• Thursday, April 2 at 6:30pm
• Opalka Gallery, Sage College of Albany, 140 New Scotland Ave.
• FREE and open to the public
• 2014-15 Artist Lecture Series

In conjunction with the Interior Design (IND) program at Sage College of Albany, and co-sponsored by Opalka Gallery and the Department of Art + Design, interior designer Sarah Gillen Redmore will share her explorations of design strategies for an aging population.
With over 16 years professional interior design experience, Sarah Gillen Redmore is currently Assistant Professor and Program Coordinator of Environmental & Interior Design at Syracuse University. She uses design to help improve peoples’ lives and guide students to make a positive difference in the world. Over the past four years, her research has focused on exploring the relationship between design, aging, and disability. "The fastest growing segment of our population is over the age of 55, so it’s important that students are introduced to the unique needs of this demographic."
Redmore’s aging and disability initiative includes developing studio projects, hosting nationally recognized authors, coordinating empathy workshops, and reaching across campuses to collaborate with other professors. She has also helped launch a new MFA in Collaborative Design that will introduce graduate students to an interdisciplinary approach to designing for health and longevity. "Design is a dynamic profession where designers can use their creative problem-solving skills to do meaningful work."

• Thursday, March 5 at 6:30pm
• Opalka Gallery, Sage College of Albany, 140 New Scotland Ave.
• FREE and open to the public
• 2014-15 Artist Lecture Series

Recipient of the 2014 Emerging Artist Award presented by the Arts Center of the Capital Region, interdisciplinary artist Melinda (Mindy) McDaniel is the sixth visiting artist of the of the 2014-15 Artist Lecture Series at Sage College of Albany.
Melinda McDaniel grew up in Florida, inspired by the visual overload of Walt Disney World and the endless light at the center of the state’s predictable weather. She received a BFA in Studio Art from Florida State University and an MFA in Photography from The Ohio State University. In addition to exhibiting her work, Melinda teaches in the Fine Arts program and serves as Coordinator of the Art + Design Technology Center at the Sage College of Albany. She calls Troy, NY home. Visit http://www.melindamcdaniel.com/ to see samples of her work.

• Tuesday, February 24 at 6:30pm
• Opalka Gallery, Sage College of Albany, 140 New Scotland Ave.
• FREE and open to the public

This encore presentation of "Stay Tuned" (originally shown on November 21, 2014) brings back the annual screening of digital animation, motion graphics, and video art produced by students from the Department of Art + Design at Sage College of Albany. Don't miss it!

• Tuesday, February 3rd at 6:30pm
• Opalka Gallery, Sage College of Albany, 140 New Scotland Ave.
• FREE and open to the public
• 2014-15 Artist Lecture Series

Visual artist Monica Bill Hughes kicks off the spring season of the 2014-15 Artist Lecture Series at Sage College of Albany, co-sponsored by Opalka Gallery and the Department of Art + Design.
Monica Bill Hughes is a visual artist who lives and works in Wynantskill, NY. Ms. Bill Hughes’ most recent body of work consists of acrylic paintings and drawings inhabited by hybrid female figures in patterned domestic spaces. Her work explores contradictory impulses, femininity, and subconscious desire. Monica Bill Hughes received her MFA at The State University of New York at Albany (2014) and her BFA, Magna cum Laude, from The College of St. Rose in Albany, NY (2007). Her work has been shown in The Perrella Gallery at Fulton-Montgomery Community College, Richmond, Virginia at Virginia Commonwealth University’s Anderson Gallery, and at Collar Works Gallery in Troy, NY, among others.
Ms. Bill Hughes is the recipient of the Eric M. & S. Phillip Heiner Endowed Fellowship, The Hy Rosen Excellence in Painting and Drawing Award from the College of St. Rose (2007), as well as a Teaching Assistantship from the University at Albany. She has been featured as a spotlight artist on the 1 Op Collective blog (Newark, NJ) and in the Fence Select Exhibition, juried by Denise Markonish (Mass MoCA curator) at The Arts Center for the Capital Region, in Troy, NY. Most recently, she was the Artist in Residence at The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in Amherst, VA (January 2015).

