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Public Programs

The Museum brings together artists, critics, writers, poets, and scholars to address key issues in contemporary art and culture through rigorous and provocative talks, conversations, debates, seminars, screenings, and readings in an informal setting.

Unless otherwise noted all events are free and open to the public.

The University Art Museum and the Performing Arts Center are located on the uptown campus of the University at Albany. 

 

 

Upcoming


Fall Preview Day

Saturday, November 2, 2024
Museum/CSS open 11am-4pm
University Art Museum
Fine Arts Building

The UAM will be open and welcomes prospective students, the campus community, and the general public. Visit the Collections Study Space in FA 121 to view our holdings.

Documentation of USAR

LIMINALITIES Reception

Wednesday, November 13, 4-5pm
Collections Study Space, Fine Arts 121
Free parking in the State Quad Student Parking Lot

Join us for an informal reception for LIMINALITIES curated by Jesse Asher Alsdorf, BA ’22, on view in the University Art Museum’s Collections Study Space.
 

Person in a sweater and jeans wrapped in a vacuum in front of plants and a domestic space

2024


 

In Conversation: James Casebere and Danny Goodwin

Tuesday, October 29, 2024, 4:30pm
University Art Museum
Fine Arts Building
Free parking in the State Quad Student Parking Lot

Artist James Casebere will be in conversation with artist and UAlbany Professor Danny Goodwin discussing their shared interest in constructed photography, as well as themes related to social control, power structures, and institutional mythologies in their respective work. For the last 30 years, James Casebere has been at the forefront of artists working with constructed photography, creating photographs of his table-sized models based on architectural, art historical, and cinematic sources. Goodwin’s work spanning over 20 years has explored the US intelligence community and related issues of surveillance, secrecy, and violence. Goodwin’s photography and videos are currently on view in Job Security: Voices and Views from the American Security Industry.

Supported by the University Auxiliary Services at Albany.

Image credit: James Casebere, School, 2024, image courtesy of the artist

Model of a brutalist building in front of grey skies and a reflective pool

Homecoming Weekend and Exhibition Tours

Friday, October 18 and Saturday, October 19, 2024
Museum/CSS open 11am-4pm, exhibition tours at 12pm
University Art Museum
Fine Arts Building

Join us during Homecoming Weekend to view our current exhibitions: Job Security: Voices and Views from the American Security Industry and Sky Hopinka: Dislocation Blues. Attend our exhibition tours led by exhibiting artist Danny Goodwin. Visit the Collections Study Space in FA 121 to view our holdings.

Three museum visitors looking at artwork

Great Dane Family Weekend

Friday, September 27 and Saturday, September 28, 2024
Museum/CSS open 11am-4pm
University Art Museum
Fine Arts Building

The UAM will be open and welcomes students and the general public. Visit the Collections Study Space in FA 121 to view our holdings.

Curator Robert Shane chatting with museum visitors

Exhibition Walkthrough with Danny Goodwin and Edward Schwarzschild

Saturday, September 21, 2024
Museum open 11am-4pm, exhibition walkthrough at 2pm
University Art Museum
Fine Arts Building
Free parking in the Collins Circle visitor lots

As part of the Albany Book Festival presented by the New York State Writers Institute, the UAM will be open 11am-4pm. Join us for an exhibition walkthrough at 2pm of Job Security: Voices and Views from the American Security Industry led by Danny Goodwin and Edward Schwarzschild. 

Images courtesy Patrick Dodson and Danny Goodwin

Headshots of Danny Goodwin and Edward Schwarzschild

Public Reception

Friday, September 13, 2024, 5-7 pm
University Art Museum
Fine Arts Building
Free parking in State Quad Student Parking Lot

Join us for a public reception for the exhibitions Job Security: Voices and Views from the American Security Industry and Sky Hopinka: Dislocation Blues. Light refreshments will be served.

Supported by the University Auxiliary Services at Albany.

Color photograph of a floodwater simulator

2024 Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition Reception

Friday, May 3, 5 – 7 pm
University Art Museum
Fine Arts Building
Free parking in the State Quad Student Parking Lot

Join us for a reception to celebrate the 2024 Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition. Light refreshments will be served.

