Past Events

• Inaugural Student Showcase: A Three-day Festival of the Arts
  Binghamton University’s School of the Arts held its inaugural Student Showcase this spring on the University campus – a three-day Festival of the Arts.
  
  May 1, 2024
  • Hub New Music  and the Binghamton University Chamber Singers 
    World premiere of Unasked-for Ode by graduate students Hannah Carr-Murphy (Creative Writing) and Wen Wen Van Der Wende (Music). Featuring new works by Binghamton composers.
    (Ensemble-in-Residence, sponsored by the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation)
    7:30–9 p.m. | Casadesus Recital Hall

May 2, 2024

• • The New Lyric: Featuring opera arias performed by student vocalists and new songs from the collaboration between the Department of Music and Creative Writing Program 1:20–2:30 p.m. | Casadesus Recital Hall — or outdoors if weather permits
  • BU Steel Drum Band
    4:30-5:30 p.m. | Peace Quad near Fine Arts Building moved to The Spine, near John Arthur Cafe
  • BUAM Intern Showcase
    5-7 p.m. | Outside of the BU Art Museum Main Gallery
  • Harpur Studio Jazz Band
    7:30–9 p.m. | Casadesus Recital Hall
  • Film Truck - Cinema Students Showcase
    7:30-9 p.m. | Parked in front of the Library Tower
  • Cinema Student Projection
    8:30–9:30 p.m.  | Bartle Library Tower (outdoor event weather permiting)

May 3, 2024

• • Art History Student Presentations
    Noon–1 p.m. | BU Art Museum: Lower Galleries, Kenneth C. Lindsay Room (light refreshments)
  • Film Truck - Cinema Students Showcase
    Noon–3 p.m. | Parked in front of the Library Tower
  • Student Film Show
    3 p.m. | LH-6
  • Hub New Music: Performances with students from the Department of Music (Ensemble-in-Residence, sponsored by the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation)
    4 p.m. | Casadesus Recital Hall
  • Pedal Powered Theater: A collaboration between Engineering and Theatre with Nate Wheatley and Tommy Iafrate
    4–5:30 p.m. | Studio A
  • Music & Theatre Reception
    4:30-7p.m. | Outside of Watters Theater (light refreshments)
  • Theater Pit Orchestra class recital
    4:30-5:30 p.m. | FA 111
  • BUAM Artist-in-Residence Presentations
    5–5:30 p.m. | BU Art Museum: Lower Galleries, Kenneth C. Lindsay Room
  • Student Showcase Reception: Light refreshments*
    5–7 p.m. | Memorial Courtyard & Grand Corridor
    *Co-sponsored by the Advancing Binghamton Team
  • Hands-on Silkscreen Demo: Print some new School of the Arts Graphics created by student Ellie Borzilleri onto your own T-shirt or Hoodie
    5–7 p.m. | Memorial Courtyard 
  • Art+Design BA Exhibition
    5–7 p.m. | Rosefsky Gallery
  • Art+Design Departmental Awards Ceremony
    6 p.m. | Rosefsky Gallery
  • Art+Design Open Studios
    5–7 p.m. | Throughout 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Floors
  • Film Truck - Cinema Students Showcase
    5–7 p.m. | Parked in front of the Library Tower
  • Cinema Screening
    5–6 p.m. | John Arthur Café
  • Poet’s Cafe: A Creative Writing Poetry Reading, hosted by Director of Creative Writing, Tina Chang & Professor Joe Weil
    6–8 p.m. | John Arthur Café
  • Dance Highlights from Spring 2024: Great dance highlights of the season from both students and faculty and across genres
    6 - 6:45 p.m. | Watters Theater
  • Musical Theatre Voice Recital: Students from the BFA in Musical Theatre will be performing their final projects
    6 p.m. onwards | Studio B
• SOAR & CMENAS: Calligraphy Workshop with Nana Odeh
  4/26/24 - 4/27/24
• Tips for the Real World
  4/18/24 | UU133A

• Undergrad Mixer - Cinema
  3/15/24 | LH B89

• Exhibitions:

  • Senior BA Exhibition
    5/3/24 - 5/10/24

  • Senior BFA Exhibition "Everything I’ve Never Said"
    4/1/24 - 4/18/24

  • Zahara Gómez: "Treasures"
    3/25/24-3/29/24

  • Andrew Johnson: "Assessment"
    1/25/24-2/22/24 | Rosefsky Gallery 
• ART AND DESIGN | BU ART MUSEUM | CREATIVE WRITING | MATERIAL + VISUAL WORLDS
  
