Amendments, an exhibition of new work by GMD professor Jean Dahlgren, will open at Sage's Little Gallery on March 1,  as part of Albany's First Friday events. The work explores chance happenings in digital photography and confronts the nature of transmitted light and its effect on color and form in digital imagery. The show runs March 1-29, 2013, and the Gallery will be closed March 11-17 for spring break. Gallery hours are Sunday–Friday 1:00–5:00 pm. Call 518.292.1778 for more information.

Sage professors Beau Comeaux, Sean Hovendick and Jean Dahlgren spoke at the first Student Portfolio Workshop held by the Upstate NY Chapter of AIGA in early February. Organized by Doug Bartow of id 29, the workshop featured a distinguished panel of speakers to a crowd of 80+ students from area colleges and universities. Professor Comeaux shared some excellent tips about photographing work for your portfolio, while GMD Program Coordinator Sean Hovendick expressed his opinion on artists' websites (see image above). Professor Dahlgren shared the Do's, Don'ts and Don't Evers of writing and designing résumés. Other speakers included Sage alumna Ally VanHouten from event sponsor Mohawk Paper and many others. The event took place at the Foundry for Art, Design + Culture in Cohoes, NY.

Friday, December 7, 2012
6pm. Free.
Opalka Gallery
Sage College of Albany
As part of the Milton Glaser exhibit, In Search of the Miraculous or One Thing Leads to Another, join us for a discussion by former Glaser student, designer and food writer Celia Cheng. She will discuss working with Glaser, and how she developed her passions for design and food into the web phenomenon Cravings.
Celia Cheng launched Cravings in 2005 as a guide to satiating food cravings and to share restaurant recommendations. Cravings enabled her to combine her passion for dining, traveling, writing and designing. She has also been able to utilize her expertise and experience from her management consulting and online advertising background to develop Cravings into a full-fledged online resource. Celia holds a B.A. in Japanese Studies from Columbia University and an M.F.A. in Design from the School of Visual Arts. Raised between Taiwan and Hawaii, and having lived and worked in Japan, she is fluent in both Chinese and Japanese.
For more information, please visit the Opalka Gallery website.

The Graphic + Media Design program, Department of Visual Arts and Opalka Gallery at Sage College of Albany are extremely honored to host two exhibits of Milton Glaser's art and design work. The opening reception is Friday, November 2nd from 5-9pm, and part of Albany's monthly 1st Friday art celebration.
In Search of the Miraculous: One Thing Leads to Another will be held in the Opalka Gallery while The Posters, A Survey will be exhibited at the Little Gallery in Rathbone Hall. Both venues are on the Sage College of Albany campus at 140 New Scotland Avenue.
To Inform and Delight, a film about Milton Glaser by Wendy Keys will be shown on Wednesday, November 14th at 6pm in the Opalka Gallery. Admission at the door is $5.

The exhibition is free, open to the public and runs through December 14th, 2012.
Opalka Gallery hours
Mon–Fri: 10am - 8pm
Sunday: Noon-4pm.
Little Gallery hours
Sun–Fri: 1pm - 5pm
For more information, please visit: www.sage.edu/opalka

Sage students visited AIGA's NY offices on a recent trip to New York City. David Hall, Education Coordinator for AIGA National, gave students a tour of the Fifth Avenue offices, including the design collections and library. The main gallery space featured the Get Out the Vote posters, an initiative in which Sage students participated.

Congratulations to GMD seniors Chris Galindez and Andrew Parkes for being included in AIGA's 2012 Get Out The Vote campaign. Their motion graphic work is featured on the AIGA website among other selections from designers nationwide.
Chris Galindez’s infographic titled, Effect the Shift, and Andrew Parkes’ video short were created with very different design styles from each other, yet both did a wonderful job at conveying the message of why everyone’s individual vote really does matter.

If you get the chance to go to New York City, the Get Out the Vote exhibition is at the AIGA National Design Center. The exhibit if from October 3rd through November 30th, 2012.

Professor Chris St.Cyr recently completed the judging for the 2012 Folio Awards. The Ozzies, as they are known in the publishing industry, are the design component of the Folios Awards. The Eddies are given to excellence in writing.
The 2012 winners can be found on the Folio Awards website (www.folioawards.com) The FolioShow, which has been renamed MediaNext, is the annual event to honor the winners. It is scheduled for October 31, 2012. More information about the Folio network can be found on their website (www.foliomag.com).

The ongoing series Undetermined Measurements by Sean Hovendick and John Wesley Mannion has been selected by the Everson Museum of Arts' curator, Debra Ryan to be included in the biennial exhibition TONY: The Other New York 2012.
This exhibition held in Syracuse, NY features 63 artists in 14 different venues, showcasing the creativity of artists from Central and Upstate New York and surrounding areas. This is Syracuse's most extensive exhibit of creativity ever hosted in the city.
Working under the pseudonym AREA, Hovendick and Mannion conduct "interventionist performances" in various urban and public settings dressed in masks and contamination suits. Undetermined Measurements makes people suddenly question the safety of our environment, sheds light on the uncertainty of our public freedoms and explores the comforts people take for granted in everyday life.

Graduating seniors seniors Chris Galindez, Ron Gibbons, Larissa Stuts, Leo Valenchis, and Jason Zigrino have been chosen as the Sage's most promising students to attend the prestigious National Student Portfolio Review held at the Art Directors Club in New York City.
This invitation-only annual event features the "top graduating students of the nation's best visual communications schools." Students studying design, advertising, and interactive media are selected each year to participate the ADC'S program and receive valuable professional critiques, as well as creative advice from some of the finest creative directors, designers, and recruiters including Anthropologie, BBDO, Condé Nast, Google Creative Labs, JWT, MTV, Pentagram, RGA, Saatchi & Saatchi, Studio Kudos, and SS+K.

"We're very proud of our students and pleased our GMD program is being represented so well. Sage College of Albany has wonderfully creative individuals that work hard and deserve this recognition." said Professor Sean Hovendick, Coordinator of Graphic + Media Design. He and two other professors from the GMD program accompany students every year to the event in midtown Manhattan.

May 4 – July 20, 2012
Opalka Gallery
Sage College of Albany
Opening Reception: Friday, May 4th, 5-9pm
Hours for this exhibit: Monday-Friday 10am-4pm
Commencement weekend: May 12 & 13, 12pm-4pm
Closed: May 29 and July 2nd-4th