Arts @ Wells College

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

This Academic Year 20-21 Season, please join us for virtual lecture events. SCHEDULE   All virtual events are FREE and open to the public.  

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

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. May 5 - May 23, 2022 Opening Reception: Thursday, May 5, 5:00 ... Read more

Does This Ring A Bell? 'To ring a bell' – to sound familiar; to remind someone of something; to awaken a memory somewhere in someone's mind. The 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 ... Read more

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 ... Read more

Please join us on Thursday, November 17, 4:30pm in Zabriskie 106 to welcome Visiting Artist NIC Kay! NIC 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). In this talk, NIC ... Read more