormer (Liverpool\, NY) is a sculptural ceramic artist. Her current body of work contains over 200 human figures\, collectively depicting a wide range of human experiences with each other. She aims to create a sense of diversity and acceptance within this crowd. Van Wormer plans to pursue an MFA in ceramics and a career as a college professor. \nThe String Room Gallery is a center for the exhibition of contemporary art in the Finger Lakes region of New York. It is located on the Wells College campus in the southwest corner of the first floor of Main Building. To make schedule a viewing of this exhibition\, or for more information\, please see the gallery’s website at www.wells.edu/string-room-gallery or contact Professor Katie Waugh at 315.364.3237.
URL:https://arts.wells.edu/event/senior-exhibition-2017/
LOCATION:String Room Gallery\, 170 Main St.\, Aurora\, NY\, 13026\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts
ORGANIZER;CN="String Room Gallery":MAILTO:stringroomgallery@wells.edu
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SUMMARY:Lifecycle: Rachel Wren
DESCRIPTION:March 31 – April 28\, 2017\nArtist’s Talk: April 4\, 4:45 pm\, followed by Reception until 7:00 pm\n\n\n\n\nLifecycle brings together paintings and small works on paper\, demonstrating Wren’s ability to create complex representations of depth through variations in well-chosen line and color. Using precise and methodical brushwork\, she builds ethereal\, abstracted fields of color tethered to meticulously gridded surfaces. Her work contains a number of tensions: illusionistic depictions of space at once flattened by crisp line\, gently undulating gradients parceled out in regimented structure\, and form that gives way to blurred haze.These tensions derive from her interest in transitional moments in the natural world\, when atmospheric states seem about to give way to change. She describes this work as “an interplay that suggests the universal duality between structure and randomness\, order and chaos\, the known and the unknown.” \nRachael Wren received a BA from the University of Pennsylvania and an MFA from the University of Washington. She has had solo shows at Wave Hill\, The Painting Center\, Schema Projects\, the University of Massachusetts\, Lowell\, and Providence College. Her work has been included in group exhibitions at the Weatherspoon Art Museum\, the National Academy Museum\, Garis & Hahn\, Jeff Bailey Gallery\, Geoffrey Young Gallery\, Trestle Gallery\, and the Fosdick-Nelson Gallery at Alfred University\, among many others. Rachael is the recipient of the Julius Hallgarten Prize from the National Academy Museum and an Aljira Fellowship. She has been awarded residencies at Chashama North\, the Saltonstall Foundation\, the Byrdcliffe Art Colony\, the Vermont Studio Center\, the Anderson Center\, and the Artist House at St. Mary’s College of Maryland. She lives and works in Brooklyn\, NY. \nWren’s exhibition and on-campus visit is generously sponsored in part by the Wells College Scholar In Residence program.
URL:https://arts.wells.edu/event/lifecycle/
LOCATION:String Room Gallery\, 170 Main St.\, Aurora\, NY\, 13026\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts
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