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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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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210515
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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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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200325
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200419
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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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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
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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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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190906
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20191012
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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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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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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190322
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190420
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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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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190201
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190303
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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
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20181018
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20181201
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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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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20181006
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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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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180507
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180520
DTSTAMP:20260928T173523
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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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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180322
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180427
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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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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180201
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180303
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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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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20171211
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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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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20171021
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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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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170508
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170521
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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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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170331
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170429
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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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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170202
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170304
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SUMMARY:Annual Student Exhibition 2017
DESCRIPTION:Reception: February 2\, 6-8 pm\n\n\n\n\nThe Wells College Visual Arts Department announces the opening of the 2017 Annual Student Exhibition in the school’s String Room Gallery. The public is invited to a reception on Thursday\, February 2nd from 6 – 8 pm. The exhibition will be on view from February 2nd through March 3rd. 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 iteration includes work by over 55 students\, featuring letterpress printing\, handmade books\, photography\, ceramics\, drawing\, calligraphy\, and mixed-media work.
URL:https://arts.wells.edu/event/2017-annual-student-exhibition/
LOCATION:String Room Gallery\, 170 Main St.\, Aurora\, NY\, 13026\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20161103
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20161208
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SUMMARY:Return to Me: Margaret Inga Urías
DESCRIPTION:November 3 – December 7\, 2016  \n\nReception: November 11\, 4:30-6:30 pm with Artist’s Talk at 5:00 pm\n\n\n\n“Return to Me” features cosmologically-inspired drawings\, photographs\, engraved glass\, large-scale murals\, and sound. With meticulous detail\, a stark black-and-white palette\, and dramatic shifts in scale\, Urías creates work inspired by her belief that dust\, if examined closely enough\, “could tell the story of everything that ever existed.” This work speaks to both origination and aftermath\, and is permeated by images of fragmentation\, entropy\, and the ethereal.
URL:https://arts.wells.edu/event/return-to-me/
LOCATION:String Room Gallery\, 170 Main St.\, Aurora\, NY\, 13026\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20160901
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20161015
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SUMMARY:Analog Futures: Aldo Tambellini\, Brandon Barr\, Jason Bernagozzi and LoVid\, with Laura McGough
