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.
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, October 14, 2023, 11am-4pm
University Art Museum
Fine Arts Building
The UAM will be open and welcomes students and the general public.
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.
Bilingual Community Tour
Wednesday, November 8, 6 - 8pm
University Art Museum
Fine Arts Building
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.
Making an Exhibition: A Libros/Arte Roundtable Discussion
Wednesday, November 29, 2023, 4:30pm
University Art Museum
Fine Arts Building
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.
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
Past:
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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
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
Well/Being Exhibition Tour with Robert Shane and Corinna Ripps Schaming
Saturday, October 16, 11 am
University Art Museum
Fine Arts Building
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
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
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-Risk, Now We Will Be Happy, and The Loss of All Lost Things. At-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
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.
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
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.
