Department News
Sculpture Professor Gracelee Lawrence's Work Featured in Postmasters' Gallery Art Dubai Digital 2022
Art and Art History Sculpture professor Gracelee Lawrence has featured work in Postmasters' Gallery Blockchain Art Dubai Digital 2022. PostmastersBLOCKCHAIN is the blockchain extension of Postmasters, a contemporary art gallery since 1984. It specializes in custom produced, all on blockchain, rights-enabled, innovative, digital and physical NFTS. They bring contemporary and historical digital works to the crypto ecosystem.
A Transformative Artistic Experience Visits the PAC Tonight
Exploring the nature of sight and blindness, light and dark, and what it means to truly see, Blind Visionaries, a production combining the talents of the Seeing with Photography Collective and the Daniel Kelly jazz trio, takes the Performing Arts Center stage tonight at 7:30.
Three Exhibitions Open Spring Season at University Art Museum
Ronny Quevedo’s “offside” opens in the main gallery, while Rodrigo Valenzuela’s “Video Works” is on view in the Nancy Hyatt Liddle Gallery, and “Fruit Soup: Contemporary Vanitas by Audrey Flack and Gracelee Lawrence” is in the Collections Study Gallery.
Associate Professor Amy R. Bloch Receives Publication Honor
"The Art of Sculpture in Fifteenth-Century Italy," co-edited by Art and Art History Professor Amy Bloch and Daniel M. Zolli, published in 2020 by Cambridge University Press, has been named an Outstanding Book of the Year by "Choice."
Art History BA Grad Acacia Mei Makes Waves in the London Art World
Acacia Mei, University at Albany Art History BA ’17, recently took a two week hiatus from running their London based Fin-tech startup to spearhead some art world and blockchain alchemy. On September 17, 2021 at the start of London Fashion Week, the NFT Brave New World (by Warren Du Preez and Nick Thornton Jones feat. Kai-Isaiah Jamal) made history when a still from the moving image was featured in print publication on the cover of the Evening Standard Magazine. Acacia minted the NFT on behalf of the artists, along with initiating and securing the PR association between Phillips and ES Magazine, the Annka Kultys Gallery, and Foundation.app.
Film Studies, Art students Win Best Overall Student Short Film at the Albany Film Festival
The Best Overall Student Short Film Award at the Albany Film Festival goes to “Building a Stage,” directed by three young filmmakers with connections to UAlbany: 2021 graduate Sydnie Heslop (Interdisciplinary Studies major in Film and Performance), 2020 graduate Emily Panganiban (Art major with a Film Studies minor), and PhD candidate Jeff Aldrich (History). They will receive $300 cash award. View the film: https://youtu.be/GSRhVPqmxak.
Faculty Artist Wins the Guggenheim Fellowship
Melissa Thorne, "a rare artist indeed” from the Department of Art & Art History, is named a recipient of one of a 2021 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship.
Kianja Strobert stages exhibition at ArtOMI's Newmark Gallery
Art and Art History Painting Instructor Kianja Strobert is staging a one-person exhibition Kianja Strobert: when is brunch? at ArtOMI's Newmark Gallery in Ghent, NY, March 20-May 16, 2021. ArtOMI's Newmark gallery will be open to the public for the duration of this exhibition. Read the full press release at ArtOMI.org.