Union Women: 3 Decades of Art

Claudia Gioseffi '76, Sally Eckhoff '77, Tina Tryforos '86, 
Linda E.;Fisher '87, Elizabeth Tremante '89,
Meredith Miller '97, Veronica Sack '00 

Opening: November 6, 2000 thru January 14, 2001

Opening Reception from 5:00pm to 7:00pm
November 9, 2000
Panel Discussion from 7:30 to 9:00 with:
Sally Eckhoff '77, Linda E. Fisher '87, Meredith Miller '97 
 

Master Class with Tina Tryforos: Pin Hole Camera
Saturday January 6, 2001, 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM (with a break for lunch), Arts Building Room 206

Class will explore the mysterious low -tech qualities of pinhole photography and will construct pinhole cameras and use them to make photographs. Class will include an introduction to historical and contemporary pinhole practice. Limited space available: call 518. 388. 6729 for reservations, deadline December 15, 2000.  Free for Union College Students, $15 for others.
 

Cassat and Chopin: Mother Imagery in 19th Century Painting and Literature
Lecture by Carolyn Mitchell
January 9, 2001, 7:30PM, Nott Memorial

Claudia Gioseffi

UNION COLLEGE has a long and illustrious history as a liberal arts institution. It was the first college chartered by the Regents of the State of New York in 1795 and was for 175 years an all-male institution. Women were first admitted in 1970 and since then have made major contributions to the academic and social life on campus and - as graduates - to many phases of professional life in the United States and abroad. Union College women occupy major positions as lawyers, doctors, scientists, and academicians.

The exhibition Union Women - 3 Decades of Art honors those particular women who have established their interest and expertise as artists - from Claudia Gioseffi who graduated in 1976 to be a painter of bold colorful landscapes, to Veronica Sack, a member of Union's most recent graduating class, and a printmaker who works on cloth as well as paper. The exhibitors include not only professional artists, but also those such as Meredith R. Miller '97, a lawyer for whom printmaking and photography are avocations - counterbalances to the discipline of law, and Sally Eckhoff '77, whose creative life bridges both the professions of painter and writer. Tina Tryforos "86 is a photographer who works with plastic cameras to explore the "unintentional consequences of making art with a toy". Linda E. Fisher "87 paints richly textured landscapes that explore "how land reveals time". Elizabeth Tremante '89 took only a few art classes at Union but is now a painter inspired by the "sense of alienation from reality" she finds around her in Los Angeles.

The painters, and photographers who share in this exhibition are those for whom art is both vocation and avocation. They are validation of an on-going tradition of excellence sustained by women in the arts and a tribute to the foresight of Union College in expanding its vision to embrace education.

-Carolyn Mitchell, Director of the Union College Women Studies Program and Co-Curator
 

Linda E. Fisher