DESCRIPTION:September 1 – October 14\, 2016\nOpening Reception: September 1\, 6-8 pm. Jason Bernagozzi to perform”Ritual for Hybrid Media” at 7:30 pm\n\n\n\nAnalog Futures brings together work by artists who explore the materiality of our media apparatus — the machines and electronic devices that deliver images and information to us. In Analog Futures\, television sets and computer black boxes\, cathode ray tubes and VHS videotape\, are transformed into sculptural objects\, repurposed and reanimated to reveal the internal electronics that power video monitors\, the visual glitches that underlie computer circuitry\, and the magnetic tape that mysteriously holds video imagery. \nThe exhibition links work by two generations of artists who investigate the potential of the media-apparatus-as-object. Throughout the 1960s\, pioneering video artist Aldo Tambellini created and exhibited “prepared televisions\,” in which the electronic circuitry of TV sets was altered to distort the broadcast image and convert it into swirling and vibrant abstract forms\, freeing it from already established televisual conventions. As we move more deeply into the twenty-first century\, a younger generation of artists is similarly transforming a range of media technologies. Artists Brandon Barr\, Jason Bernagozzi and LoVid resurrect half-forgotten and obsolete media creating a host of new meanings and contexts for these objects: the after-burn of a plasma television screen becomes a ghostly meditation on “dead media”; a pile of e-waste springs to life with glitchy abstractions; a newly constructed wobbulator winks at media history while gesturing towards an analog future. \n— Laura McGough \nAnalog Futures features work by pioneering media artist Aldo Tambellini\, Brandon Barr\, Jason Bernagozzi and LoVid and a new installation constructed by Wells College students with curator Laura McGough. \nLaura McGough is a media art historian\, curator\, and educator currently based in Buffalo\, NY. She has organized exhibitions\, screenings\, performances and streaming content for arts organizations in the U.S.\, Canada\, Europe\, and Australia. In 1997\, she co-founded the new media collective NOMADS and through this initiative organized a number of early Web-based art projects/exhibitions including Audiophfile\, a six-part sound art series\, and published MASSAGE\, an early multi-media Web-based journal. She received an MA in interdisciplinary studies from New York University and is completing a PhD in the Department of Media Study at the University of Buffalo. Her current research focuses on the live transmissions and the turn to liveness in contemporary visual and media arts. \nBrandon Barr is a mixed media artist and currently lives in Los Angeles\, CA. He received an MFA in Electronic Integrated Arts from Alfred University in Alfred\, NY and BFA in Interdisciplinary Arts at the Kansas City Art Institute. He has exhibited his work internationally including China\, Brazil and Portugal. Recently\, his work was featured in exhibits at the Torrance Art Museum and the San Diego Art Institute. \nJason Bernagozzi is a video\, sound and new media artist living and working in upstate New York and is the co-founder of the experimental media arts non-profit Signal Culture. His work has been featured nationally and internationally at venues such as the European Media Arts Festival in Osnabruk\, Germany\, the LOOP Video Art Festival in Barcelona\, Spain\, the Beyond/In Western NY Biennial in Buffalo\, NY\, and the Yan Gerber International Arts Festival in Hebei Province\, China. His work has received several awards including grants from the New York State Council for the Arts\, Wavefarm and the ARTS Council for the Southern Finger Lakes. \nLoVid is the NY based artist duo: Tali Hinkis and Kyle Lapidus. LoVid’s work includes immersive installations\, sculptural synthesizers\, single channel videos\, textile\, participatory projects\, mobile media cinema\, works on paper\, and A/V performance. Collaborating since 2001\, LoVid’s projects have been presented at SPRING/BREAK Art Show (NY)\, Daejeon Museum (Korea)\, Everson Museum (NY)\, Smack Mellon (NY)\, Mixed Greens Gallery (NY)\, CAM Raleigh (NC)\, Netherland Media Art Institute (Netherlands)\, The Science Gallery (Ireland)\, Real Art Ways (CT)\, Bloomfield Science Museum Jerusalem (Israel)\, Urbis\, (UK)\, The Jewish Museum (NY)\, The Neuberger Museum (NY)\, The New Museum (NY)\, and ICA (London)\, among many others. LoVid has performed and presented works at: Museum of Moving Image (NY)\, Lampo (Chicago)\, International Film Festival Rotterdam (Netherlands)\, MoMA (NY)\, PS1 (NY)\, The Kitchen (NY)\, CCA (Israel)\, and FACT (Liverpool). LoVid’s projects have received support from organizations including: The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation\, Signal Culture\, Cue Art Foundation\, Eyebeam\, Harvestworks\, Wave Farm\, Rhizome\, Franklin Furnace\, Turbulence.org\, New York Foundation for the Arts\, Lower Manhattan Cultural Center\, Experimental TV Center\, NY State Council of the Arts\, and Greenwall Foundation. LoVid’s video works are distributed through EAI. \nAldo Tambellini is an iconoclastic artist\, who was a formative figure in expanding art media in the early 1960s. He charted an independent path beginning with paintings then exploring new technologies– hand-painting slides (Lumagrams)\, films\, projections\, and video—integrating these new media into a new art form that synthesized visual art\, theater\, music and dance into visceral\, sensory\, multimedia installations. Critics and artists recognized Tambellini as an originator of new media art\, “Electromedia\,” as he coined it. He performed “Electromedia” events in the streets\, the churches\, and in the theaters of New York generating a sensation. By the end of the decade he established his own club\, “The Black Gate\,” in collaboration with Otto Piene\, advertised as the only club in New York City devoted to multimedia. An intermedia innovator Tambellini exerted a considerable influence on the succeeding generation of new media artists.
