Visual Arts Department

OUT FROM IN

May 16 - June 15, 2025
Crowell and West Galleries
Feigenbaum Center for Visual Arts

Open to the campus community and by appointment between 8am - 8pm daily.

Reception May 16, 4:30 - 6:30

The Union College Visual Arts class of 2025 is proud to present: Out From In, an exhibition featuring the work of the department’s 17 graduating students.

Our disparate interests, mediums, and practices manifest into a diverse selection of work that speaks to the developed individual tastes and skills of each artist. The interactions and connections between works belie a thriving sense of collaboration within the class and a constant, collective effort to elevate fellow students.

This show is a celebration of the journeys of self-discovery that have led the members of this class to making the sophisticated, articulate work presented here. It serves as a moment to reflect on the challenges and changes that have shaped our work and the lessons we will carry onward into our nascent artistic careers. Press Release

Sophia Rothberg

Opening Reception

Friday, May 16th
12:50 - 1:50 PM
Wold Student Gallery
Peter Irving Wold Center

On view through June 8.

In memory of artist and founder of Union College’s Visual Arts Department, the Arnold I. Bittleman Memorial Prize honors a student who has studied drawing in the Visual Arts department and whose work, in the judgment of an outside juror, is outstanding.

Thursday, May 22th
5:00 - 7:00 PM
Feigenbaum Center for Visual Arts
First Floor

The Visual Arts students will be selling their artwork at the third annual Visual Arts Student Art Fair!

Come and shop for yourself, buy a gift, support Union Students and become a patron of the arts!

Students will be selling ceramics, jewelry, prints, photographs, stickers, pins, keychains, 'zines, sketches, Chinese lacquer fan art and calligraphy made on-site, pastels, soft sculptures and more!

Refreshments will be available.

Visual Arts photography students along with Frank Rapant and Rachel Stern have artwork in an exhibition at Baxter Street Camera Club of New York on view in Manhattan. You can learn about the exhibition on the Visual Arts photography Instagram.

Participating students include:

• Zach Anisman
• Sam Brosnan
• Aspen Moris
• Andrea Mullen
• Bryan Nunez
• Isabel Pacchiana
• Iris Phenix
• Frank Rapant
• Spencer Shaffer
• Rachel Stern
• Vu Chi Tam
• Jack Vagzanelis
• Lily Von Barren
• Ece Yenigun
• Rowan Zeigler

PHOTOS: Exploring spaces and new perspectives in Jackson’s Garden

Students in AVA 310 - Experimental Drawing are using non-traditional materials and conceptual challenges to spark play in their drawing practices and expand their notion of art making

The Union College Visual Arts Department was recently featured in a WAMC story. Listen here.

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.

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