Visitors in the museum

2024 M.A. Thesis Exhibition Reception

Friday, May 3, 5 – 7 pm
Gallery 223
Fine Arts Building, second floor
Free parking in the State Quad Student Parking Lot 

Join the Department of Art and Art History at Gallery 223 on the second floor of the Fine Arts Building, down the hall from the University Art Museum, to celebrate the 2024 M.A. Thesis Exhibition.

Visitors

UAlbany Student Showcase

Tuesday, April 30, 11 am – 4 pm
University Art Museum
Fine Arts Building

As part of UAlbany’s Showcase Day, the University Art Museum will present the 2024 Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition. The Department of Art and Art History will also have work on view in the Fine Arts Building. For more information, please visit: albany.edu/ualbany-showcase

UAlbany Showcase

Introphantasm Reception

Tuesday, March 26, 4-5pm
Collections Study Space, Fine Arts 121
Free parking in the State Quad Student Parking Lot

Join us for an informal reception for Introphantasm curated by Bella Burnett, M.F.A. '24, on view in the University Art Museum’s Collections Study Space.

Supported by University Auxiliary Services at Albany.

Bald head figure on a wavy geometric background

Talk by Glenn Adamson: Pattern Recognition: Barrow Parke in Context 

Tuesday, March 12, 2024, 2:00pm
University Art Museum
Fine Arts Building
Free parking in the State Quad Student Parking Lot

Join us as Glenn Adamson, curator, writer, and historian renowned for his scholarship on contemporary art, design, and craft, speaks on the exhibition Barrow Parke: Systems and Mythologies. Dr. Adamson is the author of Craft: An American History (2021, Bloomsbury), editor of the journal Material Intelligence, and Artistic Director for the Design Doha 2024 Biennial, Qatar. He has previously been Director of the Museum of Arts and Design, New York, and Head of Research at the V&A, London.

The event is free and open to the public. 

This event will be an exhibition walkthrough. Please contact UAM with questions about accessibility.

Supported by the Coby Foundation and University Auxiliary Services at Albany.

Photograph of Glenn Adamson

Artists Walkthrough and Catalogue Signing with Mark Barrow and Sarah Parke

Saturday, March 9, 2024, 2:00pm 
University Art Museum
Fine Arts Building
Free parking in the visitor lots off Collins Circle

Join us for an artists-led walkthrough of Barrow Parke: Systems and Mythologies, followed by a reception and a signing of the exhibition’s catalogue. 

The event is free and open to the public. The catalogue will be available for purchase. 

This event will be an exhibition walkthrough. Please contact UAM with questions about accessibility.

Supported by the Coby Foundation and University Auxiliary Services at Albany. 

Barrow Parke Studio Portrait

2023


 

Making an Exhibition: A Libros/Arte Roundtable Discussion

Thursday, November 30, 2023, 4:30pm
University Art Museum
Fine Arts Building
Free parking in the State Quad student parking lot

Meet members of the team who organized Libros/Arte as they share the lessons and fruits of the collaborative exhibition-making process. Faculty participants will also discuss their own scholarly work on issues surrounding handmade Latin American books, such as their production, history and role in contemporary activism, and preservation.

Libros/Arte installation view

The Creative Life: Susanna Hoffs

Thursday, November 9, 2023, at 7pm
UAlbany Performing Arts Center

Musician, songwriter (The Bangles), and author Susanna Hoffs in conversation with WAMC’s Joe Donahue.

Co-sponsored by New York State Writers Institute and UAlbany Performing Arts Center

Singer Susanna Hoffs in a suit jacket and pink shirt.

Evening Hours and Bilingual Community Tour

Wednesday, November 8, 2023
Museum Open: 6-8pm
Bilingual Community Tour: 6:30pm
University Art Museum
Fine Arts Building
Free parking in the State Quad student parking lot

A community exhibition tour of Libros/Arte: Books from Latin America and the Caribbean led by Libros/Arte collaborators that will be offered in both English and Spanish. 

