Recently, the Interior Design Program participated in CANstruction, a unique charity event organized by local design and construction industry professionals. Teams designed sculptures made entirely of canned foods which were on display at the New York State Museum for two weeks in the beginning of April. This year's them was heroes and the Interior Design Program designed a structure based on a Captain America comic book cover. Our team's "Captain AmeriCAN" was composed of over 2,000 cans of food which were donated to local food pantries at the close of the event. Our students raised over $5,000 for this event and were awarded the Team Spirit trophy for their hard work on this project. You can learn more about CANstruction at www.canstruction.org.
April 24, 2015 — Comments are off for this post.
Interior Design Students Complete CANstruction Project
April 24, 2015 — Comments are off for this post.
Students Participate in New York Eleven Plus Exhibitions
The Sage College of Albany Interior Design Program recently participated in the annual New York Eleven Plus (NY11+) exhibition. Sage interior design student work was on display alongside the work of students from other New York State interior design programs in locations in both Albany and New York City. NY11+ is an opportunity for both students and professionals to be involved in educating the public and our state legislators about the work done by professional interior designers. You can learn more about the organization here.
February 8, 2015 — Comments are off for this post.
Interior Design Students Display Work at Home Expo
The Interior Design Program was represented at the Times Union Home Expo for the first time this year. The program shared space with Albany Center Gallery on the stage of the Convention Center at Empire State Plaza. This was a great opportunity for students to show their work to the community. Student work on display featured many projects from Residential Design courses, as well as several commercial and lighting design projects.
February 8, 2015 — Comments are off for this post.
Interior Design Students Win NKBA Chapter Awards
Members of the senior class of Sage's Interior Design Program attended the NY Tri-State NKBA Chapter awards gala on December 3rd at the Saratoga National Golf Club. Congratulations to Lacy O'Brien and Kimberly Houle for their award nominations, to Jessica Dorsett for her 2nd place finish for the Langford Award, and to Robert Brisson for his 1st place Langford Award and Best Student Design award.
January 2, 2015 — Comments are off for this post.
Partnership Turns Bus Shelters into Pop-Up Art Galleries
Digital work by eight Sage College of Albany student-artists is featured in a pilot public art project that is turning bus shelters along Central Avenue into pop-up art galleries.
ArtTV is sponsored by Capital District Transportation Authority and the Central Avenue Business Improvement District. Five 42-inch screens will be installed at CDTA’s busiest bus stations along the avenue to display all types of artworks including paintings, photographs, films, performances, interviews and more arts programming for a cross-section of city residents.
“It stems from a federal public art grant, but as opposed to murals and static installations typical in public art grants, CBID and CDTA partnered to deliver constantly changing artworks to the public through digital technology,” said Sean Hovendick, assistant professor and program director of Graphic + Media Design. Hovendick worked with CBID Executive Director Anthony Capece to learn the digital signage system and taught Time Arts and Digital Production classes as service learning courses in which students created works specifically for the public. “Think mini-TV station,” he said. “Content can be similar along the route, or individual for each bus station. Programming is broadcast during commuter hours for now, but it could be 24/7. We’re all very excited to be participating in this innovative project.”
Albany Mayor Kathy Sheehan and ArtTV featured artists including Art + Design students Dakotah Toma SCA ’17 and Jon Josephsen SCA ’15 attended a kickoff event in October. In addition to Toma and Josephsen, David Saunders SCA ’17, Katielynn Canavan SCA ’17, Thaddeus Sipe SCA ’16, Greg Ryan SCA ’15, Kelly Raver SCA ’14 and Krystal Hinckley SCA ’15 also had work accepted for ArtTV.
“This is a tremendous learning opportunity for our students as well as a great way for us to give back to the community through the beautification of public art,” said Hovendick. ”In the future, all types of work from Sage’s Art + Design Department will be included.”
The first bus station to receive the ArtTV technology is on the corner of Central Avenue and Quail Street.
November 1, 2014 — Comments are off for this post.
Students attend AIGA Networking Event
Sage students and alumni were seen in force at this week's Upstate NY AIGA Chapter Design Crawl held in Saratoga Springs, NY on October 28. The event featured tours of 3 design studios: Fingerpaint, Palio/Ignite and MadGlory, with stops at some of Saratoga's finest eateries in between. Students were able to meet and mingle with local industry leaders. Another great event for our Graphic + Media Design students!
October 29, 2014 — Comments are off for this post.
