Posted on Sep 23, 2009

Through Sept. 27
Wikoff Student Gallery
Nott Memorial
A Perfect Press, Printed by Union Students

Featured prints were created in “Printmaking: Etching,” taught by Sandra Wimer in the spring. The pieces employ a variety of techniques: etching, aquatint, soft-ground, pigmented inkjet and polymer photogravure printing. Many of the final prints combine several different techniques to create a single image.

Through Oct. 16
Schaffer Library
Thelma and Kenneth Lally Reading Room
Degas’ Contemporaries

Union's exhibition is part of the "Season of Degas," a multi-organization partnership with the Hyde Collection in Glens Falls, N.Y., which is currently showcasing “Degas and Music.”  The Union show features etchings and lithographs from Union’s Permanent Collection by peers of famed French impressionist Edgar Degas. The Department of Visual Arts is sponsoring a bus trip for a guided tour of the Hyde Collection exhibit, Saturday, Oct. 3, noon-4 p.m. Free to members of the Union community. Space limited; signup in Visual Arts office required. 

Through Nov. 14
Visual Arts Building
Arts Atrium
Greg Eltringham, Paintings and Drawings

This exhibit features the work of Greg Eltringham, professor of painting at the Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, Ga.

Through March 14
Schaffer Library Atrium
Union Notables

A celebration of the great men and women who have studied and worked at the College. Every six months, a new group of three notables is featured. Currently featured are assistant professor and janitor Charles Frederick Chandler (1836-1925);  actor, playwright,  journalist and producer John Howard Payne (1791-1852); and College Librarian Ruth Anne Evans (1924-2001).

Sept. 25  – Oct. 24
Nott Memorial
Mandeville Gallery
North by Northeast: Baskets and Beadwork from the Akwesasne Mohawk and Tuscarora"

Selected pieces from a traveling exhibition curated by Kathleen Mundell, folklorist and director of Cultural Resources, a nonprofit organization that helps communities sustain local culture. An opening reception will be held Friday, Oct. 2, 5-8 p.m. in the Nott Memorial.