  • Sasha Stile’s Exhibition: Artificial Intelligence: Are You Ready for the Future? Poetry and Art in the Posthuman Age
    3/11/24-3/21/24
  • Poetry Reading from “Technelegy” and Book Signing by Sasha Stiles
    3/13/24
  • AI and Creativity: Debates and Applications panel discussion hosted by Leslie Heywood with Sasha Stiles, Gregory Hallenbeck, and Christopher Swift
    3/14/24
• Drawathon (24h drawing marathon)
  2/16/24 - 2/17/24

Art History

• VizCult series 

  • Jessica Maratsos
    5/1/24

  • Denva Gallant (Ferber Lecture)
    4/10/24
  • Deniz Türker “The Last Ottoman Palace: Istanbul’s Hills, Romantic Gardens and Flat Packs” (Rutgers University, Art History Department)
    3/27/24
  • Christopher Nygren “Toward an Ecology of Early Modern Art” (University of Pittsburgh, History of Art & Architecture Department)
    2/7/24 
  • Tina Rivers Ryan “Electric Op” (Buffalo AKG Art Museum)
    1/31/24 

• Art History Graduate Student Union Conference - "Ghostly Matters: Crossing the Boundaries XXIX"
  4/12/24 - 4/13/24

Material + Visual World

• The High Desert: Black, Punk, Nowhere: A reading and book signing by James Spooner
  2/24/24
• An artist's talk with Krzysztof Wodiczko
  2/2/24
• Screening of "The Art of Un-War" (2022, dir. Maria Niro) followed by a Q&A with the director
  1/26/24

• Harpur Cinema:
  • Boat People (Ann Hui)
    4/12/24 & 4/14/24
  • Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One (William Greaves)
    4/5/24 & 4/7/24
  • Mon Oncle (Jacques Tati)
    3/22/24 & 3/24/24
  • Ivan’s Childhood (Andrei Tarkovsky)
    3/15/24 & 3/17/24
  • Metropolis (Fritz Lang)
    2/23/24 & 2/25/24
  • Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
    2/16/24 & 2/18/24
  • Lady Snowblood (Toshiya Fujita)
    2/9/24 & 2/11/24
• Visiting Film & Video Artists & Speakers Series:
  • Luther Price 35mm Slides, presented by Tara Nelson
    4/4/24
  • Sheri Wills
    3/26/24
  • Christopher Harris
    3/14/24
  • Rajee Samarasinghe: "Strangers: Films by Rajee Samarasinghe"
    3/12/24 
• A Tribute to Vincent Grenier, Professor Emeritus (1948–2023)
  4/8/24
• "Cut and Scratch" - a brutal avant-garde exhibition by Tomonari Nishikawa and Benjamin Stone
  4/5/24

• Nukporfe​
  5/3/24
• Percussion Ensemble and Steel Drum Band
  4/30/24 
• Piano Ensemble
  4/29/24
• Carmina Burana
  4/28/24
• Senior Recital: Arianna Anderson, Devyn Jenks, Sarah Petrucelli, flute  
  4/27/24          
• Collegium Musicum
  4/27/24 
•  Senior Recital: Riya Bolander
  4/26/24   
•  Junior Recital: Jessica Dugatkin, mezzo and Kyle McAfee, bass
  4/26/24  
• Word of Mouth Art Museum
  4/25/24

