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Honoring the spirit of past Colgate traditions, we invite you to a new rhythm of gathering together for sacred pause and brief encounters with the diverse religions, spiritual, and secular practices represented in our collective community. Join us for 15 minutes of music, a reading or prayer, and brief reflection. Light refreshments will be served.
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- Apr 1710:00 AMExhibition: Core/Collections: Let's Talk About ItToday's Events | 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 - Apr 1710:30 AMThe Locker RoomToday's Events | 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/ - Apr 1712:00 PMThe People's Pep Talks: Sarah NaharToday's Events | 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 coach is Sarah Nahar, PhD candidate at Syracuse University and SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, on "Dealing with Our Crap, Literally and Metaphorically."Full lineup available here. All pep talks begin at noon in the Clifford Gallery. Pizza will be served. - Apr 173:00 PMDesign Daze: AI Driven Video Post-ProductionToday's Events | Case-Geyer Library, Digital Media Learning Center (DLMC) - 5th Floor
Experience the future of video post-production with AI. Join us to explore After Effects and cutting-edge AI tools that add a touch of magic to your videos, making editing an effortless and creative journey! - Apr 174:00 PMA Literary "Walk in the Woods"Today's Events | Lathrop Hall, English Department Lounge - 3rd Floor
Thoreau once wrote “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.” For centuries, the natural world has provided inspiration for writers of every age. In celebration of Earth Day, join the English Department and Office of Sustainability for an open reading on any and all literature that engages with the environment. All are invited to come read or to simply sit back and enjoy the refreshments and readings of others!Light refreshments will be served.This event is part of the Office of Sustainability’s 13 Days of Green series leading up to Earth Day on April 22. View the 2024 13 Days of Green schedule. - Apr 174:00 PMInternational Student Graduation CeremonyToday's Events | Merrill House
Congratulations, Class of 2024 – please join us to celebrate your accomplishments!Refreshments from Michael's, and rainbow cake will be served.Bring guests!