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Celebrate Juneteenth 5K – Run, Walk or Roll!

The Second Annual Juneteenth 5K Run, Walk and Roll will take place on Tuesday, June 17. Sign-in is at 8 a.m. at the East Gym parking lot, with an 8:30 a.m. start.

This year, the 5K will be professionally timed for runners, with an option for walkers and other participants who don’t wish to be timed. The race is open to the general public, and all participants will receive a t-shirt and medal. Participants must register in advance; the $15 registration fee is all-inclusive. Water and light refreshments will be provided.

Binghamton University will host the 2024 America East Softball Championship from May 7–10 at the Bearcats Sports Complex. As the No. 1 seed, Binghamton enters the tournament at the top of the standings and will begin play in the second round on Thursday, May 8 at 11 a.m. Come out and cheer on the Bearcats as they compete for a conference title on their home field! Tickets are available at binghamtonbearcats.com/tickets 

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

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 a Women’s History Month tour highlighting women artists and subjects found in the Monuments exhibition on March 27 at 5:00PM in the Main Gallery. All events are free and open to the public.

The Harriet Tubman Center for Freedom and Equity in partnership with the Binghamton University Art Museum present Harriet Tubman sculptor, Zoe Dufour, Artist Talk and Reception beginning at 5:00 p.m. on Monday, March 24, 2025 in the Main Gallery of the Binghamton University Art Museum.

The Harriet Tubman Center for Freedom and Equity at Binghamton University will unveil a statue of Tubman during a special event at 11 a.m. Friday, March 21, at the Binghamton University Downtown Center, 67 Washington St., Binghamton. The statue will be located at Tubman’s marker along the Downtown Binghamton Freedom Trail, a public trail denoting Underground Railroad stops and other anti-slavery and civil rights sites. This event and the accompanying talk on March 24 are free and open to the public.

To RSVP for the unveiling, visit https://tinyurl.com/HTCstatue. For more information, visit the Tubman Center website.

 

Zoe Dufour, a figurative sculptor based in New York City, designed the bronze statue. In 2023, Dufour’s design was selected – with feedback from the public – from a short list of five finalists. Dufour said the project was a “dream” for her and is grateful to have been able to bring the sculpture to Binghamton. 

“It is an incredible honor to commemorate an individual like Harriet Tubman,” said Dufour. “I want to spend my career sculpting individuals like her, that show us the best parts of humanity. She championed for rights and freedom against what must have felt like unassailable odds and was successful beyond what was imagined possible. She still captivates us today. Her story transcends time and is a reminder to hold hope hand in hand with action, rather than to give into despair.”

Zoe Dufour Artist Talk and Reception is an event in coordination with the Binghamton University Art Museum’s Spring 2025 exhibition, Monuments: Commemoration and Controversy organized by the New York Historical.

For details on upcoming BUAM programming, see our “Events” page on the BUAM website and social media.

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 PoetsColorado ReviewCleaverEcoTheo ReviewNorth 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 ReviewThe 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! 🎉