Visual Arts Department

Friday, May 22
Common Hour
Visual Arts room 204

The Visual Arts Department invites you to a lunch talk with Evi Fisher, a creative arts therapist. Evi will explain what it means to be an expressive arts psychotherapist, her journey to become one, and how she uses art in her practice.

Evi received her master's degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling with a specialization in Expressive Arts therapy from Lesley University in Cambridge, MA. She works with adults, teens, children and seniors with varying mental health concerns. Evi maintains a private practice in Saratoga Springs, NY.

Tuesday May 26th
12:50 1:50pm
Feigenbaum Center for Visual Arts
Room 204

Lunch will be provided.

Please join Visual Arts for a visiting artist lecture from the photographer Tanya Marcuse.

Tanya is an American photographer most known for her large-scale photographs that explore the imperiled natural world. Her projects use increasingly fantastical imagery and elaborate methods of construction to explore cycles of growth and decay and the dynamic tension between the passage of time and the photographic medium.

May 15 - June 16
Crowell and West Galleries
Feigenbaum Center for Visual Arts
Monday - Friday 8:00 AM - 8:00 PM

Opening reception:
Friday, May 15
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM

Union College's Visual Arts Department is proud to announce The End of Beginning, an exhibition featuring the work of twelve graduating seniors: Ashlesha Bhagat, Maya Dow, Idalis Fuentes, Cate Hicks, Anh Nguyen, Mia Polenberg, Simon Rhodes, Juliette Richenthal, Sophia Rothberg, Jane Mae Schreiner, Benjamin Stern, and Alissa Tsay.

The End of Beginning, an exhibition celebrating the accomplishments of the department's graduating students and the years of dedication, growth, and artistic discovery that have brought them to this moment. Working across an expansive range of mediums and disciplines including interactive installation, augmented reality, weaving, film photography, mokuhanga woodblock printing, oil painting, environmental portraiture, digital media, 3D printing, 8mm filmmaking, and real-time interactive technology. These twelve artists have each forged a practice that is unmistakably their own. Their disparate interests and approaches manifest into a rich, diverse body of work that speaks to the depth of skill, curiosity, and perseverance each student has cultivated throughout their time at Union. The End of Beginning is both a celebration and a reflection - honoring the challenges these students have met, the artists they have become, and the promising careers that now lie ahead.

March 30 - May 10, 2026
Crowell and West Galleries
Feigenbaum Center for Visual Arts

8:00am - 8:00 pm (for campus community only at this time)

Featuring the best and most accomplished student work from the 2025-2026 academic year, as selected by the Visual Arts faculty.

This year the Steinmetz Exhibition includes 270 individual works by 76 art students.

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!