URL:https://arts.wells.edu/event/analog-futures/
LOCATION:String Room Gallery\, 170 Main St.\, Aurora\, NY\, 13026\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20160522
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SUMMARY:Senior Thesis Exhibition 2016
DESCRIPTION:May 9 – 21\, 2016\nOpening Reception: May 9\, 6-8 pm\n\n\n\n\nThe Wells College Art Department is proud to announce this year’s Senior Thesis Exhibition. The show features the culminating works by Wells’ senior Visual Art: Studio Art majors Alaina Kelahan\, Jasmine Milton\, Rebecca Rodas\, and Yakeima Simms. The public is invited to attend the opening reception in the String Room Gallery on Monday\, May 9th from 6-8pm where they will have the opportunity to meet and talk with the artists. As always\, light refreshments will be served. For those interested who cannot attend the opening\, the show will run through May 21st\, open by appointment. \nAlaina Kelahan (Cazenovia\, NY) has been working primarily in digital photography since the beginning of her college career. Her current work showcases her interest in small details and fine textures\, and is presented specifically to reflect her passion for macro photography. Inspired by a number of contemporary fine-art photographers\, she uses various food items to demonstrate the relationship between beauty and imperfection. \nJasmine Milton (Boston\, MA) is a multi-disciplinary artist. In her current work she uses dance and charcoal to create large-scale\, expressive works on paper. She works with dancers to choreograph responses to musical and emotional prompts\, leaving behind marks that capture the moment at which they feel most uninhibited. \nRebecca Rodas (Norwalk\, CT) has been fueled through the emotional and healing processes of art. Inspired by the Pattern and Decoration Movement she uses lace and embroidery to decorate latex paint as a way to embody her frustration about gender inequality in the art world. Rebecca will be attending the School of Visual Arts in the fall to obtain her master’s degree in art therapy and aid others in mental well being through art practices. \n Yakeima Simms (Brooklyn\, N.Y.) developed her passion for the arts after attending many youth art programs in NYC at institutions such as the Pratt Institute\, Brooklyn Museum\, and Parsons School of Design. In her current work\, she uses typography and flat black silhouettes of black men and women to focus on the importance of their beauty and strengths\, while her text reflects the struggles of black men and women overcoming the stigmas inflicted on them. Yakeima plans to pursue graduate studies in Curatorial Practices in the near future. \n Images of artwork by (left to right): Jasmine Milton\, Alaina Kelahan\, Yakeima Simms\, Rebecca Rodas
URL:https://arts.wells.edu/event/senior-thesis-exhibition-2016/
LOCATION:String Room Gallery\, 170 Main St.\, Aurora\, NY\, 13026\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20160408
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20160409
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SUMMARY:Practical Work: Jillian Bruschera\, Angela Davis Fegan\, Maggie Puckett\, and Maggie Pucket + Melissa Potter (Seeds InService)
DESCRIPTION:Practical Work takes as a starting point a selection of original printed materials produced by the American and British woman suffrage movements from the early twentieth century. These posters\, banners\, cartoons\, and periodicals demonstrate the pragmatic\, strategic nature of artistic production used to support the many positions taken by various groups advocating for women’s right to vote. British organizations such as the Artists’ Suffrage League and the Suffrage Atelier formed specifically to apply members’ considerable training and skill towards the production of a persuasive visual culture that defined and promoted the cause. In the US\, individual artists worked in tandem to direct their time and creative labor towards the cause\, often sharing a common language of colors\, symbols\, and strategies to create a national and trans-atlantic conversation. \nThe community-oriented creative energy demonstrated by the suffrage artists continues today\, as demonstrated by artist Jillian Bruschera. With her Mobile Mill project she has created a transportable\, fully-mobile hand-paper making mill that “is about making things\, and it is also about making things happen.” Bruschera creates artistic communities wherever she goes\, challenging assumptions about who makes things\, where\, and why. During her residency on the Wells campus\, Bruschera will work with students to create an installation made of handmade paper and student-generated text. This project\, titled “IF/SUPPOSE\,” responds to the language and mission established by suffragist visual culture\, suggesting the idealism and cooperation needed to bring about change. \nJoining Bruschera are artists Angela Davis Fegan\, Maggie Puckett\, and Maggie Pucket + Melissa Potter (Seeds InService). Each of these artists uses printed\, hand-made paper to support images\, text\, and social interaction that advocate for feminist causes. Whether recognizing the importance of women leaders\, as in Puckett’s Revolutionary Women\, engaging in eco-feminist paper activism (“Seeds InService”)\, or using the poster form to cross between art object and active\, functional protest tool (Angela Davis Fegan and Jillian Bruschera)\, this work continues the long-standing alliance between printed matter and collective political engagement. \n“Practical Work” is the result of invaluable assistance from The Howland Stone Store Museum and Wells College Archives at Louis Jefferson Long Library. Jillian Bruschera’s residency with the Wells College Book Arts Center is supported by the College’s Scholar In-Residence program.
