Academics | Little Hall, 205 (Print Studio)
Artist Yang Hongwei (Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing) will lead a free woodcut printing demonstration and workshop in Colgate’s printmaking studio. Designed for participants of all abilities and experience to try their hand at creative expression through art-making in a low-stakes environment. All members of the Colgate and Hamilton communities are invited to participate.This workshop is in collaboration with the Asian Studies Program, Arts Lectures Series, the department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, and Picker Art Gallery. Additional support has been generously provided by the Colgate Arts Council.

Academics | Little Hall, Clifford Gallery (101 Little Hall)
Work by visiting woodcut artist Yang Hongwei (Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing) will be on view during a special pop-up exhibition in conjunction with his visit to Colgate. Other events include a lecture on Nov. 13, and a printmaking workshop on Nov. 16.In collaboration with the Asian Studies Program and Picker Art Gallery

Academics | Bernstein Hall, Experimental Exhibition and Performance Studio
On April 8, 2024, a solar eclipse transited across central New York - its path of totality falling only a few miles from Colgate's campus. Spectating this astronomical phenomenon became a mass social event: nearly a million people flocked to the region.Watch Party, an immersive multi-channel video installation, recreates this event, capturing the scene on the ground rather than the skies.Co-sponsored by Alternative Cinema and Film and Media Studies

Academics | Alumni Hall, 2nd floor
Entangled Intimacies: Tradition, Motion, and Memory is an exhibition inspired by the introductory course of the revised Africana and Latin American Studies curriculum (ALST 199), this exhibition highlights connections among coastal communities of the Atlantic and Pacific. Works from the Caribbean, West Africa, Latin America, and the Pacific Islands feature shared themes of trans-oceanic communication, diasporas, transnationalism, colonialism, and resistance. This exhibition aims to provide space for multiple perspectives through public label submissions (ask a staff member!). Keep coming back, as new labels will be added throughout the semester.This exhibition is curated by Summer Frazier and Rebecca Mendelsohn.

Academics | Picker Art Gallery, Dana Arts Center, 2nd floor
War, Revolution, and the Heart of China, 1937–1948: The Herman Collection of Modern Chinese WoodcutsThis exhibition, an in-depth examination of the modern woodcut movement in the decades leading up to the founding of the People’s Republic of China, will be the first time that one of Picker Art Gallery’s most singular and important collections will be shown in its entirety.The Herman Collection of Modern Chinese Woodcuts contains over 200 works made in China between 1937 and 1948. They were given to The Picker Art Gallery by Professor Emeritus Theodore Herman, who lived in the country during this period, and his wife, Evelyn Mary Chen Shiying Herman. Professor Herman taught at Colgate from 1954 to 1981 in the Geography Department and was the founding director of the Peace and Conflict Studies Program.Coinciding with the 75th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949, the exhibition of the Herman collection is an extraordinary resource for the study of Chinese art and of pre-Liberation history. The prints in the exhibition can be seen as direct links to the historical events taking place in China in the years leading up to Liberation. Images made between 1937 and 1945 in areas controlled by the Chinese Nationalist forces during the Second Sino-Japanese War chronicle the progress of the war and promoted good relations between the army and the people; others, produced in the areas controlled by the Communist Red Army, encourage resistance against the Japanese but also illustrate how Chinese society could be transformed through socialism; those prints produced during the Civil War expose many injustices amid the post-war social and political upheavals. Finally, many of the images in the exhibition explore wide-ranging subjects and a variety of techniques that offer glimpses into quotidian Chinese life during this period.This exhibition is curated by Leslie Ann Eliet.

Academics | Hamilton Theater
The Center for Freedom and Western Civilization will host a film screening of “Erase the Nation” followed by a Q&A with the film's creator, Tomasz Grzywaczewski, at 7 p.m. Monday, Nov. 18 at the Hamilton Theater, 7 Lebanon St. There is no cost for the film screening and the community is welcome to attend.Tomasz Grzywaczewski is a war journalist, non-fiction writer, and documentary filmmaker, with a focus on Central and Eastern Europe.He has been serving as a correspondent for the Chief Evening News Service on Polish public television (TVP1) reporting from Ukraine’s frontline. He has also been reporting from various conflict zones since 2015, including the war in Donbas, Turkish Kurdistan, and Nagorno Karabakh. Grzywaczewski has collaborated with various media outlets, including CBS News and Foreign Policy.Grzywaczewski is the author of the award-winning books: “The Erased Border” dedicated to the people who formed the multinational mosaic of the Second Polish Republic, “The Borders of Dreams”, devoted to the post-soviet unrecognized states, “Life and Death on the Dead Road” and “Across the Wild East” about extreme expeditions to Siberia.An expert in transatlantic relationships, he collaborates with various think tanks and research institutes. He completed a Certificate in Russian Security Studies at the Daniel Morgan Graduate School of National Security in Washington, D.C., and has spoken at institutions such as Georgetown University, Atlantic Council in Washington, D.C., and The Explorers Club in New York City.His recent documentary, "Erase the Nation", has been screened at international forums such as OSCE and UNESCO, as well as in cities worldwide. He has also directed and written scripts for the films including, “Belarus: Awakening” on the struggle of the Belarusian people against the dictatorship, and “Lithuania: In the Shadow of the Tower” about the heroism of Lithuanian people who restored their independence in 1990.