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2025 Art & Design BFA Exhibition

April 10th – April 24th, 2025

Elsie B. Rosefsky Memorial Art Gallery, FA 259

The eighteen graduating Binghamton University Art & Design BFA students will feature their works in the exhibition Convergence. The exhibition opens to the public April 10th, with an opening reception at 4:30 pm, and will remain on view until April 24th. The exhibition is free and open to the public.

Convergence is a tribute to years of growth, experimentation, and refinement. It symbolizes not just an ending, but a powerful moment of synthesis between these artists before they progress on to their next chapters. It highlights the conjunction of unique perspectives that define this graduating class. Convergence suggests both a meeting point and a moment of transformation—where individual paths merge, yet retain their distinct influence.

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 2025 BFA artists are: Kimora Bedeau, Shane Conklin, Sammy Feng, Emily Gangloff, Ashley Gibs, Haley Keener, Simon Liebskind, Margo MacWilliams, Alexis Magera, Andrew Nieves, Emily O'Reilly, Lucciana Robertson, Elizabeth Serjantov, Anh Sciscent, Mayna Sengsouvanh, Amiah Shoultes, Daisy Solis, and Anna Stacey.

iLuminate

Thursday, April 24, 2025

Osterhout Concert Theater | 6 p.m.

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From the moment the lights fade to darkness, you are transported into another world, another dimension, where the music moves you and the visuals are unlike anything you’ve ever seen. Welcome to iLuminate, named “Best New Act in America” by America’s Got Talent in 2011. A fantastic fusion of cutting edge technology and dance, iLuminate features a cast of the country’s top dancers performing to energetic music, including top pop and rock hits from the 1970s through the 1990s, a little jazz, a little Latin, a little hip-hop, and more. The dancers are outfitted with customized LED suits synced to iLuminate’s proprietary software to create extraordinary lighting effects with each of the phenomenally choreographed dance moves.

4/25-4/27/25- Sarraounia, Med Hondo, 1986, 122min.

Director Med Hondo unflinchingly depicts the horrors ofcolonial occupation and conflict with a realistic, epic style, to adaptAbdoulaye Mamani’s Sarraounia, a historical novel about the West African Battleof Lougou. With an incisive eye toward the psychology of warfare, Hondo chartsthe brutal arrogance of French commanders Captain Paul Voulet and LieutenantJulien Chanoine, as well as the fierce determination of Sarraounia, the titularAzna queen, a revered leader who inspires her people to fight the French armywhen most of the surrounding tribes have made deals with the invaders or joinedtheir forces. Ready to meet her adversaries on the battlefield to defend hertribe and its way of life, native oral history claims she was a witch who couldhurl fire at the invaders and any crops that were blazed to ash regrewovernight with more than enough food to keep the warriors going. Rarelyscreened today, Sarraounia remains one of the greatest experiments inhistorical-surrealism to come from Africa.

World-renowned Costa Rican choreographer, Rogelio López, teams up with BU faculty and students to create an entirely new collaborative production. López, who has dedicated his career to movement and the investigation of it as a universal human expression, will be exploring the theme of "the person and nature" in this original dance-theater work.

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World-renowned Costa Rican choreographer, Rogelio López, teams up with BU faculty and students to create an entirely new collaborative production. López, who has dedicated his career to movement and the investigation of it as a universal human expression, will be exploring the theme of "the person and nature" in this original dance-theater work.

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World-renowned Costa Rican choreographer, Rogelio López, teams up with BU faculty and students to create an entirely new collaborative production. López, who has dedicated his career to movement and the investigation of it as a universal human expression, will be exploring the theme of "the person and nature" in this original dance-theater work.

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4/25-4/27/25- Sarraounia, Med Hondo, 1986, 122min.

Director Med Hondo unflinchingly depicts the horrors ofcolonial occupation and conflict with a realistic, epic style, to adaptAbdoulaye Mamani’s Sarraounia, a historical novel about the West African Battleof Lougou. With an incisive eye toward the psychology of warfare, Hondo chartsthe brutal arrogance of French commanders Captain Paul Voulet and LieutenantJulien Chanoine, as well as the fierce determination of Sarraounia, the titularAzna queen, a revered leader who inspires her people to fight the French armywhen most of the surrounding tribes have made deals with the invaders or joinedtheir forces. Ready to meet her adversaries on the battlefield to defend hertribe and its way of life, native oral history claims she was a witch who couldhurl fire at the invaders and any crops that were blazed to ash regrewovernight with more than enough food to keep the warriors going. Rarelyscreened today, Sarraounia remains one of the greatest experiments inhistorical-surrealism to come from Africa.

By David Ives 
Directed by Lydia Korneffel
Advised by Lisa Rothe

Performances:

May 1 at 8pm
May 2 at 8pm
May 3 at 8pm
May 4 at 2pm

Location: FA 196 / Studio B
Price: FREE

By David Ives 
Directed by Lydia Korneffel
Advised by Lisa Rothe

Performances:

May 1 at 8pm
May 2 at 8pm
May 3 at 8pm
May 4 at 2pm

Location: FA 196 / Studio B
Price: FREE

World-renowned Costa Rican choreographer, Rogelio López, teams up with BU faculty and students to create an entirely new collaborative production. López, who has dedicated his career to movement and the investigation of it as a universal human expression, will be exploring the theme of "the person and nature" in this original dance-theater work.

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By David Ives 
Directed by Lydia Korneffel
Advised by Lisa Rothe

Performances:

May 1 at 8pm
May 2 at 8pm
May 3 at 8pm
May 4 at 2pm

Location: FA 196 / Studio B
Price: FREE

By David Ives 
Directed by Lydia Korneffel
Advised by Lisa Rothe

Performances:

May 1 at 8pm
May 2 at 8pm
May 3 at 8pm
May 4 at 2pm

Location: FA 196 / Studio B
Price: FREE

World-renowned Costa Rican choreographer, Rogelio López, teams up with BU faculty and students to create an entirely new collaborative production. López, who has dedicated his career to movement and the investigation of it as a universal human expression, will be exploring the theme of "the person and nature" in this original dance-theater work.

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Join us for the 2nd Festival of the Arts kickoff 7:30-9:30 p.m. on Wednesday, May 7 in the Grand Corridor and Memorial Courtyard of the Arts Building!

We will have performances and visual art from our departments, with a wide variety of live music, free food, cinema in a truck, screen-printing your own t-shirts, theatre, animations on buildings, and much more, all in and around the grand corridor.

Friday, May 9 we return for a long-form experience, with works from our departments throughout the arts building! A great opportunity to explore the work our students have been creating and enjoy time together in the Arts Building.

*Schedule subject to change!

Note: All events are tentative and subject to change. Attendees are encouraged to check for updates closer to the event date. All events at the School of the Arts building (FA- Fine Arts in the map) unless otherwise noted.

Join us for the 2nd Festival of the Arts kickoff 7:30-9:30 p.m. on Wednesday, May 7 in the Grand Corridor and Memorial Courtyard of the Arts Building!

We will have performances and visual art from our departments, with a wide variety of live music, free food, cinema in a truck, screen-printing your own t-shirts, theatre, animations on buildings, and much more, all in and around the grand corridor.

Friday, May 9 we return for a long-form experience, with works from our departments throughout the arts building! A great opportunity to explore the work our students have been creating and enjoy time together in the Arts Building.

*Schedule subject to change!

Note: All events are tentative and subject to change. Attendees are encouraged to check for updates closer to the event date. All events at the School of the Arts building (FA- Fine Arts in the map) unless otherwise noted.