UAM visitors

Homecoming Weekend and Exhibition Tours 

Friday, October 20 and Saturday, October 21, 2023, open 11am-4pm
Exhibition tours: 12pm on Friday, October 20 and Saturday, October 21
University Art Museum
Fine Arts Building

Join us during Homecoming Weekend to view our current exhibitions: Barrow Parke: Systems and Mythologies, Libros/Arte: Handmade Books from Latin America & the Caribbean, and Yelaine Rodriguez: EBBÓ. Attend our exhibition tours led by associate curator Robert R. Shane. Visit the Collections Study Space to view our holdings.

Yelaine Rodriguez fall

Fall Preview Day

Saturday, October 14, 2023, 11am-4pm
University Art Museum
Fine Arts Building

The UAM will be open and welcomes students and the general public.

BP Stained glass

Great Dane Family Weekend

Saturday, September 30, 11-4pm
University Art Museum
Fine Arts Building

The UAM will be open and welcomes students and the general public. Visit the Collections Study Space to view our holdings.

Robert Shane showing carteneras to students

Make a Cartonera Book with Paloma Celis Carbajal 

Friday, September 22, 1-3pm, register: https://cartonera-Friday.eventbrite.com 
University Art Museum
Fine Arts Building
Free parking in the State Quad student parking lot

Saturday, September 23, 1-3pm, register: https://cartonera-Saturday.eventbrite.com 
University Art Museum
Fine Arts Building
Free parking in the Collins Circle visitor lots

In this hands-on workshop, participants will make their own cartonera books—books with handmade covers constructed with recycled cardboard and other unexpected materials—while learning about the impact and cultural history of this book making practice in Latin American and the Caribbean. Paloma Celis Carbajal serves as the Curator for Latin American, Iberian and Latino Studies Collections at the New York Public Library. Previously, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison she founded and developed the most comprehensive cartonera book collection in the world and created the Cartonera Publishers Database. Also happening Saturday, September 23: the NYSWI Albany Book Festival https://www.albanybookfestival.com/.

Open to high school ages and up
Free, pre-registration required
Please register no later than 1 day prior to event
All materials and supplies included
Each session limited to 15 participants

Supported by the University Auxiliary Services at Albany and the Jack and Gertrude Horan Memorial Endowment Fund for Student Outreach.

Hands holding a handmade book

Artists’ Reception 

Friday, August 25, 5-7pm
University Art Museum
Fine Arts Building
Free parking in the State Quad student parking lot

Join us for a public Artists’ Reception celebrating the exhibitions Barrow Parke: Systems and Mythologies; Libros/Arte: Books from Latin America and the Caribbean; and Yelaine Rodriguez: EBBÓ. Light refreshments will be served.

Supported by the University Auxiliary Services at Albany.

Barrow Parke Artwork

2023 Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition Reception

Friday, May 5, 5 – 7 pm
University Art Museum
Fine Arts Building
Free parking in the State Quad Student Parking Lot

Join us for a reception to celebrate the 2023 Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition. Light refreshments will be served.

Visitors to the MFA 2022 reception

2023 M.A. Thesis Exhibition Reception

Friday, May 5, 5 – 7 pm
Gallery 223
Fine Arts Building, second floor
Free parking in the State Quad Student Parking Lot 

Join the Department of Art and Art History at Gallery 223 on the second floor of the Fine Arts Building, down the hall from the University Art Museum, to celebrate the 2023 M.A. Thesis Exhibition.

Visitors at the MFA 2022 museum reception

The Creative Life: Jane Curtin

Saturday, April 29, 2023, at 4pm
UAlbany Performing Arts Center

Emmy Award winning actress and comedian Jane Curtin in conversation with WAMC’s Joe Donahue.

Co-sponsored by New York State Writers Institute and UAlbany Performing Arts Center

Actress Jane Curtin smiling in front of a blue background

UAlbany Student Showcase

Thursday, April 27, 11 am – 4 pm
University Art Museum
Fine Arts Building

As part of UAlbany’s inaugural Showcase Day, the University Art Museum will present the 2023 Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition. The Department of Art and Art History will also have work on view in the Fine Arts Building and the Boor Sculpture Studio. For more information, please visit: albany.edu/ualbany-showcase

UAlbany Showcase

Panel Discussion and Film Screening

Saturday, April 1, 2023
The New York State Writers Institute’s Third Annual Albany Film Festival features the following events cosponsored by the University Art Museum.

