Campus Life | 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.

Campus Life | Chapel House, Meditation Space
Please join us for guided meditation from 4:15 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. No experience required.

Campus Life | Case-Geyer Library, Flex Room
The music of duo Ken Filiano (bass, composition) and Andrea Wolper (vocals, composition) moves along an expansive continuum, joyfully enfolding jazz traditions, spontaneous composition, and spoken word. Embracing conventional and unconventional approaches to their respective instruments, their focus is always on bringing the musical moment to life.When the duo met on stage, there was an immediate musical connection. Over time, their partnership grew, and the couple married in 2003. Living in Brooklyn, New York, they both work as leaders of their own projects, and collaborate with artists across a variety of genres.Ken is a highly sought-after bass player for jazz, tango, poetry, experimental, improvisational, and classical projects. He also leads two quartets, Quantum Entanglements and Baudolino's Dilemma, and co-leads several groups, including the Steve Adams/Ken Filiano Duo, Lerner-Grassi-Filiano, and TrioPlex (Cooper-Moore, Michael TA Thompson, Ken Filiano), and was half of Double Duo with the late Jay Clayton. His extensive discography includes hundreds of recordings with a who’s who in jazz and improvised music, as well as a solo bass CD, "subvenire" (NineWinds), and "Dreams From a Clown Car" (Clean Feed), featuring his quartet. For these and numerous other recordings and performances, critics have called Ken a "creative virtuoso," a "master of technique"... "a paradigm of the kind of artist... who can play anything in any context and make it work, simply because he puts the music first and leaves peripheral considerations behind."Described as “an audacious artist who flouts genre limitations,” Andrea has headlined in top venues in New York city (Dizzy’s Club, the Blue Note, Birdland, and many more), and beyond. Reviewers have called her most recent album, "Wanderlust" (Moonflower Music), “magnificent,” “truly exceptional,” “an early candidate for year-end ‘Best Of’ lists.” Andrea herself has been praised as a “brilliant musical storyteller,” “exquisitely masterful,” “expressive and flawless in her phrasing.” She has also been noted as “a terrific arranger” and “superior” songwriter, and has been awarded a number of composing residencies. In addition to leading her own jazz and jazz-adjacent projects, Andrea has performed and recorded for artists from the straight ahead Heavenly Big Band to free jazz icon William Parker (including appearing on his epic recording, “Migration of Silence Into and Out of the Tone World”).The music of duo Ken Filiano (bass, composition) and Andrea Wolper (vocals, composition) moves along an expansive continuum, joyfully enfolding jazz traditions, spontaneous composition, and spoken word. Embracing conventional and unconventional approaches to their respective instruments, their focus is always on bringing the musical moment to life.When the duo met on stage, there was an immediate musical connection. Over time, their partnership grew, and the couple married in 2003. Living in Brooklyn, New York, they both work as leaders of their own projects, and collaborate with artists across a variety of genres.Ken is a highly sought-after bass player for jazz, tango, poetry, experimental, improvisational, and classical projects. He also leads two quartets, Quantum Entanglements and Baudolino's Dilemma, and co-leads several groups, including the Steve Adams/Ken Filiano Duo, Lerner-Grassi-Filiano, and TrioPlex (Cooper-Moore, Michael TA Thompson, Ken Filiano), and was half of Double Duo with the late Jay Clayton. His extensive discography includes hundreds of recordings with a who’s who in jazz and improvised music, as well as a solo bass CD, "subvenire" (NineWinds), and "Dreams From a Clown Car" (Clean Feed), featuring his quartet. For these and numerous other recordings and performances, critics have called Ken a "creative virtuoso," a "master of technique"... "a paradigm of the kind of artist... who can play anything in any context and make it work, simply because he puts the music first and leaves peripheral considerations behind."Described as “an audacious artist who flouts genre limitations,” Andrea has headlined in top venues in New York city (Dizzy’s Club, the Blue Note, Birdland, and many more), and beyond. Reviewers have called her most recent album, "Wanderlust" (Moonflower Music), “magnificent,” “truly exceptional,” “an early candidate for year-end ‘Best Of’ lists.” Andrea herself has been praised as a “brilliant musical storyteller,” “exquisitely masterful,” “expressive and flawless in her phrasing.” She has also been noted as “a terrific arranger” and “superior” songwriter, and has been awarded a number of composing residencies. In addition to leading her own jazz and jazz-adjacent projects, Andrea has performed and recorded for artists from the straight ahead Heavenly Big Band to free jazz icon William Parker (including appearing on his epic recording, “Migration of Silence Into and Out of the Tone World”).

Campus Life | 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

Campus Life | Chapel House, Meditation Space
Please join us for morning guided meditation from 8:30 a.m. to 8:45 a.m. Monday to Friday.No experience required.

Campus Life | 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.