April 24 – May 31 Art+Design BFA Exhibit FRI April 26 5-8pm Reception Opalka Gallery and the Visual and Performing Arts Department at Russell Sage College announce the 20th Annual BFA Exhibition. This annual showcase features work by seniors in the Russell Sage College Visual Arts BFA programs: Art + Extended Media, Interior + Spatial…
The 25th Annual High School Regional Juried Exhibition March 12 – April 13 Visual art, crucial in developing critical thinking skills and visual literacy, is essential to a well-rounded education. The annual High School Regional exhibition celebrates the importance of art by showcasing the best artwork from the New York Capital Region’s high school students. This…
Teaching Artist Showcase EXHIBITION DATESMarch 14th-April 28th OPENING DATEFriday, March 29th | Troy Night Out The Teaching Artist Showcase highlights the incredible talent of our dedicated teaching artists at the Arts Center. This exhibition aims to showcase the remarkable work created by our teaching staff outside the traditional classroom setting, providing a unique insight into…
January 22 – April 3, 2024 The artists in Body Maps explore the relationship between the body and the self. As they navigate personal geographies and histories, their bodies act as stand-ins for larger cultural experiences. The surfaces they explore—the picture plane, maps, skin, walls, floors, city streets—always contain multitudinous depth revealed through the traces of their…
Opalka Gallery is pleased to present Carl Sprague: Setting the Stage, a solo retrospective exhibition, on view January 23 through February 24. Carl Sprague’s remarkable career as a designer spans stage and screen. He has worked in the art departments of more than 40 films, which between them have a combined total of 35 Oscar nominations. Though he…
Mickalene Thomas to deliver seventh-annual Winter/Miller Lecture Acclaimed artist creates visual homages to Black women that subvert traditional notions of beauty, race, and gender Thursday, February 8, 6 pm SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY (January 18, 2024) — The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College announces the seventh-annual Winter/Miller Lecture, to be delivered…
Séance: Photographs by Shannon Taggart October 31 through December 9, 2023 For the past twenty years, American artist Shannon Taggart (born 1975) has documented Spiritualist practices and communities in the United States, England, and Europe. The resulting body of work, Séance, examines the relationship of Spiritualism to human celebrity, its connections to art, science, and technology,…
Visual Poetry: New Vistas Curated by Willie Marlowe, Joseph Mastroianni, and Bella Burnett Important Dates: Exhibition Open: November 13th – December 20th, 2023 Opening Reception: November 17th, 6pm-8pm Visual Poetry: Poetry in Performance: November 28th, 6pm-9pm Curated by Nancy Klepsch “Visual Poetry: New Vistas unites eight regional artists with 44 artists from around the world…
RECEPTION | Reflected Inspirations Saturday, September 9 4:30 PM – 6:30 pm “Join us for a special reception celebrating new exhibition, Reflected Inspirations, the nineteenth National Exhibition of the American Society of Marine Artists.The evening will feature the opportunity to meet with the exhibiting artists, including Capital Region resident, Len Tantillo. Beverages and hors d’oeuvres…
Sept. 1 – Oct. 14 To Be—Named To Be—Named is a multi-site, new media art exhibition focused on how names are created and used to shape, reshape, and sometimes mis-shape, our worlds and identities. The origins of To Be—Named lie in a partnership between the European Union funded CoLing project—a multi-national, multi-institutional program focused on minority languages, the OSUN-funded Experimental Humanities Collaborative…