For a complete listing of events: Albany Film Festival 2023.

Free and open to the public. No tickets required.

The University Art Museum will be open Saturday, April 1, 11am to 4pm


Panel discussion on video & filmmaking 
with Jeffrey Gibson, Sky Hopinka, and Rachel Martin

12:15 pm – 1:15 pm, Campus Center Assembly Hall

Jeffrey Gibson is a multidisciplinary artist and craftsperson who merges traditional Native American materials and forms with those of Western contemporary art to create a new hybrid visual vocabulary that has been described as “Indigenous Futurism.” Winner of a 2019 MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship, Gibson is a member of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians and of Cherokee descent. His pieces range from garments and sculptural objects to paintings and video, and often involve intricately detailed and technically demanding handwork using materials such as beads, metal jingles, fringe, and elk hide.

Artist Jeffrey Gibson

Sky Hopinka, winner of a 2022 MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship, is a filmmaker, video artist, and photographer developing new forms of cinema that center the perspectives of Indigenous people. A member of the Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin and a descendent of the Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians, Hopinka layers imagery, sound, and text to create short and feature-length films that explore both Indigenous histories and contemporary experiences. His work has been screened at the Sundance and Toronto International Film Festivals, and at the Whitney Museum of American Art, among numerous other festivals and venues.

Artist Sky Hopinka

Rachel Martin is a Tlingit artist of the Tsaagweidei, Killer Whale Clan, of the Yellow Cedar House ( Xaai Hit’) Eagle Moiety.  In her work, she focuses on themes of Indigenous sovereignty and tribal identity through images of traditional lifeways, matriarchal figures, landscapes and sea creatures with humorous undertones and layered symbolism. Some of her artworks delve into the harms wrought by colonization, while others consider connections between the human/animal/spirit worlds. Her work has been exhibited across North America, and is included in the permanent collection of the Forge Project, a Native-led initiative centered on Indigenous art, based in Taghkanic, NY.

Portrait of artist Rachel Martin

Film Screening
THE INHERITANCE

Director: Ephraim Asili, USA | 2020 | 1 hr 40 min
Screening and discussion with director Ephraim Asili
3:30 pm - 5:45 pm, Campus Center West Multi-Purpose Room

A young man inherits his grandmother's house and, with the encouragement of his girlfriend, turns it into a Black socialist collective where community forms the basis of family. 

Ephraim Aisli is the writer-director of THE INHERITANCE (2020), an astonishing ensemble work set almost entirely within a West Philadelphia house where a community of young, Black artists and activists form a socialist collective. The film is based on his own experiences as a former member of a Black liberationist group. Director of the Film and Electronic Arts Program at Bard College, and a 2021 Guggenheim Fellow, Asili was named as one of "25 New Faces of Independent Film" by Filmmaker magazine in 2020. In July 2022, he directed the Louis Vuitton Spring-Summer 2023 Men’s Fashion Show in Paris.

Filmmaker Ephraim Aisli

Accepted Student Open House and Exhibition Tours 

Saturday, March 25, 2023, open 11am-4pm
Exhibitions tour: March 25, 12pm 

Join us during Accepted Student Open House to view our current exhibitions: Near & Far: Six Photography Portfolios from the University at Albany Fine Art Collections and Carrie Mae Weems: Coming Up for Air. Visit the Collections Study Space to view more work from our collections. Attend our exhibition tour, led by curator Robert R. Shane.

Meet the museum team and learn about internship and work study opportunities!

All UAM events are free and open to the public. 
 

Young boy with lasso

Exhibitions Tour

Wednesday, February 22, 2023, open 11am-4pm
Exhibitions tour: February 22, 12pm 

Join us to view our current exhibitions: Near & Far: Six Photography Portfolios from the University at Albany Fine Art Collections and Carrie Mae Weems: Coming Up for Air. Attend our noon exhibition tour, led by curator Robert R. Shane.