• Faculty Recital: Jinah Lee
  4/21/24

• Masters Recital: Matthew Merolla
  4/21/24

• Senior Recital: Esther Nikolic
  4/20/24
•  Masters Recital: Calysta Jacobs
  4/20/24
• Percussion Studio Recital
  4/20/24
•  Harpur Studio Jazz Band
  4/19/24
• Senior Recital: Valerie Lasser, soprano
  4/19/24
• Junior Recital: Abigail Sprague, soprano
  4/19/24
• Harpur Jazz Ensemble
  4/18/24
• Harpur Jazz Ensemble: Quartet
  4/18/24
• Flute Ensemble Concert Casadesus
  4/16/24
• Masters Recital: Kiara Walker
  4/14/24
•  Faculty Recital: Music from Latin America
  4/14/24
• Student Recital: The Time the Axeman Came to Town
  4/13/24
• Wind Symphony Concert
  4/13/24
• Low Brass Recital
  4/13/24
• Masterclass: Andrew Hires, bass-baritone
  4/13/24
• Residency Rectial: Andrew Hires, bass-baritone
  4/12/24
• Violin Studio Recital
  4/11/24    
•  Choir Concert
  4/7/24
• Graduate Recital: Laura Forero, soprano
  4/7/24
• Music NOW!
  4/6/24
• Flute Studio Recital
  4/6/24         
• Opera Scenes
  4/5/24
• University Symphony Orchestra: Concerto Competition Winners
  3/23/24
• Faculty Recital: The Light We Can Hear
  Jeanne Sperber (flute), Zachary Sweet (cello), Michael Salmirs (piano), and Monteith McCollum (sound and video artist)
  3/17/24
• Opera: Gianni Schicchi and Suor Angelica, by G. Puccini
  2/23/24 & 2/25/24
• Momenta at the Art Museum - String Quartet
  2/23/24
• Music at Bartle Library
  2/22/24
• University Wind Symphony (Winter 2024)
  2/17/24
• Operalogue (Gianni Schicchi and Suor Angelica by G. Puccini)
  2/10/24
• Composition  
  2/8/24   
• The Binghamton University Chamber Singers
  1/28/24 
• Kate Dreyfuss, violin
  1/27/24 

• Plays:
  • The Light in the Piazza
    4/11/24 - 4/18/24 
  • Three Sisters
    2/22/24 - 2/25/24
• Dance Recital
  5/5/24
• NATURAL CAUSES - a play in progress
  5/4/24

• Graduate Thesis: Acting project: I Used to Have a Dream (Written, performed, and staged by Alnara Tleugazinova)
  4/19/24-4/21/24

• Alums Ruben Santiago-Hudson and Trey Santiago-Hudson Share Insights on the Craft of Acting
  4/10/24 - 4/11/24 
• Business of Entertainment Talk with Evan Lerner ’96, Executive Vice President of Development and Production, MY Entertainment LLC.
  3/22/24
• In The Works - Choreography
  Andha-The Blind by Jithendra Vidyapathy | Pandemonium by Erica Gundersen
  3/21/24-3/24/24

•  The Magic of Rob Lake
  5/1/24
• Red Hot Chilli Pipers
  3/15/24
• Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra
  2/10/24

Exhibitions:

• Total Eclipse of the Art: A pop-up exhibition celebrating celestial bodies
  4/2/24–4/11/24
• Painted Exchanges: Artists and Paintmakers, 1968-76
  2/1/24–5/11/24
• David Hammons: Street Specific
  2/1/24–5/11/24
• The Intimate Photographic Style of Larry Fink
  2/1/24–5/11/24
• Käthe Kollwitz: Timeless Desolation
  2/1/24–5/11/24

Events:

• Beyond the Field In Plain Sight: the David Hammons BUAM Artist-in-Residence Program
  4/27/24 - 4/28/24
• Family Day
  4/20/24
• Black Arts Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon
  4/18/24
• BUAM Workshops:
  • TikTok Workshop | 4/18/24
  • Body Language | 4/17/24
  • The Modern Artist | 4/11/24
  • Photomotion |4/9/24
• Beyond the Field In Plain Sight: the David Hammons BUAM Artist-in-Residence Program
  4/27/24-4/28/24 
• Ulysses Jackson, Senior Formulator, Golden Artist Colors
  3/16/24
• Leonard Bocour: A Legacy of Generosity
  2/17/24

• CREATIVE WRITING | MUSIC | BU ART MUSEUM
  Word of Mouth
  4/25/24
• A Reading with Poet Lindsay Bernal
  4/5/24
• The Distinguished Writers Series:
  • A Reading & Conversation with Angie Cruz
    3/20/24
• Common Ground Reading Series
  2/23/24 | 4/17/24

• Cookies and Cocoa
  12/5/23 | BU Art Museum
• Gradute Mixer "Greet the Grads"
  12/1/23 | Midway Lanes Bowling

• Jeremy Bolen: "Sulfur Skies" (Rosefsky Gallery)
  8/31 - 9/21/23
• Daesha Devon Harris: "Our Souls Are Kindred with the Tide" (Rosefsky Gallery)
  10/5 - 11/11/23
• "Infinite Realities" (Pop-up Art Show)
  Exhibition by students in the classes Digital Media in Motion, Media and Visual Narrative, and Intermediate Photography (Rosefsky Gallery)
  12/8 - 12/9/23
• Site-Specific Installation class exhibition (Bundy Museum)
  12/1/23 - 1/1/24

