Visual Arts Department

May 17 - June 16, 2024

Crowell and West Galleries, Feigenbaum Center for Visual Arts

Opening Reception: Friday, May 17, 4:30 - 6:30pm

The Visual Arts Department is pleased to present work of senior Studio Art majors Sam Crowley, Chris Delances, Andy Mullen, Isabel Pacchiana, Iris Phenix, and Ysabel Thompson..

Senior Talks: Wednesday, May 22, 12:50-1:50pm, Feigenbaum Center for Visual Arts, Crowell and west Galleries.

April 15 - May 12, 2024

The 2024 Steinmetz Symposium Student Art Exhibition is now open in the Crowell and West Galleries in the Feigenbaum Center for Visual Arts.

Take a virtual tour of the exhibit.

Join the Visual Arts Department May 1 from 5:00-7:00 for our Open Studios and 2nd annual ART FAIR! Open only to the Union College community.

Check out all the opportunities to use our equipment, studios and materials, ask questions, hang with friends, and just have some fun:

• Student artwork at the 2nd annual Visual Arts Art Fair!
• Learn about the visual arts student clubs.
• View the Steinmetz Exhibition.
• Learn to hand build your own bowls and sculptures.
• Use our CNC router to carve your own wooden name plate. Learn about creative digital-to-physical processes and how to incorporate them into your work.
• Participate in a robotic collage demo (robot hacking!)
• Printmaking with Matisse-inspired shapes.
• Have a black and white headshot made with dramatic lighting… and some dogs! Take home the photo, use it for a professional headshot, profile picture or just a general flex.
• Star as the subject of a famous piece of artwork and take home the photo.
• Figure drawing with a live model 5-6pm.

The Department of Visual Arts is committed to the centrality of art in the liberal arts at Union College. We do so from a position unique among other departments on campus. Already by nature interdisciplinary, the department has in recent years increasingly become a dynamic intersection of scholarly undertakings and teaching initiatives across the campus. Our vision is to strengthen the multiple connections between ourselves and other academic departments and to reach beyond the campus to develop relationships with other arts institutions. Our vision is to continue to bridge the past, present, and future for our students through painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, printmaking, digital art, and art history. Our vision, in short, is to enrich the Union College community through art.

Take a virtual tour of the Feigenbaum Center for Visual Arts.

Union graduates, like the ones featured below, are thriving in the art world. Learn more about art at Union, and read additional alumni stories, in the Spring 2023 magazine.

Professor Conley's Post Digital Printmaking class printed their oversized woodcuts with a steamroller!