Current Exhibitions

The Capstone: 2024

Martin-Mullen Gallery
On view: May 18 - June 9, 2024 (while classes are in session or by appointment)
Reception: Thursday, May 18, 3-5 p.m.

The Capstone: 2024 is the inaugural exhibition presenting work created by upper-level SUNY Oneonta Art students. This exhibition is set to become an annual showing of some of the highest caliber art being produced on campus and includes final pieces created in both the Studio and Digital Capstone Courses taught in the Spring Semester. It features work by Julia Bogart, Jillian Curylo, Clayton Davis, Ava Erdmann, Kelly Flores-Gomez, Ryan Forth, Natalie Frank, Mia Gutierrez, Catherine Hilario, Kento Igarashi, Jhordyn Innocent, Luis Jimenez, Nicholas Keller, Alyssa Kress, Terence McFadden, Madelyn Morris, Breena Nachbar, Alaina Rullo, Hanna Rusnock, Christine Schmitt, Isabella Smarro, Aarianna Stickney, Ernesto Vega, Victoria Villaverde, Zackary Waldman, and Bird Wallace. Don't miss this extraordinary show that will be open to the public view from 8 a.m.-6 p.m. on May 18 for SUNY Oneonta's Commencement and 9 a.m.-5 p.m., June 7-9 for the Alumni Weekend. It will be open by appointment only May 20 - June 6.

Poster design by Michael Conte. Photo by Kento Igarashi.

Picturing a Pandemic

Open Space Gallery
On view: April 30-June 9, 2024
Reception: Thursday, May 2, 4-6 p.m.

Picturing a Pandemic is a visual narrative aligned with the recent publication, Chronicling a Crisis: SUNY Oneonta's Pandemic Diaries (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2023). Edited by Ed Beck (Instructional Designer, SUNY Oneonta), Darren D. Chase (Dean, Milne Library, SUNY Oneonta), Matthew C. Hendley (Professor of History, SUNY Oneonta), and Ann Traitor (Adjunct Assistant Professor of History, SUNY Oneonta), Chronicling a Crisis is a powerful primary source collection compiled during the peak of the COVID pandemic between spring 2020 and spring 2021. With over two hundred blog entries from SUNY Oneonta students, faculty, and staff—including diary reflections, poems, pictures, and thought pieces—this volume lays bare the grief, frustration, fear, resilience, and upheavals of this tumultuous period. This exhibition includes select images and text entries from the collection, interposed between the micro and macro timelines that begin each chapter of the book centered on events at SUNY Oneonta and around the world during the pandemic.

Poster design by Victoria Villaverde.

Classification and Visualization: Explorations in SUNY Oneonta’s Herbarium

Project Space Gallery
On view: April 23-June 9, 2024
Reception: Thursday, May 2, 4-6 p.m.

Classification and Visualization: Explorations in SUNY Oneonta’s Herbarium is a collaborative show presented with the Jewell and Arline Moss Settle Herbarium. This unique exhibition addresses the historical tie between scientific study, classification, and documentation, and the supporting visual materials created by artists and scientists. Magnified scientific photographs juxtapose botanical illustration with flowing watercolor illustrations of ferns by Xiaoyi Zeng (SUNY Oneonta '18, Digital Art, Film) contrasting against the unyielding and structured compound microscope images of sphagnum moss. A dress made from moss created by Manny Katz (SUNY Oneonta '25, Fashion and Textiles, Media Studies) and archival materials from Milne Library’s Alden Room are presented alongside these images and extend the creativity and history of the art forms surrounding botany. A special thanks to co-curators Dr. Sean Robinson and Cosette Veeder-Shave (Cooperstown Graduate Program, '24), as well as Anna Rutenbeck (A.J. Read Science Discovery Center) and Sophia Dunne (Milne Library) for their assistance in this exhibition.

Interested in learning more about this topic? Check out some suggested further reading selected by Dr. Sean Robinson (SUNY Oneonta, Biology).

Poster design by Victoria Villaverde.