Art History 

VizCult: The Visual Culture Forum

• Elizabeth Otto (University at Buffalo): The Bauhaus's Missing Archive: Designers and the Holocaust
  9/13/23
• Ana Howie (Cornell University): Women, Painters, and Water: Gender and Materiality in Genoese Garden Portraits
  10/4/23
• Amanda Gilvin (Davis Museum at Wellesley College): Crafts of Citizenry: Art and the State of Niger
  10/25/23
• John Kuhn (BU): “Shod Their Heads in Their Canoos”: Haudenosaunee Technology and Andrew Marvell’s Appleton House (1650)
  11/15/23

• Harpur Cinema:
  • Vivre Sa Vie (France)
    9/29/23 & 10/1/23
  • The Inheritance (USA)
    10/13/23 & 10/15/23
  • Chungking Express (Hong Kong)
    10/27/23 & 10/29/23
  • Godland (Iceland)
    11/3/23 & 11/5/23
  • Teorema (Italy)
    11/10/23 & 11/12/23
  • Superfest Disability Film Festival
    11/17/23 & 11/19/23
  • Feet in the Water, Head on Fire (Canada)
    12/1/23 & 12/3/23
• Visiting Film/Video Artists Speakers Series:
  • Joshua Gen Solondz
    11/9/23
• BU Film Salon - Screening
  12/1/23
• The 14th annual Student Experimental Film Festival (SEFF) Binghamton
  12/2-12/3/23

• Masters Recital: Min Kim
  8/26/2023
• Voice Area Student Recital Series: Graduate Student Showcase
  9/14/2023         
• Modern Medieval
  10/25/2023      
• Concerto Competition Performance
  11/11/2023      
• Collegium Musicum
  11/12/2023      
• Music NOW!
  11/15/2023      
• Paul Cienniwa, harpsichord
  11/19/2023      
• Low Brass Recital
  11/19/2023      
• Flute Studio Recital
  11/30/2023      
• Hansel & Gretel
  11/30/23, 12/1/23, 12/3/23
• Masters Recital: Kaymber Felton
  12/1/2023         
• Masters Recital: Elizabeth Strickland
  12/2/2023         
• Piano Ensemble Concert
  12/4/2023         
• Flute Ensemble Concert
  12/5/2023         
• Guest Artist: Michael Poll, guitar
  12/6/2023         
• Voice Area Recital
  12/7/23             
• Harpur Studio Jazz
  12/8/2023

• Plays:
  • Envoy
    10/12 - 10/29/23 
  • Bera Handa
    11/16 - 11/19/23

• Step Afrika!
  9/30/23
• Disney Pixar's Coco Live-to-film Concert
  10/12/23
• Ranky Tanky + Very special guest Ms.Lisa Fischer
  11/2/23
• Dakhabrakha
  11/20/23
• Vienna Boys Choir: Christmas in Vienna
  12/7/23

BU Art Museum

Exhibitions:

• Ed Wilson: The Sculptor as Afro-humanist
  9/7/23 – 12/9/23 | Main gallery
• Memory & Soul: Black Art from the Permanent Collection​​​​
  9/7/23 – 12/9/23 | Mezzanine gallery

Events:

• Opening reception: Ed Wilson: The Sculptor as Afro-humanist
  9/7/23
• Join Jeremy Boyle and Derek Scott at WHRW 90.5FM for 'Witches Flu' 
  (this program was offered in conjunction with the exhibition Ed Wilson: The Sculptor as Afro-humanist)
  9/22 – 11/17/23
• BU Family Weekend: Live screen printing and free t-shirts and bags celebrating “Black Art @ BUAM”
  10/6 - 10/7/23
• Homecoming Weekend: Live screen printing and free t-shirts and bags celebrating “Black Art @ BUAM”
  10/14/23
• Fall Community Family Day
  10/21/23
• Ed Wilson: Claiming Black Public Space
  11/9/23
• A lecture with artist Kevin Beasley
  11/16/23
• Night at the Museum (Stress-free Bing)
  12/7/2023

• The Distinguished Writers Series:
  • Victoria Chang
    10/17/23