Composer Antonin Dvořák came from Europe to America in the 1890s, where he met Native Americans and fell in love with their music. Tonight’s program has music by both Dvořák and a Native American composer, Boyd Eagle, who happens to be Maestro Daniel Hege’s grandfather! Come to a free, age-appropriate chat on cross-cultural musical mashups with Dr. Julia Grella O’Connell, the Philharmonic’s Director of Education and Community Engagement. Do a music-inspired craft, learn a Bohemian folk dance, and hear the Philharmonic rehearse! Free for children 4-16 and their caregivers.
Family Symphony Session: Echoes of the Land
Binghamton University’s Festival of the Arts is a vibrant student showcase featuring performances, creative work, screenings, research, and hands-on experiences — all from the School of the Arts!
Free and open to the public.
It all kicks off on Wednesday, May 7, from 7:30–9:30 p.m. in the Grand Corridor and Memorial Courtyard of the Fine Arts Building. Enjoy live music, performances, food and refreshments, cinema in a truck, DIY screen-printed t-shirts, building projections, and more — both inside and out. It’s the perfect way to relax after classes and before finals.
The festivities continue on Friday, May 9, at 3 p.m., with performances, screenings, and exhibitions throughout the Arts Building – as well as Cinema’s offerings in Lecture Hall 6!
For detailed schedule and latest updates please visit: https://www.binghamton.edu/school-of-the-arts/news-events/showcase.html
The Binghamton University Art Museum presents Monuments: Commemoration and Controversy, organized by The New York Historical, on view February 27 to June 14, 2025. The exhibition explores public monuments and their representations as points of debate over national identity, politics, and race. Monuments offers a historical foundation for understanding recent controversies, featuring fragments of a torn-down statue of King George III, a replica of a bulldozed monument by Harlem Renaissance sculptor Augusta Savage, and a maquette of New York City’s first public monument to a Black woman (Harriet Tubman), among other objects. The exhibition reveals how monument-making and monument-breaking have long shaped American life as public statues have been celebrated, attacked, protested, altered, and removed.
Monuments: Commemoration and Controversy is curated by Wendy Nālani E. Ikemoto, Vice President and Chief Curator at The New York Historical. The exhibition is supported by the Terra Foundation for American Art. Additional support is provided at Binghamton University by the Office of the Provost, the Division of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, the Harpur College Dean’s Office, the Binghamton Fund for Excellence, the Kaschak Institute for Social Justice for Women and Girls, and Rebecca Moshief and Harris Tilevitz ’78.
Also opening in the Mezzanine Gallery is Existential Color: Photography from the Permanent Collection, organized by John Tagg, SUNY Distinguished Professor of Art History and Luisa Casella, Photograph Conservator, Fellow of American Institute for Conservation. In 1976, John Szarkowski, Director of the Department of Photography at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, hailed the arrival of a “new generation of color photographers” who saw color as “existential,” “as though the world itself existed in color.” This “new generation” included William Eggleston, Stephen Shore and Joel Meyerowitz, whose work here prompts a wider re-examination of color in Binghamton University Art Museum’s photographs collection. Within this exhibition, which features works made between the mid 1970s and the early 2000s, a display of historical processes dating back to the mid-nineteenth century shows that color was an integral part of photographic expression from its very beginnings. What viewers are asked is whether Szarkowski’s notion of a decisive break holds up, or whether the question of color and photography has to be seen from a much longer and broader historical perspective.
In the Museum’s Lower Galleries, three small exhibitions open: Chiura Obata: Japanese Art in America, curated by Yao Shen He ’27; History and Myth: Violence in Early Modern Prints, curated by Leah Dascoli ’26; and Japanese Design and the Arts and Crafts Movement in New York, curated by Joseph Leach, Curator of Collections and Exhibitions.
For details on upcoming programming, see our “Events” page and social media.
All events are free and open to the public.
