The Visual Arts Department Faculty and Staff Exhibition
September 9 - November 22
Feigenbaum Center for Visual Arts
Crowell and West Galleries
Opening Reception
October 23, 2026
4:30 - 6:30pm
The Missing Curriculum: Why the Future Belongs to Students Who Trust Themselves
Thursday, October 1
6:00pm
Reamer Campus Center Auditorium
In this interactive presentation, award-winning author, TED speaker, and creator of The Power of Gesture ®, Jen Aks introduces students to an often-overlooked resource: the bodies intelligence. Grounded in neuroscience and brought to life through experiential hand gesture practice, students can discover practical tools to regulate the nervous system, strengthen self-trust, access creativity, and make thoughtful decisions, even when the path forward is unclear.
Co-sponsors: Visual Arts Department, Athletics, Wicker Wellness Center & the Career Center
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!
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