Arts + culture

For SUNY Oswego senior theatre major Ian Katz, directing the Theatre Department’s production of “The Grown Ups” culminates years of hard work in a program that allows students to experience many different avenues.

Albert Abonado –- an award-winning poet, essayist and SUNY Oswego faculty member -- is the next featured guest in the Living Writers Series on Monday, Nov. 10. The event, at 3 p.m. in the Marano Campus Center auditorium (room 132) will include a poetry reading, followed by a Q&A and book signing.

SUNY Oswego’s Theatre Department’s second show of the season, “The Grown Ups,” unfolds as an educational and entertaining experience with a production directed by student Ian Katz and with students as lead designers and technicians.

Award-winning author, poet and professor Shana Youngdahl is the next featured guest in SUNY Oswego’s Living Writers Series, appearing at 3 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 3 in the Marano Campus Center auditorium, room 132.

Opening Oct. 21 in Tyler Art Gallery, "All That Remains" features artwork by SUNY Oswego art faculty members Peter Cardone and Christopher McEvoy. While each artist explores themes of slippage, memories and the push/pull of reality, their artworks engage these concepts in very different ways.

Writer, editor and sensitivity reader Shannon Luders-Manuel will be the next featured guest in SUNY Oswego’s Living Writers Series, appearing virtually at 3 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 27.

SUNY Oswego’s Theatre Department is showcasing how art and science intersect in their production of “Silent Sky,” running Oct. 15 to 18.

Award-winning author and SUNY Oswego professor Soma Mei Sheng Frazier will be the next featured guest in the Living Writers Series at 3 p.m. on Monday, Oct, 13 in the Marano Campus Center auditorium (room 132). The event will include a reading from her novel "Off the Books," followed by a Q&A and book signing. It is free and open to the campus and the community.

SUNY Oswego's annual Festival of Fire -- a collaboration between the Department of Technology and the Department of Art and Design, brings an opportunity to heat up creativity on Friday, Oct. 17.

Acclaimed photographer and 1994 alumnus Daniel Weiss returns to campus for a three-day visit Oct. 14 to 16 to present his “Holocaust Survivor Portrait Series” in the Penfield Library lobby, culminating in a public artist talk on Wednesday, Oct. 15.