Visual Arts

Visual Arts Department

Matthew Leifheit: Gay Archive

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Pedro Zamora Capitol Hill November 1st 1993 (VHS Recording)
GLBT Historical Society, San Francisco, 2024

September 4th - November 12, 2024

Crowell and West Galleries, Feigenbaum Center for Visual Arts
9:00am - 5:00pm daily

Opening Reception: October 3, 4:30 - 6:30pm

Artist Talk: October 3, 12:50pm
Room 204, Feigenbaum Center for Visual Arts

Take a virtual tour of the exhibit.

Since 2021 Matthew Leifheit has traveled the country visiting and photographing in queer archives. Leifheit describes: “During the 1970s and 80s, independent archives were established by LGBTQ Americans to collect materials that major institutions would not. These materials—pictures, letters, T-shirts, protest signs, ephemera, and the like—document queer culture and identity in the 20th century, in relation to the rise of the US gay rights movement. More importantly, they contain the evidence of many peoples’ lives who would otherwise be lost to history, for reasons ranging from homophobia to racial prejudice, sexism and AIDS.” Union College presents this series of photographs and video at our Crowell and West Galleries in the Feigenbaum Center for Visual Arts.

Press Release

Photography Students and Faculty Exhibiting in New York City

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

WAMC Northeast Public Radio Feature

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

Our Department

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.

Steamroller Day in Printmaking

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