2023 Art History Thesis Presentations!

harder hall 1 Saxon Drive, Alfred, NY, United States

Presenters: Art History majors Ronan Adams and Gabrielle Williamson Join your fellow students for the 2023 Art History Thesis Presentations! WHO: Art History Majors ~ Ronan Adams & Gabrielle Williamson WHEN: Tuesday, May 2, 2023 ~ 11:00a – 12:30p WHERE: 424 Harder Hall ~ Refreshments will be served! --- Gabrielle Williamson: Goya’s Black Paintings: The […]

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Patterson Library- Poetry in Painting with Katherine Galbraith

Patterson Library Octagon Gallery 40 south portage st.,, Westfield, NY, United States

Oil painting in the Pergola Garden under the canopy of gorgeous summer vines.  An art installation of the instructors work and students will be discussed in the stacks after the class is completed.

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Patterson Library- Poetry in Painting with Katherine Galbraith

Patterson Library Octagon Gallery 40 south portage st.,, Westfield, NY, United States

Oil painting in the Pergola Garden under the canopy of gorgeous summer vines.  An art installation of the instructors work and students will be discussed in the stacks after the class is completed.

Free

Patterson Library- Susan Simmons- Subtractive Painting

Patterson Library Octagon Gallery 40 south portage st.,, Westfield, NY, United States

Susan will lead her students through an exercise technique of Subtractive Painting gaining knowledge and understanding of this different experience on canvas with acrylics. An art installation of the instructors work and students will be discussed in the stacks after the class is completed.

Free

Patterson Library- Susan Simmons- Subtractive Painting

Patterson Library Octagon Gallery 40 south portage st.,, Westfield, NY, United States

Susan will lead her students through an exercise technique of Subtractive Painting gaining knowledge and understanding of this different experience on canvas with acrylics. An art installation of the instructors work and students will be discussed in the stacks after the class is completed.

Free

Dear Uncles: A Fredonia Soldier’s Civil War Letters

1891 Fredonia Opera House 9 Church St., Fredonia, NY, United States

“Dear Uncles” is the latest book from the author and retired history and theatre arts teacher Rick Barram.  In it, he tells one young man’s story from the beginning of the American Civil War, taken from letters sent home to family and friends, including correspondence written for his uncles’ local newspaper, The Fredonia Censor. The young man, […]

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An Evening with the Undertakers

1891 Fredonia Opera House 9 Church St., Fredonia, NY, United States

Dr. Catherine J. Ullman is an independent researcher with an avid interest in death, the dead, and death culture in medieval Europe, as well as 19th century and modern US. Her passion for these unusual subjects was sparked by growing up in one of the older homes of Fredonia and waiting for the school bus […]

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Visiting Artists& Scholars: Selva Aparicio: Sculpture and Dimensional Studies Randall Chair

Nevins Theater 1 Saxon Drive, Alfred, NY, United States

Visiting Artists & Scholars Speaker Series will be held once per month on the Third Thursday of the month at 4:30pm during the 2023-2024 Academic Year. The Theodore Randall Chair was established in 2007 to honor the legacy of artist and educator Theodore Randall, remembered as the architect of the School of Art and Design […]

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Patterson Library Sarah Brown-Millspaw, Beginner Screenprinting

Patterson Library Octagon Gallery 40 south portage st.,, Westfield, NY, United States

Sarah will lead her students through the steps of screenprinting through her personal examples and in process. Silkscreen printing is a process of printing various designs onto different kinds of substrates using a silkscreen mesh. The process includes design preparation, screen preparation, and the actual printing of the design onto the substrate. An art installation of […]

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Emily Cheng: Artist Talk

Nevins Theater 1 Saxon Drive, Alfred, NY, United States

Join us on September 25, 2023, from 2:30 PM to 3:30 PM at Nevins Theater, Alfred University, for a special artist talk by Emily Cheng. Renowned for her captivating large-scale paintings, Cheng's work is characterized by vibrant, circular compositions. She has received prestigious awards, including the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Fellowship and the National Endowment for the […]

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Gleanings from the Ellis-Rowley Home in Laona

1891 Fredonia Opera House 9 Church St., Fredonia, NY, United States

The former Ellis home on Route 60 just outside of Laona was a well-known and highly recognized landmark on the oft-traveled roadway.  Last owned by James Ellis  Rowley, the structure was razed following his death in 2022. But prior to the home’s demolition, Gail Pugh Dash, Pomfret Historian Todd Langworthy and several area historians were […]

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Cultural Politics of Biodiversity

Nevins Theater 1 Saxon Drive, Alfred, NY, United States

Cultural Politics of Biodiversity: Animal Life on Camera by Artists from Turkey A seminar broadcast into Nevins Theater, Powell Campus Center, Alfred University, in two panels, on October 19 at 4:30 pm artist and scholars joining us from as far as Turkey. Participants: Mehmet Ali Boran, Ali M. Demirel, Ayşe Erkmen, Deborah Hardt, Erkan Özgen, […]

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