All UAM events are free and open to the public.

Party scene

2022


 

Homecoming Weekend and Exhibition Tours

October 14 and 15, 2022, open 11am-4pm
Exhibition tours: October 14, 2022, 12pm and October 15, 2022, 12pm

Join us during Homecoming Weekend to view our current exhibitions: Sara Magenheimer: Dailies and Chryssa: Gates to Times Square. Visit the Collections Study Space to view our holdings. Attend our exhibition tours, led by curators Corinna Ripps Schaming and Robert Shane.

Vinyl installers

The Creative Life: Lucy Sante

Tuesday, October 18, 2022, 7pm
UAlbany Performing Arts Center

Art critic and essayist Lucy Sante in conversation with WAMC’s Joe Donahue.

Co-sponsored by New York State Writers Institute and UAlbany Performing Arts Center

Writer Lucy Sante

Family Weekend

Saturday, September 24, 2022, open 11am-4pm
University Art Museum

Fine Arts Building

Join us on Family Weekend to view our current exhibitions: Sara Magenheimer: Dailies and Chryssa: Gates to Times Square. Visit the Collections Study Space to view our holdings.

Installation of Sara Magenheimer No Clock 2017 on 6 flatscreens

Artist Walkthrough with Sara Magenheimer

Friday, September 16, 2022, 4:30 – 5:30pm
University Art Museum

Fine Arts Building
Free parking in the State Quad Student Parking Lot

Join us for an informal artist-led walkthrough of Sara Magenheimer: Dailies. Reception to follow. Beige Pursuit (Wendy’s Subway, 2019) by Sara Magenheimer will be available for sale during the walkthrough.

Supported by the University Auxiliary Services at Albany.

Artist Sara Magenheimer holding a small frog

Artists’ Reception

Friday, September 16, 2022, 5:30 – 7pm
University Art Museum
Fine Arts Building
Free parking in the State Quad Student Parking Lot

Join us for an artists' reception to celebrate the University Art Museum's current exhibitions: Sara Magenheimer: Dailies and Chryssa: Gates to Times Square. Grab-and-go refreshments will be served. Beige Pursuit (Wendy’s Subway, 2019) by Sara Magenheimer will be available for sale during the reception.

Supported by the University Auxiliary Services at Albany.

Artist Sara Magenheimer

2022 Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition Reception

Friday, May 6, 5 – 7 pm
University Art Museum
Fine Arts Building
Free parking in the State Quad Student Parking Lot 

Join us for a reception to celebrate the 2022 Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition. Grab-and-go refreshments will be served.

Visitors in the museum space

2022 MA Thesis Exhibition Reception

Friday, May 6, 5 – 7 pm
Gallery 223
Fine Arts Building, second floor
Free parking in the State Quad Student Parking Lot 

Join the Department of Art and Art History at Gallery 223 on the second floor of the Fine Arts Building, down the hall from the University Art Museum, to celebrate the 2022 MA Thesis Exhibition.

MFA visitors

Students Speak

Saturday, March 26, 2pm 
University Art Museum
Fine Arts Building

UAlbany students are invited to participate in this open, student-led dialogue hosted by the Office of Intercultural Student Engagement and the University Art Museum. The discussion will center on the University Art Museum’s current exhibitions.

Supported by the Jack and Gertrude Horan Memorial Endowment Fund for Student Outreach.

Student working on a laptop sitting on a plywood sculpture

Artist Talk with Gracelee Lawrence

Thursday, March 24, 4:30pm

University Art Museum
Fine Arts Building

Free parking in the State Quad Student Parking Lot 

Exhibiting artist and UAlbany Assistant Visiting Professor of Sculpture, Gracelee Lawrence discusses her 3-D sculptures on view in Fruit Soup: Contemporary Vanitas with Audrey Flack and Gracelee Lawrence. Focusing on ways in which bodies are both gendered and metaphorically fragmented in terms of capitalist-driven material desires, physical sustenance, and the digital spaces we inhabit, Lawrence shares her explorations of the mental space between digital and physical reality.

