Today's Events | Alumni Hall, 2nd Floor
This exhibition, co-curated by Longyear Curatorial Assistant Summer Frazier and Curatorial Intern Raquel Marquez-Guerrero ‘24, explores the different ways that art leverages the creative process to metabolize conflict or aggression. This healing manifests in various forms, ranging from redefining narratives to empathizing with personal or communal losses. These artists, working in media from 2D to 3D to street and graffiti art, intentionally confront discontent, fostering creative growth and finding solutions. In this context, their art becomes a means to process pain and to construct bridges amidst conflict. In addition to art, this exhibition also explores various ways that plants can be used in healing processes.

Today'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

Today'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/

Today's Events | Donovan's Pub
Class of 2024 Night Owls, before you soar off to your next adventure, we invite you to this special owl-pportunity to connect with your community and celebrate your amazing accomplishment. See your friends from your FSEM and dorm hallways in this tradition that commemorates our wonderful community!Please be sure to bring both an official ID and your Gate Card if you are over 21 years old and would like to enjoy champagne. Alcohol-free drinks will also be available for the toast!

Today's Events | Ryan Studio, 212
Event 1: Thursday, May 2, 4:30 PM: Arts and Humanities Colloquium: Play Readings and Performance, Ryan Studio 212, Colgate UniversityEvent 2: Tuesday, May 7, 3-5 PM EDT: Artists in Conversation, Zoom, pre-registration required. Please pre-register here: https://colgate.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Izr4id9tQg6XQ9CFNF2HGw#/registrationPlease join us on May 2nd at 4:30 PM in Ryan Studio 212 for a staged reading performance of new Ukrainian plays in English translation as part of the Worldwide Ukrainian Play Readings project! The event will feature a curated selection of new Ukrainian short plays written since February 24, 2022 by member playwrights of the Theatre of Playwrights in Kyiv, reflecting on their experiences of the ongoing war in their country through a range of theatrical styles. These playwrights' voices demonstrate unique positionalities from artists' perspectives of the war in Ukraine. By presenting these artists' work during the ongoing war in Ukraine, we are able to not only amplify their messages but also support them as working artists, continuing to live in Ukraine.The plays are selected and dramaturgically supported by student dramaturgs (THEA 350), and the performance will feature students from Acting I (THEA 254). Following the performance, the audience will be invited to join in a talkback facilitated by student dramaturgs.Then, on May 7th from 3-5 PM, please join us for an Artists' Talk via Zoom with Nina Zakhozhenko, Maryna Smilianets, and Volodymyr Serdiuk (three of the playwrights whose work will have been performed) as they reflect on their work and their experiences as playwrights continuing to live and work in Ukraine. Pre-registration for this event is required. Please pre-register here:https://colgate.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Izr4id9tQg6XQ9CFNF2HGw#/registrationThese events are presented by Colgate University Theater and Core Communities, and generously co-sponsored by the Departments of Theater, Art, History (The Lester D. Stickles '18 Fund for Military Diplomacy), Philosophy, Religion, and Romance Languages; Programs of Core Communities, Jewish Studies, Peace and Conflict Studies, Russian and Eurasian Studies; the First-Year Seminar Program; The Center for Freedom and Western Civilization; The Robert H. N. Ho Mind, Brain and Behavior Initiative (MBBI); and The Sylvia Ellins Fund for the Teaching and Learning of Diversity.Reach out to Aleksandr Sklyar (avsklyar@colgate.edu) or Rachel Moss (rmoss@colgate.edu) with any questions.We hope to see you there!

Today's Events | Hamilton Public Library
The Upstate Institute at Colgate University will co-host a series with the Cornell Cooperative Extension called MADIdeas.Fourth in the spring series is Food and Nutrition Education in Communities with Angela Odoms-Young.Odoms-Young’s is The Nancy Schlegel Meinig Associate Professor of Maternal and Child Nutrition, director of the Food and Nutrition Education in Communities Program (FNEC) and New York State Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP). In 2021, she joined the Cornell faculty after spending 13 years at the University of Illinois at Chicago in the Department of Kinesiology and Nutrition.Odoms-Young’s research explores the social and structural determinants of dietary behaviors and related health outcomes in low-income populations and black, Indigenous, and people of color. Her work also centers on developing culturally responsive programs and policies that promote health equity, food justice, and community resilience.MAD Ideas brings top thinkers to Madison County from universities and colleges around Central New York to share their “MAD Ideas” and research topics. The lecture series spans a wide variety of topics, including agriculture, youth development, health & ecological sustainability.Register here.