Academics | Dana Arts Center, Second Floor
The Collections: What is the role of an art museum on a liberal arts college campus? Since 2013, the collections at Picker Art Gallery have been shifting. Moving away from traditional models of collecting, the museum today holds a larger proportion of artworks by women, BIPOC, LGBTQ+ artists and others whose creativity and stories have historically been left out of museum collections.The Core: The revision of Colgate’s Core Curriculum represents the essence of the university’s liberal arts commitments to diversity, equity, and inclusion. Introduced in 2022, the revised Core curriculum has a stronger focus on exposing students to diverse forms of knowledge. Most notably, a new course called Core Conversations was created. Based on five globally significant “texts,” it lays out the common ground for intellectual discussions within the Colgate community. Core Conversations focus on productive discourse and communal learning among students, encouraging them to engage in perspectives and dialogues beyond the limits of personal experience.Core Collections: This is not a typical museum experience. The gallery has been transformed into a space for open-ended dialogue. Visitors will not find a lot of text interpreting the artworks; rather, we pose a series of questions, designed to elicit individual reflection and initiate discussions across communities, identities, and materials.. The exhibition is organized into four broad areas of inquiry: Appearances, Epistemologies, Urbanism and Labor, and People and Land. We encourage you to engage with the questions provided while viewing the works, and to contribute your insights or your own questions to our interactive space.What will you add to the conversation?Core/Collections is curated by Emma Barrison ’24, Cindy Chen ’24, and Wendy Wu ’25

Academics | Clifford Gallery, Clifford Gallery (101 Little Hall)
2023/2024 Christian A. Johnson Endeavor Foundation Artist-in-Residence jackie sumell and Studio CAJAIR present “The Locker Room.”Artist jackie sumell works at the intersection of social sculpture, abolition and healing. With the principle of abolition always in mind, sumell inhabits the physical materials and architectures of oppression and transforms these physical structures into lived spaces of radical hope.For The Locker Room, a work created especially for Colgate University, sumell worked with a team of students who go by Studio CAJAIR (an anagrammatic nod to the Christian A. Johnson Endeavor Foundation Artist-In-Residence program, which underwrites this work). Together, sumell and Studio CAJAIR spent the academic year considering the relationship between athletics and activism, ultimately recreating the architecture of a locker room to envisage how sports and locker rooms can be horizons of liberation. They ask, “What happens if the locker room becomes public, seeded with the best of its potential? Can we make the lockers themselves altars to the future[s] we wish to see?”sumell and Studio CAJAIR, along with students they invited from Art & Activism (ARTS 132A), transformed 12 lockers into altars to future worlds. They imagine everything from ecological justice, racial equity, and classless societies to happiness after retirement, as wins.The Locker Room is presented by the Art Department and the Christian A. Johnson Foundation. The Christian A. Johnson Endeavor Foundation Artist-in-Residence was established in 1986 as a challenge grant in support of the arts at Colgate. The residency program permits one or more artists to become part of the Colgate community every academic year.Opening reception and gallery talk with jackie sumell and Studio CAJAIR will take place at 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday, March 27.Please note that weekend gallery hours are dependent on the availability of student monitors. If driving a distance, please contact the department at 315-228-7633 during regular working hours to ensure the gallery will be open.Learn more at https://www.cliffordgallery.org/

Academics | Little Hall, Clifford Gallery (101 Little Hall)
In conjunction with The Locker Room exhibition, Colgate’s 2023/2024 Christian A. Johnson Artist-in-Residence jackie sumell, along with Studio CAJAIR, will make The Locker Room accessible to the people, curated by the people, and will get us hyped for the future with biweekly “People’s Pep Talks”, April 3 to May 3.This week's guest coaches are Krisa Verbitsky and Heidi Eakin from the Hamilton Pottery Studio on "Play by Play with Clay."Full lineup available here. All pep talks begin at noon in the Clifford Gallery. Pizza will be served.

Academics | Benton Hall, 213
*New Location*Student research groups will present on topics from their community-based research, regarding Colgate's campus and the Central New York region. (More information of the presenting groups to come.)Vegetarian hot wraps from Hamilton Whole Foods will be served, including vegan, gluten-free, and nut-free options. Please bring your own reusable water bottle.This event will count as 1 credit for the employee Sustainability Passport program. Please submit your attendance after the event in order to earn credit.

Academics | Persson Hall, 209
Chris Barrett of Cornell University will lecture as part of the Colgate University-Hamilton College Economics Seminar Series

Academics | Burke Hall, Burke Lobby
If you’re looking for a quiet space to be productive that’s not the library or your bedroom, join us for our weekly spring study sessions. Drop in anytime to work by yourself, in a group, or with the intention to connect with others.Look forward to treats, study resources, goal setting, and your judgment-free Res Fellow (optional) accountability buddy.All are welcome; Burke will be unlocked regardless of your Common’s affiliation.