URL:https://arts.wells.edu/event/practical-work/
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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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20160324
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20160429
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SUMMARY:Still: Jenna Rodriguez
DESCRIPTION:March 24 – April 28\, 2016\nReception with the Artist\, Thursday April 14 at 4:45pm – 6 pm\n\n\nThe exhibition Still centers around Rodriguez’s artist’s book by the same name. This hand-bound book commemorates the lives (both real and imagined) of nine of the many local animals she encountered who were killed by moving vehicles. The corresponding interdisciplinary exhibition is comprised of handmade paper\, screen prints\, embroidery\, stop-motion animation\, and installation. With wit and empathy\, Rodriguez creates larger-than-life characters inspired by each victim\, resulting in an immersive\, creative\, non-fiction narrative. \nBeginning in the summer of 2014 Rodriguez served as the Victor Hammer Fellow at Wells College\, where she taught papermaking\, printing\, and bookbinding. 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.  This exhibition marks the beginning of a new commitment by the String Room Gallery to stage solo exhibitions upon the culmination of each Victor Hammer Fellow’s residency. \nJenna Rodriguez is a collector\, observer\, and artist currently based in Chicago. She recently completed a residency at Columbia College Chicago during which she completed artwork for this exhibition.  Last summer she was the recipient of The Wingate Foundation Grant\, the Edwards Foundation Grant\, and the College Book Arts Association’s Project Assistant Grant\, which allowed her to attend a papermaking course at Penland School of Craft\, build a papermaking studio for Wells College\, and continue work on Still. She graduated from Columbia College Chicago in 2013 where she received a MFA in Interdisciplinary Book and Paper Arts. During this time she had a two-year print production fellowship for Journal of Artists Books (JAB) and taught letterpress printing classes at Columbia College and Spudnik Community Print Shop. Jenna received her BFA in 2009 in printmaking and photo media with a certification to teach K-12 art from Old Dominion University in Virginia where she grew up. \nImage: 54\, Letterpress Print (still shot of animation)\, 2016
URL:https://arts.wells.edu/event/still/
LOCATION:String Room Gallery\, 170 Main St.\, Aurora\, NY\, 13026\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20160204
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20160304
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SUMMARY:Annual Student Exhibition 2016
DESCRIPTION:The Wells College Visual Arts Department announces the opening of the 2016 Annual Student Exhibition in the school’s String Room Gallery. The public is cordially invited to celebrate the student artists’ work at a reception on Thursday\, February 4 from 6 to 8 p.m. The exhibition will be on view from February 4 through March 3\, 2016. \nWells’ Visual Arts Faculty organizes this annual exhibition\, selecting pieces from introductory to advanced courses in a range of disciplines. This year’s iteration includes work made in the new Wells College Book Arts Center paper-making studio\, as well as selections of letterpress printing\, handmade books\, photography\, ceramics\, drawing\, calligraphy\, and mixed-media work. Over 60 student artists are represented in this show. \nimage: Alexis Reinhold (’18)\, gelatin silver print\, 2015
URL:https://arts.wells.edu/event/annual-student-exhibition/
LOCATION:String Room Gallery\, 170 Main St.\, Aurora\, NY\, 13026\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20151106
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20151208
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SUMMARY:Make No Loud Noise: Pato Hebert
DESCRIPTION:November 6 – December 7\, 2015 \nMake No Loud Noise is a solo exhibition by artist\, educator\, and cultural worker Pato Hebert. Several central works anchor the show. “51 Synonyms for Oscillate” takes the form of a word search consisting of dozens of mirrored acrylic letters that contain multiple\, hidden variations on the experience of oscillating. In 2014\, Hebert began a series of performance-based photographs entitled “In\, If Not Always Of.” The mirrored Oscillator figure featured in this work appears in various landscapes\, often upending any strict distinction between self and context as the figure’s contours become indistinguishable from its surroundings. This series now consists of nearly 70 images\, seven of which are presented here together for the first time. A third large work features a large grid of photographs portraying the feet of delates attending the International AIDS Conference held in Melbourne\, Australia\, in 2014. Taken together\, these images demonstrate the sheer volume and flow of traffic\, while individually the photographs underscore the personality\, culture