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Six Hamilton faculty members were recognized for their research and creative successes with the Dean’s Scholarly Achievement Awards, presented by Dean of Faculty Patrick Reynolds on Class & Charter Day on May 9.

A solo exhibition of sculptures by Associate Professor of Art Rebecca Murtaugh is on display through April 22 at the Thomas Hunter Project Space in Manhattan. The show, titled Cascade, includes colorful works in unfired clay, wood, paint and mixed media.

Sculptures by Associate Professor of Art Rebecca Murtaugh are featured in a group exhibition at Stout Projects in Brooklyn. “Occo Socko!” opens Friday, Oct. 16, with a reception from 6-8 p.m. at the gallery.

The work of Associate Professor of Art Rebecca Murtaugh will be on display this fall in exhibitions in New York, California and Washington, D.C.

Sculptures by Associate Professor of Art Rebecca Murtaugh will be on display in “Form and Facture: New Painting and Sculpture from New York.” The exhibition opens Saturday, Nov. 1, and continues through Dec. 13 at the Paul W. Zuccaire Gallery at Staller Center for the Arts on the Stony Brook University campus.

“Alluring Repulsions,” an exhibition of new sculptures by Associate Professor of Art Rebecca Murtaugh, will be on display March 7 – April 3 at Hilles Gallery at the Creative Arts Workshop (CAW).  The show will open with a reception on March 7, from 5 – 7 p.m., at the gallery, located at 80 Audubon Street in New Haven, Conn.

As artist Arlene Shechet explains, “Part of the process (of making art) is seeing art and talking about art.” Hamilton’s senior art majors had the opportunity to do just that on Oct. 25-27, taking a break from their own studios to go to New York City to visit five practicing artists.

Associate Professor of Art Rebecca Murtaugh will be exhibiting “Five Leaners” in the group show Meta Vista at 16 Wilson in Brooklyn, N.Y. The show runs Oct. 18 through Nov. 9, with a public opening reception on Oct. 18 from 6 – 9 p.m. Curating Contemporary is running a concurrent online exhibition of Meta Vista.

When Deanna Perez ’14 looks at a bookshelf, she doesn’t just see a row of book spines. Instead, she sees unwinding possibilities that can be unlocked both through reading and through art. “There’s endless potential in what could be between the leaves of a binding,” she remarked. In her Emerson Foundation project, “The Life of a Book: From the Bindery to the Pedestal,” she is crafting sculptures out of books to explore their narratives and to examine the balance between destroying books and giving them a new life through art.

Faculty Art Show 2013, an exhibition highlighting artwork from the art faculty at Hamilton College, opens at the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art on Thursday, June 6, and runs through Sunday, July 28.