Art Department

SUNY Oswego's annual Faculty Art Exhibition, opening Friday, March 8, will remember Richard Zakin, the late emeritus professor of art, with a display of his beautifully fashioned works -- from sculptures to ceramics, digital to hand-sketched pieces -- that helped define the art community at SUNY Oswego and in the community for half a century.

SUNY Oswego will present its 56th annual Juried Student Exhibition from Feb. 1 to 24 in Tyler Art Gallery, a competition for all students in a wide variety of media.

Five SUNY Oswego students under the mentorship of graphic design faculty member Rebecca Mushtare recently won the national AIR-U competition for accessibility in web design for the team's inclusive work on the Vote Oswego site.

SUNY Oswego art professor Juan Perdiguero will spend four months in Chile next spring as a Fulbright U.S. Scholar, teaching and doing research on techniques and processes in drawing that cut across traditional, single-discipline boundaries.

Mixed media and print artist Mary Pierce, a storyteller and cultural anthropologist, will display her latest work in an Oswego State Downtown exhibition running from Oct. 26 through Jan. 25.

Photographer and SUNY Oswego art faculty member Julieve Jubin will display her work from Camilo Cienfuegos, Cuba -- formerly known as Hershey -- in an exhibition Oct. 26 through Nov. 18 at Tyler Art Gallery.

Refinery29 co-founder/global editor-in-chief Christene Barberich, a 1991 Oswego graduate in both English writing arts and in art as well as a speaker at May's Commencement, discussed how what she studied in college played a role in her success, in an interview on ABC News Radio's "No Limits with Rebecca Jarvis."

SUNY Oswego professor of art Juan Perdiguero will present his recent mixed-media work in "Animalario," the opening exhibition of Tyler Art Gallery's 2018-19 season starting Aug. 31 in Tyler Hall on the college's main campus.

A SUNY Oswego panel has recommended college mini-grant funding for five project proposals -- ranging from a multicultural effort to provide water purifiers to Puerto Rico to helping support a talk by an eco-poet known for her poetry about the disasters such as those at Flint, Michigan, and the Deepwater Horizon -- developed for Grand Challenges: Fresh Water for All.