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Linda Sormin, a professor of ceramic art at the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, came to Hamilton as part of The Visiting Artist Series on Feb. 20.

The Wellin Museum of Art’s newest exhibition, Theaters of Fiction – works that address both the theater and opera’s historic associations with power, privilege, and wealth and those that represent sites of more democratic and popular entertainment – opens on Saturday, Feb. 16.

From September through December, the Wellin Museum’s Jeffrey Gibson: This is the Day exhibition attracted a continuous flow of media attention.

What does business have to do with the arts? Kate Spencer K’79 learned about this the hard way when she walked in on two professors competing in a critique of her art. “It didn’t even have anything to do with me,” she said. “It was just two professors debating, but I had to watch my pride deflate right in front of them. I learned that day that my ego was something that I had to manage if I really wanted to make a living as an artist.”

Hamilton’s senior art concentrators embarked on the annual Art Department trip to New York City to see and learn from contemporary studio artists and their work from Nov. 1 - 3. The seniors visited the studios of painter Loren Munk, photographer Eileen Quinlan, photographer and sculptor Ellie Krakow, painter Peter Krashes, and photographer Laurel Nakadate from Thursday to Saturday.

This semester, the museum will host nearly 40 class sessions from 18 different courses that have incorporated Jeffrey Gibson’s work into their curriculum.

Educational Technologist and Digital Media Specialist Ben Salzman ’14, Jon Bellona ’03, and Professor of Art Ella Gant recently honored Professor of Music Sam Pellman in presentations at the Kyma International Sound Symposium.

Jeffrey Gibson, the artist behind the Wellin Museum’s latest exhibition, attended an Artist Discussion in the Barrett Lab Theater on Sept. 8 as part of the opening events. Accompanied by the museum’s curator, Tracey Adler, Gibson described his experience in pulling together the exhibition. “It was challenging for a number of reasons, and part of it is because of the high level of details being considered.” Gibson works with materials ranging from paintings and sculptures to garments and film.

Elaborately adorned helmets, large-scale sculptural garments draped on tipi poles, beaded panels, tapestries, weavings, abstract geometric paintings and a new film greet visitors in an outpouring of color to the Wellin Museum’s fall exhibition.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Art Max Ferro and his wife have been volunteering at a community project called Handshake.City in downtown Utica. They are painting a mural to be inaugurated at the first Handshake.City event on Aug. 25 called The Downtown Getdown. Handshake.City is a new park with shipping containers for vendors and events.