News from the Arts Center!

SCR applications are open! Join Artist Fern Apfel for a Master Class Email: [email protected] to register! Class Spotlight: Intro to Papercutting Volunteer with us! In the Galleries… Main Gallery: Jan 19, 2023- Feb 25, 2023 Opening Reception: Jan 27, 2023 during Troy Night Out Artist Talk: Feb 9, 2023 7-8pm Master Class 2/16/23 Fern Apfel…

Arts Center Updates!

What’s New at the Arts Center! Are you looking for a crafty way to kickstart your holidays? Check out these classes! Wood Carved Holiday Ornament December 3rd 2022 Enjoy this intro to woodcarving, all based on Tom Hindes’ 5 Minute Wizard design. We’ll learn safe and efficient carving methods to produce a hanging tree ornament…

New Events! New Exhibition!

Some Bodies Subject, Object, and Identity in Nursing, Medicine, and Art  Corinne Botz | Clarity Haynes | Oliver Herring | Kaisu Koski | Gracelee Lawrence Lisa Nilsson | Rosemary Meza-DesPlas | Sarah Sweeney | Armando Veve Some Bodies challenges viewers to think about human bodies as objects, the subjects they represent, and the clues about identity that are present or assumed. A dynamic dialogue among…

Everyone Is Falling in Love with “Frank Bowling”

The Boston Globe’s review of “Frank Bowling’s Americas” calls it a “pivotal show” with “glorious, color-drenched canvases” that pull you in. Now on view, the exhibition explores how the British Guiana–born artist paved new routes into abstraction between 1966 and 1975, when New York City was his primary place of residence. You can learn even…

Vagina Obscura Book Talk with author Rachel E. Gross

The Hoffman Lecture in Sociology and Social Policy: Vagina Obscura Book Talk with author Rachel E. Gross Monday, November 14  | 6PM EST Bush Memorial Auditorium, Troy campus In-Person Event and livestreamed via RSC YouTube channel A myth-busting voyage into the female body. A camera obscura reflects the world back, but dimmer and distorted. Similarly, science has long…

November Events at the Albany Institute

MARK YOUR CALENDARS November Events & Exhibitions Opening Soon:GORDON PARKS: I, TOO, AM AMERICANOVEMBER 12, 2022 – FEBRUARY 4, 2023 This exhibition of forty photographs is drawn from the exceptionally strong holdings of photographs by Gordon Parks (1912-2006) at the Ulrich Museum of Art at Wichita State University. The Kansas native is a twentieth century…