🌟🦃 Join Us for the NoMa x Binghamton University Thanksgiving Craft Mock Market! 🎨✨
Get ready for a fun-filled afternoon where creativity meets the spirit of Thanksgiving! On November 16th, from 4 PM to 6 PM at 30 Main St, kids will have the chance to unleash their artistic talents! 🎉👧👦
🖌️ Craft Workshops: Children will learn how to create their own unique crafts, perfect for the holiday season! From festive decorations to handmade gifts, the possibilities are endless! 🧡🖍️
🛍️ Mock Market: This is a fantastic opportunity to practice entrepreneurship while having fun!🏷️💰
🎁 Fun for Everyone: Bring the whole family! Enjoy holiday-themed activities, delicious snacks, and the chance to support our young crafters!
✨ Let’s make this a Thanksgiving to remember filled with creativity, joy, and community spirit! Don’t miss out on the fun!
Save the date and see you there! 🎉
Join Director of Education and Community Engagement Dr. Julia Grella O’Connell for a free, informal chat about the continuing relevance and importance of the art form.
Binghamton University’s School of the Arts will hold its inaugural Student Showcase, a three-day festival of the arts, from May 1-3, with the main showcase on Friday, May 3. All events are free and open to the public, and will take place on campus in the Fine Arts Building, unless noted otherwise.
The first-time festival will spotlight student creations, research and performances. Enjoy creative work and research from Art and Design, Art History, Binghamton University Art Museum, Cinema, Creative Writing, Music, and Theatre. Offerings will include musical and dance performances, talks, readings, art exhibitions, screenings and hands-on demonstrations.
Full schedule is available here: https://www.binghamton.edu/school-of-the-arts/news-events/showcase.html
Everything I’ve Never Said
April 4 – April 18, 2024
Opening on Thursday, April 4, 4:30 – 6:30 pm
Artist talks on Monday, April 8, 4:30 – 6:30 pm
The fifteen graduating Binghamton University Art & Design BFA students will feature their works in the exhibition Everything I’ve Never Said. The exhibition opens to the public April 4th, with an opening reception at 4:30 pm, and will remain on view until April 18th. Artist talks will take place Monday, April 8th at 4:30 pm. All events are free and open to the public.
This exhibition represents the culmination of their BFA degree program and features artworks spanning multiple disciplines, including painting, drawing, graphic design, printmaking, sculpture, game design, video installation, and more. Everything I’ve Never Said is an ode to life’s unspoken moments and a celebration of art’s ability to materialize the experiences, emotions, and personal narratives of the participating artists. It is also an invitation to viewers to explore themes of introspection, reflection, and self-discovery, as each artist confronts the unspoken and finds solace in the act of creation.
Binghamton University’s Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) is a pre-professional degree with an intensive focus in studio art and design for students who wish to pursue arts-related careers. Our students go on to work in a wide range of creative industries; as practicing artists after graduation; or go on to pursue graduate degrees. Students can choose to concentrate in Drawing, Painting, Sculpture, Photography, Printmaking, or Graphic Design.
The 2024 BFA artists are: Zoe Congdon, Anna Faulkner, Gabriella Harbord, Jade Kirdahy, Santa Barbara Maslar, Atlas Mason, Giovanna Mitchell, Em O’Brien, Santiago Parra, Addy Phoenix, Fahim Rahman, Caitlin Smith, Fiona Sullivan, Alexa Valadez, and Samantha Velasquez-Ballin.
Art critic Walter Pater stated that “All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.” Director of Education and Community Engagement Dr. Julia Grella O’Connell gives an informal talk about music iconography, the depiction of music and music-making in the visual arts.
Dr. Julia Grella O’Connell, Director of Education and Community Engagement, explores the history of “binder’s volumes” — collections of sheet music that were treasured by girls and women in the nineteenth century — and the ways they functioned as bearers of memory. She will be showing volumes from her own collection.