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, 201
Scholarly work has always shaped public discourse in formative ways; however, shifting conversations about the role of intellectuals in public life, about the democratization of expertise, and about new digital platforms have created a dynamic topography from which to consider knowledge and research.Avery Trufelman, critically acclaimed host of, most-recently, Articles of Interest (named one of the best podcasts of the year by The New Yorker), will lead this lunch session for staff and faculty about how she thinks about podcasting as a genre and tool for storytelling, scholarship, and pedagogy. Trufelman will facilitate a pragmatic space for us to consider the role of audio in our classrooms as texts, assignments, and sites of departure.To help us plan for an appropriate amount of food, we kindly ask you to register for this event.

Academics | Burke Hall, Burke Lobby
Join Brown Commons and Crafter’s Club for an afternoon study break! During each session, we’ll provide you with supplies and guidance for completing a new fun craft. No experience needed and all are welcome to join; the first floor doors to the Burke Lobby will be unlocked until 5:30 p.m.Feel free to bring a craft of your choice during any of the sessions, if desired.Upcoming craft sessions:Apr. 25: Paint your own pottery with Village Clay

Academics | Little Hall
Thursday, April 11, 4:30pm in 114 Little HallGuest Lecturer: Avery Trufelman, host of Articles of InterestTitle: Everyday Performance: How History, Politics, and Culture Shape What We Wear and How We Wear it.How does one dress "normal," and how is public behavior regulated by clothing? Avery Trufelman, the host and creator of the fashion podcast Articles of Interest will talk about what constitutes "classic" or "style-less" dressing, by discussing the way that history, politics, and culture determine trend cycles.Bio: Avery Trufelman is the host and creator of the fashion podcast Articles of Interest, which was just named one of the best podcasts of 2024 by The New Yorker and has recently been named one of the 500 most important people in fashion by the trade journal The Business of Fashion. Before that, she covered architecture as a longtime producer at the design podcast 99% Invisible, and spent a stint at New York Magazine, where she hosted the podcast for The Cut.Part of Colgate University's Arts, Creativity, and Innovation series with support from the Center for Learning, Teaching, and Research; the Colgate Arts Council; the Department of Educational Studies; the Divisions of Arts & Humanities, Social Sciences, and University Studies; the Office of Entrepreneurship and Innovation; and the program in Film and Media Studies

Academics | Ho Science Center, 101
The Spring 2024 MBBI Lecture - The i-Frame and the s-Frame: How Focusing on Individual-Level Solutions Has Led Behavioral Public Policy Astray - will be given by George Loewenstein (Carnegie Mellon, Economics and Psychology).Many behavioral scientists propose and test policy interventions that seek to ‘fix’ problems with individual behavior (adopting an “i-frame”) rather than addressing the system in which individuals operate (an “s-frame”). The impact of such i-frame interventions has been disappointing and can reduce support for much-needed systemic reforms. Highlighting individual responsibility for societal problems is a long-established objective of corporate opponents of s-frame policies such as regulation and taxation. Thus, researchers advocating i-frame solutions may have unwittingly promoted the interests of the opponents of systemic change. Behavioral scientists can best contribute to public policy by employing their skills to develop and implement value-creating system-level change.