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March 12-25, 2025
Mia Brownell (BFA ‘93) was awarded a public art commission to design bicycle shelters as part of a $10 million revitalization effort in the historic downtown area of Geneva, NY.
Felipe Castelblanco (MFA ’13) is showing new works in “Unter Pflanzen (Among Plants),” an exhibition curated by Kathrin Meyer, Yvonne Volkart, Moritz Ohlig, and Sophie Olivotto at Museum Sinclair-Haus, on view through August 17.
Leslie Golumb (BFA ’75), John Lysak (BFA ’88), and Burton Morris (BFA ’86), along with Professors Kim Beck, Clayton Merrell, and Alisha Wormsley; emeritus faculty James Duesing, Patricia Bellan-Gillen, and Susanne Slavick; and former faculty Ed Eberle, Mary Hood, and Kathleen Mulcahy will exhibit at the Brooklyn Print Fair through Artist Image Resource, March 27-30.
Inbar Hagai (MFA ’24), the Season I, 2025 International Residency Artist at the New York Art Residency & Studios (NARS) Foundation, co-curated “PROXIES,” a screening event in collaboration with Departure Lounge, a new artist-run platform founded by Matthew McGaughey (MFA ’22). The screening was part of the Art in Dialogue public program series on March 21.
Deborah Kass (BFA ’74) is currently exhibiting “The Art History Paintings 1989–1992” at Salon 94 gallery, on view through March 29. The show was recently reviewed in Hyperallergic.
Shohei Katayama (MFA ’19) curated “Machina Ex-Natura” at 849 Gallery, Kentucky College of Art and Design, featuring work by Professor Isla Hansen (MFA ’15) and Erin Mallea (MFA ’19). The exhibition closes March 31.
Christina Lee (BFA ‘14) exhibited at the 2025 MoCCA Fest and received the MoCCA Award of Excellence for her minicomic Personality, a collection of autobiographical comics from 2022-2024. MoCCA Fest is NYC’s largest independent comics and cartoon festival, drawing over 9,000 attendees annually.
Erin Mallea (MFA ’19) and Shori Sims (BFA ’22) are exhibiting in “every speck of dust illuminated” at the Tomayko Foundation in Pittsburgh through April 18. The Tomayko Foundation gives monetary awards to select artists in each of its Fall and Spring shows, and Mallea was one of this exhibition’s winners.
Ester Petukhova (BFA ’23) received the Scholastic Art & Writing Alumni Micro-grant Award to produce Little Odessa, A Brighton Beach Anthology, a 100-page hardcover book about Brighton Beach in South Brooklyn. The book will be available in historical archives and libraries, including The Center for Brooklyn History, The New York Historical Society, and The Library of Congress. Ester will also give an artist talk as part of NOSTALGIA: notions + praxes at the SVA Graduate Center on April 4.
Leah Piepgras (MFA ’97) will present LOVER, a video, sound, and sculpture installation, at NO CALL NO SHOW in South Boston, March 29-30.
Liz Rudnick (BFA ’12) will exhibit core sample at Bottom Feeder Books in Pittsburgh, April 5-26.
Raymond Saunders (BFA ’60) is featured in “Paris Noir – Artistic Circulations and Anti-Colonial Resistance, 1950-2000,” curated by Alicia Knock at Centre Pompidou, on view through June 30.
Stephanie Serpick (BFA ’93) will open her solo exhibition “An Act of Reflection” at Tambaran 2 Gallery in New York City on April 3, marking her return to the gallery.
Image: Erin Mallea in “every speck of dust illuminated” at the Tomayko Foundation. Photo by Chris Uhren.