Artist Gracelee Lawrence

In Conversation: Ronny Quevedo and Johana Londoño

Tuesday, March 8, 4:30pm

University Art Museum
Fine Arts Building

Free parking in the State Quad Student Parking Lot 

Exhibiting artist Ronny Quevedo delves into topics of art and socio-political issues of migration, Indigenous architecture, and communal spaces with Johana Londoño, Associate Professor and Director of Latin American, Caribbean & U.S. Latino Studies Graduate Studies at UAlbany. Professor Londoño is the author of Abstract Barrios: The Crises of Latinx Visibility in Cities.

In Conversation: Ronny Quevedo and Johana Londoño

Artists’ Reception

Thursday, March 3, 5:30 – 7pm
University Art Museum
Fine Arts Building

Free parking in the State Quad Student Parking Lot 

Join us for an artists' reception to celebrate the University Art Museum's current exhibitions: Ronny Quevedo: offside, Rodrigo Valenzuela: Video Works, and Fruit Soup: Contemporary Vanitas by Audrey Flack and Gracelee Lawrence. Grab-and-go refreshments will be served.

Supported by the University Auxiliary Services at Albany.

Art museum with red and blue vinyl applied to the walls

In Conversation: Ronny Quevedo and Rodrigo Valenzuela

Thursday, March 3, 4:30 – 5:30pm
University Art Museum
Fine Arts Building

Free parking in the State Quad Student Parking Lot 

Join us for a conversation with exhibiting artists Ronny Quevedo and Rodrigo Valenzuela, moderated by art historian, critic, and University Art Museum curatorial consultant, Dr. Robert R. Shane.

Artists Ronny Quevedo and Rodrigo Valenzuela

2021


 

Concert by The Knights

Monday, December 6, 6pm
University Art Museum
Fine Arts Building

In December 2021, Emily Daggett Smith will perform at the University Art Museum with members of The Knights, a New York-based collective of “adventurous musicians dedicated to transforming the orchestral experience and eliminating barriers between audience and music.” 

Andrea Casarrubios: Amid a Place of Stone for solo violin (2020)
Reena Esmail: Nadiya for flute and cello (2016)
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Quintet in F-sharp minor for clarinet and strings, Op. 10 (clarinet, 2 violins, viola, cello)
Gabrielle Herbst: New Commission (2021)

RSVP required: https://uam-knights.eventbrite.com

Co-sponsored by the UAlbany Performing Arts Center.

Free parking in the State Quad Student Parking Lot

Ensemble of musicians holding their instruments

Odessa Straub: Care and Feeding of Artworks

University Art Museum
Fine Arts Building

Periodically during the course of Well/Being: An Exhibition on Healing and Repair, artist Odessa Straub will be on-site for the care and feeding of her artworks.
 

Odessa Straub: Care and Feeding of Artworks

Glendalys Medina: Evolving Color Studies Series

University Art Museum
Fine Arts Building

During the Covid-19 crisis, a ritual of daily drawing became a source of solace and productivity for Glendalys Medina. Well/Being will open with seven drawings from Medina’s Color Studies series. Depending on when viewers visit the work, they may see a varying number of golden rectangles on the wall. These mark where a new drawing will be added by the artist once every two weeks for the duration of the exhibition, underscoring the temporal and ritualistic aspects of this art-making practice.  
 

Abstract shapes on colored paper

The Tip of the Tongue: Performance by Kris Seto

Thursday, December 2, 7pm
University Art Museum
Fine Arts Building

Created in dialogue with visual artist Michelle Young Lee and her neon work “I am the Signal; You Are the Wave”, The Tip of the Tongue is a collaborative dance piece by movement artist Kris Seto that excavates the invisible forces and walls of assimilation we traverse. Part memoir, part movement monument to those who have come before us, it is an unearthing of the unseen, the buried—the physicalization of the ineffable.