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[paragraph]"Stay Tuned" is the annual screening of digital animation, motion graphics, and video art produced by students from the Department of Art + Design at Sage College of Albany. [/paragraph]

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[paragraph]Image: Colossus of Primaporta Ink on fabric, 2014. Site: Soap Factory[/paragraph]
[paragraph]Co-sponsored by Opalka Gallery and the Department of Art + Design, interdisciplinary artist Benjamin Entner wraps up the first half of the 2014-15 Artist Lecture Series at Sage College of Albany.[/paragraph]
[paragraph]Benjamin Entner creates works that are the result of conceptual play and material experimentation. Entner’s work actively engages a viewer to intimately react and interact through the use of humour, wonder, and large physical presence. Entner writes, “When I work, I am very conscious of my viewer and, often, I want to make my viewers conscious of themselves. I try to accomplish this by creating a presence of an object or installation that interrupts or intervenes in a viewer’s passive viewing of a piece, and forces them to actively experience it.”[/paragraph]
[paragraph]Entner’s current body of work is exploring the boundaries and interplay between two and three dimensional methods of making. Specifically, the point at which a drawing can become form and an object can become representation. These works are made with a keen awareness to art historical precedents and are often a direct reference to or parody of the figurative work of Classical and Renaissance masters.[/paragraph]
[paragraph]Benjamin's work has shown nationally and internationally; most recently with exhibitions at the Contemporary Arts Center of Las Vegas, the Soap Factory of Minneapolis, the Kenneth J Minnaert Center of the Arts in Olympia, WA, as well as, SOMA Kunstgeneratorinstitusjon in Bergen, Norway, and the Handwerker Gallery of Ithaca College.[/paragraph]

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[paragraph]Image: Clubs of Virtue, 1979 (second edition 1995)[/paragraph]
[paragraph]In conjunction with his retrospective exhibition “Meander, Because You Don’t See Much at a March / Mike Glier 1979 – 2013” at the Opalka Gallery, the third installment of the 2014-15 Artist Lecture Series at Sage College of Albany will feature the artist as he discusses his 35 year career.[/paragraph]
[paragraph]Born in Kentucky in 1953, Mike Glier received his BA from Williams College in 1976. He attended the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program and earned an MA in Studio Art from Hunter College in 1979.[/paragraph]
[paragraph]He was an active member of Collaborative Projects (Colab) from 1977 to 1984, and participated in The Times Square Show and The Real Estate Show. He was involved with Printed Matter, Inc., as both staff and then on the Board of Directors from 1979 and 2000. In 1996 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in painting and his 2004 installation “Town Green” (City of Cambridge, MA) was selected by Americans for the Arts as one of the best public art works of the year.[/paragraph]
[paragraph]Solo exhibitions of his drawing and painting have been presented at numerous venues including The Drawing Center, the Santa Monica Museum of Art, Williams College Museum of Art, Mass MoCA, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, San Jose Museum of Art, Wexner Center for the Arts, Pennsylvania Academy of Arts, Gerald Peters Gallery, Barbara Krakow Gallery, and American Graffiti Gallery.[paragraph]
[paragraph]Mike Glier is Professor of Art at Williams College and lives in New York with his wife, Jenny Holzer.[/paragraph]
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[paragraph]Co-sponsored by Opalka Gallery and the Department of Art + Design, this second installment of the 2014-15 Artist Lecture Series at Sage College of Albany will feature glass artist Scott Pernicka and his experience of using fire as a tool in his art practice.[/paragraph]
[paragraph]Pernicka was born in Santa Fe and grew up on a cattle ranch in northern New Mexico. During college, Pernicka enjoyed exploring the three dimensional space of sculpture and the importance of color in painting. Working in glass and combining the qualities of color and form, Scott continually discovers new creative possibilities in his art practice.[/paragraph]
[paragraph]Borosilicate glass, also known as hard glass, starts melting at a temperature of 1200 degrees. Using a torch fueled by propane and oxygen, Scott heats the clear glass to an average of 2500 degrees to form and shape it, then adds colors made from different metal oxides. This style of glass blowing known as flame or lamp working, is very intricate and quite valuable due to the extremely high temperatures required to work with the material.[/paragraph]
[paragraph]Pernicka's glass orbs, jewelry, and sculptures can be found in galleries across the United States and are held in private collections throughout the world.[/paragraph]