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September 7 - October 5 2018 Opening Reception: Sep. 7, 5:00-6:30pm Artist's Talk: Sep. 20, 5:00pm 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 ... Read more
October 18 - November 20 2018 Jocelyn Webb Pederson, Terrence Chouinard, Sarah Roberts, Margot Ecke, Rachel Wiecking, Sarah Bryant, Katie Baldwin, Laura Rowley, Jenna Rodriguez, H.R. Buechler, & Leah Mackin. This exhibition celebrates the 25th anniversary of the Wells Book Arts Center by featuring the work of all eleven artists who have served as Victor ... Read more
Opening Reception: February 1, 5-6:30pm 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 letterpress printing, handmade books, photography, ceramics, calligraphy, sculpture, and mixed-media work. Featured Student Artists: Aala Al-Hashimi, Brittany Anderson, Brianna Ball, Gabrielle Beavers, Alyssa Bogard, ... Read more
March 22 - April 19, 2019 Artist's Reception: April 19, 6:30-8:00 p.m. Visual 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 ... Read more
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. Joyglenn Lionel (Brooklyn, New York) ... Read more
Opening Reception: September 6, 4:30-6:30 pm The 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 ... Read more
Reception: November 8, 4:30-6:30 pm First 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 ... Read more
Opening Reception: February 6, 2020 4:45-6:00pm 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 letterpress printing, handmade books, design, ceramics, calligraphy, sculpture, and mixed-media work. Image: sculpture (detail) by Keelan McGreevy ('21), ceramic and LEDs, 2019
March 25 - April 18 2020 CMYKings, Homie House Press, Genderfail, Impractical Labor in Service of the Speculative Arts (ILSSA), Jesse Malmed, Passenger Pigeon Press, Temporary Services, and Breanne Trammell Curated by Leah Mackin, Better Together strives to create an active Reading Room, where the Wells College community is invited to handle, read, and share ... Read more
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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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
