The Binghamton University Department of Art and Design will host its Ninth Annual 24-Hour Draw-a-thon from 10a.m., February 21 to 10 a.m., Saturday, February 22, in the Fine Arts Building, room 358. For the second year, the Department of Art and Design’s Student Advisory Committee will host this competitive marathon with the addition of a non-perishable food drive. This event is free and open to the public. 10 student-artists will participate in creating large-scale drawings that capture an ornate still-life arrangement in the round. The artists will be at work for the duration of the marathon (with short breaks) and visitors may observe the artists working throughout the 24-hour period.
Two cash prizes will be awarded to participating student-artists; the jury prize of $500, and the people’s prize of $250.00. While the jury prize will be determined by a small handful of Binghamton University School of the Arts faculty, the people’s prize will be determined by votes casted by the public.
In addition to these prizes, a third prize, comprised of a basket of art supplies purchased from the Binghamton University Art Co-op by the Department of Art & Design, will also be awarded to a participating student. All 10 participating students will receive goods donated by one of this year’s sponsors – Golden Artist Colors, the paint manufacturing company local to New Berlin, New York, known for specializing in their production of high-quality painting products. Additional Sponsors include Binghamton University’s Harpur Edge, School of the Arts, and Art Co-Op.
Stop by to support the students, see the work being made, cast a vote for people’s prize and place a donation!
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.
Poets Nathan Lipps and Leah Umansky read their poetry and discuss their work and careers with the gathered audience. Free and open to the public.
Nathan Lipps is the author of the poetry collection Built Around the Fire and the chapbook the Body as Passage. Born and raised along the rural coast of western Michigan, he currently lives in Ohio and works as an Assistant Professor at Central State University. His work has been published in the Best New Poets, Colorado Review, Cleaver, EcoTheo Review, North American Review, and elsewhere.
Leah Umansky is the author of three poetry collections, including her most recent book, Of Tyrant. She earned her MFA in Poetry at Sarah Lawrence College and has curated and hosted the COUPLET Reading Series in New York City since 2011. Her creative work has been featured in The American Poetry Review, The New York Times, Poem-a-Day from the Academy of American Poets, Poetry magazine, and elsewhere.
🌟🦃 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! 🎉
Talk with filmmaker, Caleb G. Abrams
Wednesday, November 6, 6:30pm, LH 6
Caleb G. Abrams (Onöndowa’ga:’, Wolf Clan) will show and discuss his recent short film Haudenosaunee: People of the Longhouse, and his ongoing project The Burning of My Coldspring Home. An excerpt from the latter is on view in the Binghamton University Art Museum current exhibition, Homelands: Contemporary Haudenosaunee Art Across New York.
Special thanks to the Binghamton University Cinema Department. This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.
Get ready for #ONEBinghamton Madness, the ultimate event to kick off the Binghamton University basketball season! Join us for an action-packed night featuring the introduction of our Men’s and Women’s basketball teams and coaches, exciting spirit performances, fan contests, giveaways, and free Binghamton Basketball stickers. Plus, we’ll be introducing all of Binghamton’s athletic teams throughout the evening!
This family-friendly event is perfect for fans of all ages to come together and celebrate Binghamton athletics. Best of all, it’s free to attend, with concessions available for purchase, making it a fun and affordable outing for everyone!
Musical reminiscences and reflections from Spain, Italy, Greece, Turkey, and the Levant culminate in the world premiere of Rumor Mill by Palestinian-Jordanian-Canadian composer Dr. Shireen Abu-Khader. STSC will be joined in this performance by the Vestal Voices choir from Vestal High School and the Binghamton University Chamber Singers.
The Binghamton Center for Writers of the Creative Writing Program of the Department of English, General Literature and Rhetoric is thrilled to welcome Eugenia Leigh, a critically acclaimed author, to Binghamton University for a reading and conversation! Leigh speaks to any reader interested in exploring gender, trauma, mental health, family life, and the human condition.
Eugenia Leigh is a Korean American poet and the author of two collections of poetry, Bianca, (Four Way Books, March 2023) and Blood, Sparrows and Sparrows (Four Way Books, 2014), winner of the Late Night Library’s 2015 Debut-litzer Prize in Poetry, selected by Arisa White, as well as a finalist for both the National Poetry Series and the Yale Series of Younger Poets. Her poems and essays have appeared in numerous publications, including The Atlantic, The Nation, Guernica, Poetry, Ploughshares, Poetry Northwest, Tahoma Literary Review, The Massachusetts Review, Waxwing, the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day, the Best New Poets anthology, and the Best of the Net anthology. Poems from Bianca were awarded Poetry magazine’s 2021 Bess Hokin Prize and received Special Mention in the 2023 Pushcart Prize Anthology.
Binghamton University and the Vestal Historical Society invite you to the Annual Haudenosaunee Festival at Binghamton University October 17-19, 2024. This event is open to the general public!
In the spirit of the Two Row Wampum—Gä•sweñta’ or The Silver Covenant Chain of Friendship the program will feature the university’s Haudenosaunee neighbors that have called New York home for time immemorial. The festival begins Thursday, October 17 at 5pm with a conversation with Haudenosaunee artists in combination with the exhibit Homelands: Contemporary Haudenosaunee Art Across New York. On Friday, October 18 at 11am join us for the Harvest of the Three Sisters Garden in the Science 1 courtyard. Later, at 1 pm Chris Thomas and Smoke Dancers will be performing on the Peace Quad. Haudenosaunee vendors will be on the Peace Quad from 11am-5pm Friday. On Saturday, October 19, join us from 10am-5pm on the Peace Quad for a stellar line up of members of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. The day will include music, dance, food samples, videos, lectures, and art and crafts vendors. At 10:30am there will be a special lacrosse clinic for youth (meet on the Peace Quad).
11am Harvest of Three Sisters Garden – Science 1 courtyard
11am-5pm Haudenosaunee vendors – Peace Quad
1-2pm Chris Thomas and Smoke Dancers – Peace Quad Saturday October 19, 2024
10am Opening Thanksgiving Blessing – Peace Quad
10:30am Youth Lacrosse Clinic – meet on the Peace Quad, move to CIW turf
10:30am-5:00pm Food, Arts, Lectures, Crafts, Vendors – Peace Quad
Open Research Day is a chance to lean more about the research being done at the Psychology Department at Binghamton University! Visitors will receive a guided tour through the labs and also have the chance to visit a mock magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner to learn how this technology is used in research. There is free parking available in Lot C at BU, and there will be refreshments and a raffle giveaway!