RSVP required: https://setoperformance.eventbrite.com

Kris Seto – Creative Director/Performer
Michelle Young Lee – Producer/Performer
Jayson P. Smith – Creative and Movement Consultant
OHYUNG – Composer and Sound Designer
Devon Hong – Costumes
Joseph Imhauser – Voiceover

Co-sponsored by the UAlbany Performing Arts Center. Supported by NYS DanceForce, a partnership program of the New York State Council on the Arts.

Free parking in the State Quad Student Parking Lot

Dancer in front of neon sign

Emily Daggett Smith: Solo Violin Concerts

Monday, November 22, 12 pm
University Art Museum
Fine Arts Building

During the course of Well/Being: An Exhibition on Healing and Repair, Emily Daggett Smith will perform a series of informal solo violin concerts. Audience members will be free to explore the exhibition or listen from socially distanced seats.

Smith will premiere a commissioned solo violin piece entitled Amid a Place of Stone. Composed by Andrea Casarrubios, the piece is a reflection on time spent in isolation at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. In the composer’s words: “This work, conceived during the 2020 pandemic and the ensuing crisis in the performing arts, combines nocturne and passacaglia elements, and traverses a range of phases within the subjects of isolation, vulnerability, and survival.” In addition, Smith will perform Jessie Montgomery’s Rhapsody No. 1 (2014), Kaija Saariaho’s Nocturne (1995), and Johann Sebastian Bach’s Ciaccona from the Partita No. 2 in D minor (1718–20).

Co-sponsored by the UAlbany Performing Arts Center.

Woman in red dress playing violin

Movement Workshops with Kris Seto

Movement artist Kris Seto will engage with UAlbany students, faculty, and staff through a series of movement workshops. As part of their two-day residency, Seto will also present a work-in-progress performance and Q&A session. All events will take place in the University Art Museum in the Fine Arts Building.

 

Museum Meditations with Kris Seto
Tuesday, November 16, 2 – 3pm
Wednesday, November 17, 12 - 1pm
Join movement artist Kris Seto on a gentle guided meditation through the first floor of the University Art Museum. “Sight and thought are often over-privileged in our society, but we see and sense with so much more.” Slow down your inputs and nervous systems in search of an expanded sense of time, body, presence, and awareness. Then, through movement, improvisation, and imagination prompts, participants will traverse the space and artwork finding agency, fluidity, and curiosity along the way.
All bodies and abilities welcome.

 

New Asian Futures: A diasporic dance + dialogue workshop
Tuesday, November 16, 6 – 7pm
“As Asian + Pacific Islander folx, it can feel like we are navigating many different worlds, cultures, and forces all at once. How must we move through our systems of hierarchy? And what do these expectations feel like in the body?” Join artist Kris Seto for a movement workshop that seeks to unearth embodiment, expand capacities, and deepen our sense of belonging. By tuning inwards, we tune in to new futures and how we want to move through the world.
The artist asks that this session center AAPI and mixed-race participants. All abilities are welcome. 
Registration for New Asian Futures: A diasporic dance + dialogue workshop preferred, but not required: https://uam-krisseto.eventbrite.com

 

Work-In-Progress Performance and Q&A Session with Kris Seto
Wednesday, November 17, 3 – 3:55pm
Movement artist Kris Seto will present an in-progress performance with a Q&A session in advance of their performance at the University Art Museum on December 2, 2021.

Co-sponsored by the UAlbany Performing Arts Center. Supported by the New York State DanceForce.

Image courtesy Vivian Babuts Photography

Dancer Kris Seto in a leotard

Students Speak

Saturday, November 13, 2pm

University Art Museum
Fine Arts Building

UAlbany students are invited to participate in this open, student-led dialogue hosted by the Office of Intercultural Student Engagement and the University Art Museum. 

The discussion will be centered around the exhibition on view, and will be led by Sydney Pennington ’23, UAM Social Media and Marketing Intern; Dominique Ennis ’21, UAM Department of Art and Art History Undergraduate Intern; and Jaci Yong ’24, Intercultural Specialist for Asian Heritage, Multicultural Resource Center.