Interior Design Students Present to Board of Trustees
On Thursday, October 23rd, the senior class of the Interior Design Program presented their design for "From Concept to Console: Art and Aesthetics in Video Game Design" to the Sage Colleges Board of Trustees. Their presentation was followed by a brief question and answer session led by President Susan Scrimshaw. Congratulations to our senior class for putting together a professional presentation for the board members.
September 26, 2014 — Comments are off for this post.
Interior Design Students Collaborate with Opalka Gallery on Design of Upcoming Exhibition
When “From Concept to Console: Art and Aesthetics in Video Game Design” opens this coming spring in the Opalka Gallery, the exhibition will feel familiar to some of the students in Sage’s Interior Design program. That’s because last semester Assistant Professor Janice Medina’s Contract II class worked on an exhibition design project for Opalka Gallery Director, Elizabeth Greenberg. The collaboration marks the first time that interior design students will witness aspects of their design work used by the Opalka Gallery while they are undergraduates at Sage.
The project was completed during the students’ junior level Contract II course. In this advanced design studio, students explore the process of space planning and design as it relates to complex interior environments. The Spring 2014 semester was especially exciting as students worked on two projects for actual clients. Presentations to the clients provided students with the opportunity to gain valuable client feedback. For the Opalka Gallery project, students benefitted from the close proximity to their client. They were able to have several meetings with Greenberg as the project progressed and visited the gallery on multiple occasions.
Students worked as a group of four and were responsible for making their own decisions regarding the division of work assignments and the deliverables produced for the client. As student Lacy O’Brien ‘15 points out, “This was the first project where our whole class got to work together as a team; it was great to see how our individual skill sets and knowledge gained over our time here could be brought together in a unified and cohesive design for the gallery."
By the spring semester of their junior year, interior design students have proficiency in a wide variety of software programs and applications. Many current design technologies were utilized for this project. In addition to conceptual development, students needed to figure out how to accurately model the gallery space. To begin, students site measured the entire Opalka Gallery and then drafted scaled floor plans and elevations in AutoCAD. Information from AutoCAD drawings was used with the laser cutter to create walls for the physical model. The model was constructed from a variety of paperboard products. Additionally, the students created realistic perspective views using SketchUp, Photoshop, and various lighting plug-ins. The final model and renderings helped the client to visualize the project.
The students also made use of the laser cutter when creating mock-ups for framing options. Students designed three options for framing and Greenberg, as client, selected her preferred method; a system utilizing two sheets of plexiglas with artwork sandwiched between them and held in place with anodized aluminum standoffs.
Work on this project is ongoing, with class member Jessica Dorsett ’15 spending her work study hours in the Opalka Gallery this semester. Jessica is further developing a series of plexiglass “pixels” - hanging boxes to be suspended in the gallery space for the duration of the exhibition. To figure out the best method for constructing these boxes, Jessica is researching adhesive products and testing different methods of cutting the plexiglass.
This type of inter-disciplinary project is essential as our design students move into a world where they will be required to design for a variety of clients, such as healthcare providers, educators, retailers, and more, while working alongside architects, lighting specialists, engineers, and other professionals. As student Lacy O’Brien states, “We were really proud to be able to provide solutions for real-life design problems, especially specific to our school. We felt like we were giving back”.
September 23, 2014 — Comments are off for this post.
Photographic artist Robert Gullie visits Sage
On September 11th, the Topics in Photography course participated in a hand-coloring workshop at Sage with photographic artist, Robert Gullie. The students explored the 19th century art of hand painting silver prints in a contemporary context, applying these techniques to photographic imagery.
Some of the techniques Robert shared included hand-coloring, photo collage construction, and his book illustrations.
As we begin a new academic year, this engaging workshop served to introduce the students to advanced photographic techniques that mixed historic processes with contemporary applications.
August 27, 2014 — Comments are off for this post.
Professor Harold Lohner's Prints Featured in Exhibition
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SMALL + SEDUCTIVE, the current exhibition at the Albany Institute of History and Art, includes 2 monoprints by Sage Professor of Art, Harold Lohner. Drawn from its extensive permanent collection, the show features “intimate, occasionally intricate, but always intriguing, small works of art [that] invite us to step close and peer into their spatially bounded world.”
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Lohner’s prints are from his First Aid series, among his earliest monoprints completed during a residency at Yaddo in Saratoga Springs. The show also includes works by other Sage faculty: Professor Emerita Willie Marlowe, Professor Emeritus William B. Schade (1945-2008) and Associate Professor Gayle Johnson (1953-1995). SMALL + SEDUCTIVE runs through September 28 at the Washington Avenue museum.
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