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
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 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.
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All events are free and open to the public.