Today's Events | Picker Art Gallery, Dana Arts Center, 2nd floor
A Thought Is A Thread: Contemporary Artists Reworking Textile TraditionsMetaphors using the language of textiles are part of everyday idiomatic English: we follow threads on social media; storytellers weave tales or spin fantastic yarns; friend groups might be close-knit and and we might tie ourselves in knots trying to navigate complex situations. The history of textiles is intimately tied to the development of human societies. Weaving is at the same time one of the earliest human technological advancements, the foundation upon which modern industrial nations were built, and the basis for the computing revolution.A Thought Is A Thread brings together works by leading artists who investigate what textiles can still reveal about people and their relationships to each other, to themselves, and to language, land, and the future. Artworks by Faig Ahmed, Sanford Biggers, Diedrick Brackens, Melissa Cody, Suzanne Husky, Joy Ray, and Jordan Nassar present intertwining narratives that both cherish and complicate the web of meanings that emerge when traditional textile arts are given contemporary expression.Debuting at our opening, Picker Art Gallery welcomes members of the Colgate community to partake in Yarnival, a collaborative art experience. Yarnival will be on view and available for participation during the exhibition run of A Thought is a Thread, through May 18, 2025, in the upper atrium of the Dana Arts Center. Please stay tuned to our social media channels and website for more details on how to participate.A Thought Is A Thread is partially supported by funding from The Friends of Picker Art Gallery.

Today's Events | Little Hall, Clifford Gallery (101 Little Hall)
Through an ongoing series of community conversations, artist and architect Suchi Reddy has been in dialog with students, faculty, staff, and townspeople throughout the 2024-2025 academic year to learn about the ways in which our encounters with reflection and misreflection in physical and digital spaces contribute to our experience of bias and belonging. A culmination of the year's conversations, Bias and Belonging poetically reframes the Colgate community's embodied experience of belonging in woven, textual and digital forms. Bias and Belonging is the latest iteration of Reddy's ongoing exploration into embodied states of being that reflect our individual and collective experience as we code switch and transform in evolving environments both digital and physical.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.*Please note: Weekend hours are dependent on the availability of student monitors. If driving a distance, please contact the department (315-228-7633), during regular working hours, to ensure the gallery will be open. The gallery is not open during university breaks and holidays.

Today's Events
Are you taking advantage of LinkedIn Learning? All Colgate faculty, staff, and students have access to LinkedIn Learning, an online library of thousands of courses and videos covering business, creative, and technical skills for learners at all levels. (LinkedIn Learning was formerly known as Lynda.com.) New content is added weekly! You can learn what you want when you want it from your laptop, tablet, or phone. This workshop will show you how to navigate LinkedIn Learning, search for topics, create a collection, and more. This session will take place as a Zoom meeting. Participants will receive the link to join the meeting via their confirmation email.

Today's Events | Shaw Wellness Institute, Lounge
Come and take a break with therapy dogs at Shaw Wellness!

Today's Events | The Coop – O'Connor Campus Center, Media Room
LOCATION CHANGE: Coop Media RoomKick off the Office of Sustainability’s 13 Days of Green series on the Academic Quad with a celebration of sustainability at Colgate. Enjoy the warmth of spring while meeting members of Colgate organizations focused on sustainability and environmental issues. Tabling organizations or topics include:Sustainability Graduation PledgeOutdoor EducationSTEM/Sustainability Career AdvisorsSustainability Representatives (S-Reps)After you visit tables from campus partners to learn how to get involved, you can listen to live music, play lawn games and grab a Maxwell’s ice cream cone for a low-waste treat! Vegan and gluten-free options available.We can’t wait to see you there!This event is part of the Office of Sustainability’s 13 Days of Green series leading up to Earth Day. View all events here.Rain Location: Coop Media Room

Today's Events | Lawrence Hall, 105, The Robert Ho Lecture Room
Join us for a lecture from Kieran Setiya, Peter de Florez Professor and Philosophy Department Head at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.Despite its conventional association with philosophy, the question of life’s meaning is often dismissed as nonsense by contemporary philosophers — or replaced with questions about meaningful lives — and for most earlier philosophers, the question doesn’t arise. In this talk, Setiya will use the surprisingly recent origins of “the meaning of life” to explain what it could be. Drawing on a Romantic tradition in which the human future stands in for eschatology, Setiya will argue that life could have a secular meaning, one that depends on progress towards justice, and thus depends on us.Sponsored by The Elias J. and Rosa Lee Nemir Audi Lecture Fund