Installation view of the exhibition Well/Being

Well/Being: An Exhibition on Healing and Repair Artists’ Reception

Friday, November 5, 2021, 5 – 7pm
University Art Museum
Fine Arts Building

Free parking in the State Quad Student Parking Lot

Well/Being: An Exhibition on Healing and Repair

The Creative Life: Debbie Millman and Roxane Gay

Tuesday, November 2, 7 pm 
UAlbany Performing Arts Center

Designer/UAlbany alum Debbie Millman and author/social commentator Roxane Gay in conversation with WAMC’s Joe Donahue.

Co-sponsored by New York State Writers Institute and UAlbany Performing Arts Center
 

Debbie Millman and Roxane Gay

Well/Being Exhibition Tour with Robert Shane and Corinna Ripps Schaming

Saturday, October 16, 11 am

University Art Museum
Fine Arts Building

Neon Installation

The Creative Life: Ruth Reichl

Tuesday, October 5, 7 pm
UAlbany Performing Arts Center

Chef, food writer, and culinary editor Ruth Reichl in conversation with WAMC’s Joe Donahue.

Co-sponsored by New York State Writers Institute and UAlbany Performing Arts Center
 

Ruth Reichl smiling

Artist to Artist: Addressing This Moment

This virtual series brings together artists who have presented work at the University at Albany in the past. The informal conversations combine powerful voices and compelling artistic practices that speak to current challenges that we face; this moment of the coronavirus pandemic, a reckoning on systemic racism, and civil unrest.

Co-sponsored with NYS Writers Institute and UAlbany Performing Arts Center

More info...

Artist to Artist: Addressing This Moment

JOIN US FOR A SPECIAL VIRTUAL LITERARY EVENT CO-HOSTED BY UALBANY ENGLISH & RPI'S COMMUNICATION AND MEDIA 

WRITING GRIEF, WRITING GROWTH: AUTHORS SPEAK ON CREATIVITY DURING DIFFICULT TIMES 

April 7, 2021, 4 - 6 pm 

Amina Gautier is the author of three short story collections: At-RiskNow We Will Be Happy, and The Loss of All Lost ThingsAt-Risk was awarded the Flannery O'Connor Award; Now We Will Be Happy was awarded the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction; For her body of work she has received the PEN/MALAMUD Award for Excellence in the Short Story. 

Molly Mccully Brown is the author of the essay collection Places I've Taken my Body and the poetry collection The Virginia State Colony For Epileptics and Feebleminded, which was named a New York Times Critics Top Book of 2017. 

Susan Nguyen's debut poetry collection, Dear Diaspora, won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry and will be published by the University of Nebraska Press in fall 2021. 

Support is provided by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Images courtesy of the authors

Writing Grief

Wikipedia Edit-a-thon: Art + Feminism 2021

Virtual via Zoom
Monday, March 29, 2021, 2:30 – 4:30 p.m.

Join us to make contributions to Wikipedia that directly relate to the University at Albany Fine Art Collections and the University Art Museum’s current and past exhibitions. Co-sponsored by the Information Literacy Department of the University Libraries.

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Wikipedia Edit-a-thon — Art + Feminism 2021

Students Speak

A collaborative student-led virtual series hosted by the Office of Intercultural Student Engagement and the University Art Museum. The conversations will be led by UAM Milton & Sally Avery Arts Foundation Intern Sydney Pennington ’23 and MRC Intercultural Specialist Aya Nakhlawi ’21. UAlbany students will be able to participate in this open dialogue through Zoom.

Identity and Idealism
Thursday, February 18 at 7pm

Activism on Campus
Thursday, March 11 at 7pm

Students Speak - A Dialogue about Art, Activism and Museums as Social Space

Wellness Wednesday

Wednesday, March 3, 10am-5pm

Unwind. Reflect. Connect. Take some time off to view Torch ’72/2020 and i.de.al.is.tic in-person at the University Art Museum!

UAlbany students, faculty, and staff are invited to join us on Wellness Wednesday during our extended hours. View instructions on scheduling a visit here. If you are unable to pre-register, walk-ins without reservation will be accepted as visitor capacity allows.

Wellness Wednesday Unwind. Reflect. Connect.