or purpose of specific delegates. In these and other works\, Hebert exhibits a sustained interest in the aesthetics\, ethics\, and poetics of interconnectedness. \nHebert is the third artist exhibited in the String Room Gallery to be supported by the college’s recently established Scholar In Residence program. During his time on campus\, he has worked with students to create two collaborative works\, one of which is included in this exhibition. Following his visit to campus and several workshops with students\, he will produce a site-responsive work to be installed in the Louis Jefferson Long Library in early December. \nHebert’s recent projects have been presented at Beton7 in Athens\, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb\, the Kunsthal Charlottenborg in Copenhagen\, and The Glass Studio at The Chrysler Museum in Norfolk. In July he was an artist-in-residence with the Neighborhood Time Exchange project in West Philadelphia. Hebert’s work has been supported by grants from the Rockefeller Foundation\, the Creative Work Fund\, the National Education Association and a Mid-Career Fellowship for Visual Artists from the California Community Foundation. In 2008 he received the Excellence in Photographic Teaching Award from Center in Santa Fe. He teaches as an Associate Arts Professor in the Art and Public Policy Department at Tisch School of the Arts\, New York University. He has also worked in community-based HIV prevention initiatives with queer communities of color since 1994. He continues this grassroots work through his current projects with the Global Forum on MSM & HIV (MSMGF)\, where he helps to develop innovative international approaches to community mobilization and advocacy. \nImage: The Oscillator in Tualitin Hills Nature Park\, from the ongoing series In\, If Not Quite Of. 2014.
URL:https://arts.wells.edu/event/make-no-loud-noise/
LOCATION:String Room Gallery\, 170 Main St.\, Aurora\, NY\, 13026\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts
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SUMMARY:Senior Thesis Exhibition 2015
DESCRIPTION:May 4 – 16\, 2015 \nThe Wells College Visual Arts Department is proud to announce the annual Senior Thesis Exhibition. The exhibition features the final work produced by the Department’s seven Studio Arts seniors and serves as the culmination of their course of study. \nRegina Agoruah (Atlanta\, GA) developed her love for photography after taking a film photography class at Wells. Her photographic work focuses on unique communities that deal with social\, cultural and political issues. She uses photography and video in her thesis work to document a historical tattoo shop from her hometown. Upon graduating she intends to travel to Shanghai and Tokyo to continue her arts education. \nTyler Bischoff (Allendale\, N.J.) has been practicing his discipline on the potter’s wheel and free hand sculpting since attending the Gow School in South Wales\, N.Y. He decorates his utilitarian ceramics in an abstract expressionist aesthetic to emphasize the performance of both making the vessels and underglazing his work. Tyler plans to renovate his family barn and open his own ceramic studio by the Fall of 2015. \nJohn Broughal (The Bronx\, N.Y.) developed his skills as a painter during his time at Wells College. He is experimenting with ideas of potential\, and views his work as an appreciation for traditional standards in painting made evident by giving abrupt examples of why these standards were made. \nShalisa Chang’s (Brooklyn\, N.Y.) love for art matured when she became involved with Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation. Shalisa was inspired by her study of film photography during her time abroad. In this work she brings attention to the strength of the female body through different photographic perspectives. Shalisa will be participating in the SHARP/Snug Harbor Artist Residency Program this August and September. \nMelissa Hendrickson (Oneonta\, N.Y.) uses acrylic paint on canvas to depict a series of animals interacting with objects as though they are human. Her paintings rely on a strict set of rules regulating how she constructs an image and utilize the same quick humor associated with techniques common to the Internet and Photoshop. Melissa juxtaposes that humor with the laborious process of painting to create a realistic yet altogether absurd image. \nAlex Torea (Aurora N.Y.) has focused his practice in aerial photography supported by wooden sculpture. His artwork is an installation piece including both mediums. His work expresses his love for flying and captures the fleeting moments that few can see from above. Alex plans to pursue a career in aviation and photography after graduation. \nHyla Waldron (Auburn\, N.Y.) is a multi-disciplinary artist. Over the past year her work has focused on relational aesthetics. Hyla creates environments that foster trust with the intention of inspiring adults to play. In addition to attending Wells full-time\, she lives in Auburn\, NY with her husband and four children.
