November 30, 2016 — Comments are off for this post.
Lewis Carroll’s unflappable young heroine takes a tumble down an enchanted rabbit hole to an off-kilter world of mock turtles, dancing flora, punctual rabbits, and mad tea parties. Whimsy and wordplay are the order of the day in this imaginative musical adaptation of a family favorite.
Sage animation students will be designing custom animations to be projected as a set component of this fall’s production of Alice in Wonderland.
November 15, 2016 — Comments are off for this post.
On Tuesday, November 15th from 7-9pm, Emerge will be held at Sage College of Albany in Opalka Gallery. Emerge is an event tailored to graphic designers coming into the industry with 0-5 years experience, and is designed to help new designers hone their skills, discover their talents, and grow their careers. Five emerging designers have been asked to share their thoughts and insights on employment, leadership, entrepreneurship, growth, and life skills. This event will be a great introduction for students interested in studying design in college.
November 1, 2016 — Comments are off for this post.
Co-sponsored by the Department of Art + Design and Opalka Gallery, artist Angela Washko will be visiting on Tuesday, November 1st at 6:30pm as a speaker for the Fall 2016 Artist Lecture Series at Sage College of Albany.
Angela Washko is an artist, writer and facilitator devoted to creating new forums for discussions of feminism in the spaces most hostile toward it. She is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon University. In 2012, Washko founded The Council on Gender Sensitivity and Behavioral Awareness in World of Warcraftas an ongoing intervention inside the most popular MMORPG of all time. A recent recipient of a Franklin Furnace Performance Fund Grant, a Frank-Ratchye Fund for Art at the Frontier Grant, and a Rhizome Internet Art Microgrant, Washko’s practice has been highlighted in Art in America, Frieze Magazine, Time Magazine, The Guardian (UK), ArtForum, ARTnews, The Hairpin, VICE, Hyperallergic, Rhizome, the New York Times, The Creator’s Project, and more. Her projects have been presented nationally and internationally at venues including Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art (Helsinki, Finland), Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, the Milan Design Triennale, Moving Image Art Fair (London and NYC), the Rotterdam International Film Festival, The Shenzhen Independent Animation Biennial (Shenzhen, China), Transmediale (Berlin, Germany) and Institute for Contemporary Art Boston. Her writing has been published in Creative Time Reports, FIELD Journal of Socially Engaged Art Criticism, Copenhagen University Peer Reviewed Journal (NTIK), Neural Magazine, VASA Journal of Images and Culture, .dpi Feminist Magazine of Art and Digital Culture, Hyperallergic, ANIMAL NY and more. For more: angelawashko.com
October 30, 2016 — Comments are off for this post.
Fire Event will be a celebration of the centuries old tradition and ritual burning of spiritual effigies on the night before Halloween. As a component of The Sage Colleges Art + Extended Media’s new curriculum, the students in the 3D Topics course in Destruction will be constructing wooden sculptures to be burned in a ceremony meant to cleanse the past and shed warmth and light on the future. This event will serve as both an enlightening act of creative public expression and as an opportunity for an expansion of public fire safety and awareness.
October 7, 2016 — Comments are off for this post.
Friday, October 7th, 6 - 8 p.m.
The Opalka Gallery
Melody Davis, Ph.D., assistant professor of art history at The Sage Colleges, will demonstrate historical stereoscopes and answers questions about 3D photography. Visitors will be invited to handle the stereoscopes and stereographs, transporting themselves back to turn-of-the-century America. Davis will sign copies of her book from the University of New Hampshire Press, Women's Views: Narrative Stereograph in Nineteenth-Century America.
October 6, 2016 — Comments are off for this post.
In the art world, as in the rest of the world, women have yet to achieve parity. More art by men is collected by museums and shown in galleries, even as more women graduate with fine arts degrees every year. Why does the imbalance persist and what can be done about it? A panel of women—artists, curators, administrators and writers—assemble to discuss the current and future status of women in art.
September 5, 2016 — Comments are off for this post.
Opalka Gallery exhibiting artist Siona Benjamin’s work reflects her transition between worlds as she attempts to create a dialogue between the ancient and the modern. The recipient of two Fulbright Fellowships, she holds MFA degrees in painting and theater set design. She has been featured in The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, Art in America and has exhibited widely.
For more: www.artsiona.com
Artist Lecture: Thursday, September 8th, 5 p.m. at the Opalka Gallery
Opening Reception: Thursday, September 8th, immediately following artist lecture
Artist Workshop with Art + Design Students: Friday, September 9th, Art + Design Building
Exhibition: August 23 - October 9, 2016
September 2, 2016 — Comments are off for this post.
A Little Gallery exhibition featuring poems by Melody Davis and prints by Harold Lohner.
Melody Davis, Ph.D, assistant professor of art history at The Sage Colleges, is the author of two books of poetry as well as the recently published Women's Views: The Narrative Stereograph in Nineteenth-Century America.
Harold Lohner, emeritus professor of art, is a printmaker and font designer.
The exhibition is on view at the Little Gallery in Rathbone Hall through October 15th.
May 6, 2016 — Comments are off for this post.
Spring Ahead is our annual juried student show. Join us for the opening reception on Friday, May 6th from 5:00 -8:00pm in the Little Gallery. Awards will be presented at 7:00pm. Thank you to this year's juror, Chelsea Weber.
May 3, 2016 — Comments are off for this post.
Co-sponsored by the Department of Art + Design and Opalka Gallery, artist Adam Frelin and architect Barbara Nelson will discuss their collaborative project on Tuesday, May 3rd at 6:30pm to wrap up the 2015-16 Artist Lecture Series at Sage College of Albany.
Last year, Frelin and Nelson teamed up with more than 25 community and private sector partners on an Albany/Schenectady/Troy Region submission to the Bloomberg Philanthropies Public Art Challenge. Their submission, Breathing Lights was one of four projects chosen to receive up to $1 million to realize their proposal.
For two months, Breathing Lights will illuminate the street-facing windows of hundreds of vacant buildings in Schenectady, Albany and Troy. Concentrated in economically disadvantaged neighborhoods with high vacancy rates, these installations will transform vacant structures from pockets of shadows into places of warmth.
The team hopes the massive installation will illuminate the region’s struggle with vacancy and its effects on residents and neighborhood economies, regenerating interest in once-vibrant communities. Through a combination of programming, newly-created digital resources and a comprehensive marketing and advocacy campaign, the intention is to create a platform for community stakeholders and policymakers to discuss the multi-faceted issue of vacancy and propose solutions.
For more information, please visit: BreathingLights.com
