Union College Department of Visual Arts

*DEADLINE EXTENDED!* Submit your portfolio through This Wednesday! See details below.

In memory of artist and founder of Union College’s Visual Arts Department, the Arnold Bittleman Memorial Prize honors a student who “has studied drawing in the Visual Arts department and whose work, in the judgment of an outside juror, is outstanding.”

The recipient of the Arnold Bittleman Memorial Prize is honored with a cash prize on Prize Day and a solo exhibition in the Wold Student Gallery.

Submissions due:
Wednesday, March 20, 2025 by 5pm
- Submit 5-10 digital images of artwork that includes evidence of “drawing.” Drawing, painting, printmaking or mixed media work will be considered.

Portfolio submission:
- All work should be submitted via Google Drive.
- Title a new folder: Bittleman25_your full name_class year
- Title each image: your full name_year created_medium_dimensions (ie: Jane Doe_2023 oiloncanvas_10x20in)
- Share the folder with Professor Nemett, [email protected].

Thank you for so generously sharing your work and process with us all yesterday, and for treating our VA students and faculty to such a fun and inspiring print workshop! Thank you to our Printmaking Professor Allison Conley for facilitating this!

**Check out Karen’s work in All That is Gathered, curated by Allison Conley, on view in our Crowell & West Galleries through March 14th!

“All That is Gathered” opened last week in our Crowell and West Galleries. Curated by Allison Conley, Professor of Printmaking and Drawing, All that is Gathered features three artists whose printmaking practice fundamentally informs their work, permeating sculpture, painting, installation and craft. Unbeholden to tradition, their formally developed methods expand with every iteration.

Golnar Adili uses image transfer techniques to meld personal archives with the present. Kristina Bivona disrupts the sanctity of galleries to vignette the lives of s*x workers and incarcerated people. Karen Lederer marries the gestural marks of painting with the graphic quality of monoprints.

All that is Gathered looks at the wake created from life moving forward, picking up and putting down, and the evidence of joy, pain, and resilience. The reverberation of experience passing into the present is a source of sustenance for these artists. While they examine their lives using the tools they carry, we are called to reflect on our own journey. How do we find nourishment through the guardianship of our life experiences? What responsibilities do we owe to what we have gathered? And how can our position be used to learn, to share, to understand?

On view through March 14th in the Feigenbaum Center for Visual Arts. Open to the public M-F 9:00am - 5:00pm. Open on weekends by appt. or by calling Union Campus Safety (number on door).

TODAY’s THE DAY! Make sure to vote or bring your mail-in ballot IN PERSON to your polling place TODAY if you forgot to mail it in. Polls in NY close at 9pm!
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Professor Stern’s Photo 1 class visits Union’s Special Collections to look at examples of photography from across photo history, from daguerreotypes to 35mm campus photographs from the 1970s.

Don’t miss the artist talk and opening reception tonight for “Matthew Leifheit: Gay Archive”! Join us for Matthew’s talk at 12:50pm in VART204 and Opening Reception in the Crowell & West Galleries 4:30-6:30! Thursday, October 3rd. More info and virtual gallery tour at link in bio!

Join us THIS FRIDAY, May 17th, 4:30-6:30pm for the opening reception of FRAGMENTS, the 2024 Senior Exhibition!

Fragments features the brand new thesis work of Iris Phenix, Andy Mullen, Sam Crowley, Chris Delances, Isabel Pacchiana, and Ysabel Thompson. On view in the Crowell & West Galleries through June 16th!

Last night’s opening in the Crowell and West Galleries at college! ….and I forgot to take a pic of the flowers 🌺 and 🍱 food. David Henry Nobody didn’t disappoint either. Somothin’ Else: William Fillmore, David Henri Nobody & Steve Selley. Curated by our own Fernando Orellana. ON VIEW till 3//29//24

Visual Arts alum Natalie Berg-Pappert’s painting spotted in downtown Schenectady!

AI will never stop creativity because it can not produce anything original unless you teach it too…but my money is on the human touch!

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