URL:https://arts.wells.edu/event/senior-thesis-exhibition-2015/
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:20150319
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20150425
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SUMMARY:To The Waters and The Wild: Rita Leduc
DESCRIPTION:March 19 – April 24\, 2015 \nThe work comprising “To The Waters and the Wild” was created during Leduc’s frequent visits to the Wells College campus during the fall of 2014\, and finalized during a residency on campus made possible in part by funding from the College’s Scholar In Residence program. In a process she describes as “integrated painting\,” Leduc works on-site to create gestural brushstrokes on translucent substrates\, producing a visual collaboration between paint\, landscape\, and vantage point. She then records this encounter through photography and video. The resulting hybrid images cite the tradition of plein air landscape painting\, while underscoring the contingent confluence of space and perception in the moment of encountering the natural world. While an audience familiar with the Wells College landscape will inevitably seek to identify familiar sites in this work\, Leduc’s photographic depiction of painted gestures and slick reflections invites viewers to identify both with her process and her exploration of new environments. \nLeduc’s work has been featured in solo and group exhibitions in venues in New York City and surrounding areas\, most recently by Project 59 in Brooklyn\, and in a two-person\, multi-media exhibition entitled “I Like You Better Now” in Buffalo\, NY. Leduc earned her MFA from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University\, Post-Baccalaureate Certificate from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago\, and BA from the University of Pennsylvania. Leduc currently serves as Project Manager for No Longer Empty\, an organization dedicated to developing community-oriented exhibition programing in Brooklyn. \nImage: 09.30.14 Amphitheater (Wells)\, acrylic\, marker\, gaffer tape\, amphitheater lawn\, etc.\, dimensions variable\, 2014
URL:https://arts.wells.edu/event/to-the-waters-and-the-wild/
LOCATION:String Room Gallery\, 170 Main St.\, Aurora\, NY\, 13026\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20150129
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20150227
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SUMMARY:Annual Student Exhibition 2015
DESCRIPTION:  Opening reception on Thursday\, January 29 from 6 – 8 pm. The exhibition will be on view from January 29 — February 26.\n\n\n\nWells College Visual Arts Department is excited to present the 2015  Annual Exhibition of Student Work in the school’s String Room Gallery. The exhibition features notable pieces from introductory to advanced courses in a range of disciplines including book arts\, ceramics\, sculpture\, painting\, drawing\, and photography
URL:https://arts.wells.edu/event/annual-student-exhibition-2/
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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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20141023
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20141204
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SUMMARY:Primer For Well Water: Justin Randolph Thompson & Bradly Dever Treadaway
DESCRIPTION:October 23 – December 3\, 2014 \nJustin Randolph Thompson and Bradly Dever Treadaway have collaborated over the past 15 years through the mediums of photography\, installation\, video and performance. Their collaboration revolves around ideas of cultural clash\, generational divide\, social hierarchies\, the resonance of collective and personal identity and a legacy of spiritual ascension. Their upcoming String Room Gallery exhibition\, “Primer for Well Water\,” is an installation and performance that examines the social cleansing and eroding powers of water. Drawing its title from allusions to Robert P. T. Coffin’s celebration of American Culture in his “Primer for America” and from Gwendolyn Brooks’ poem “Primer for Blacks\,” the piece takes an interdisciplinary approach to collective and specifically documented identities from Afro American and Euro American inheritance. This exhibition will feature work from throughout their careers\, and will include works completed on site in collaboration with Wells College students. \nJustin Randolph Thompson is a sculptor and new media artist born in Peekskill\, NY. Living between Italy and the US since 2001\, he has exhibited internationally and participated in numerous residencies in the US and in Europe. His work explores the historic implications of triumph\, victory and ascension by re-contextualizing references from Roman antiquity and mending these with aspects of African-American culture both past and present. \nBradly Dever Treadaway is a Brooklyn based artist and teacher utilizing photography\, video\, film and installation to emphasize socially conscious themes and self-awareness. He works as both a Faculty member and the Digital Media Coordinator at the International Center of Photography in New York City. His work revolves around fleeting family histories visualized through domestic rituals and the loss of cultural tradition\, aspiring to reunite present and past through visual metaphor. \nThompson and Treadaway’s shared accolades include a Fulbright Fellowship and a Jerome Fellowship to Franconia Sculpture Park. The artists’ work can be found in the collections of the Brooklyn Public Library\, the Mobile Museum of Art and the Center for Photography at Woodstock.
URL:https://arts.wells.edu/event/primer-for-well-water/
LOCATION:String Room Gallery\, 170 Main St.\, Aurora\, NY\, 13026\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts
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