At the Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery:

Someday Is Now: The Art of Corita Kent
January 19 - July 28, 2013

Someday is Now: The Art of Corita Kent is the first full-scale survey of more than thirty years of work by Corita Kent (1918–1986). A teacher at Immaculate Heart College in Los Angeles and a civil rights, feminist, and anti-war activist, Kent was one of the most popular American graphic artists of the 1960s and 1970s. Throughout her rich and varied career, she made thousands of posters, murals, and signature serigraphs that combine her passions for faith and politics. Reflecting larger questions and concerns of the 1960s, her images remain iconic symbols of that turbulent time. Kent’s earnest, collaborative approach to art-making—combining faith, politics, and teaching with messages of acceptance and hope—continues to be a potent influence for many artists working today.

Elevator Music 23 Yoko Ono: Listen
January 26 - May 19, 2013

The only sound that exists to me is the sound of the mind.” Yoko Ono, 1966

Listen presents a selection of music by pioneering artist, musician, and activist Yoko Ono (b. 1933). For over six decades, Ono’s powerful body of work has challenged and dissolved boundaries between visual art, music, performance, poetry, and activism. At the core of Ono’s art lies an exploration of and conviction in the imaginative, boundless capacity of the human mind.

Opener 24 Carrie Moyer: Pirate Jenny
January 26 - May 19, 2013

For the past two decades, Carrie Moyer’s paintings have boldly merged political imagery, abstraction, and unapologetic visual pleasure. Complex and seductive, her paintings layer overlapping, biomorphic forms, vibrant colors, and a diversity of textures. They are also richly loaded with a range of historical, stylistic, and physical references that include Color Field, Social Realist, and Surrealist paintings, 1960s and ’70s counter culture graphics, 1970s feminist art, and bodily forms and fluids. Exploring the full capabilities of acrylic paint—what she calls the ugly step-child of oil paint—Moyer often works on the floor, pouring, rolling, stippling, mopping, and hand-working the paint, as well as adding sections of glitter.

Senior Thesis Exhibit
May 10-19, 2013

This exhibit showcases outstanding works in all media by senior studio-art  majors.

10:00 am -
12 pm

Periclean Honors Forum: Recognition for Graduating Seniors and Periclean Scholar Awards Ceremony

Helene Filene Ladd Concert Hall, Arthur Zankel Music Center

Held annually, the Periclean Scholar Awards competition recognizes excellence by awarding up to four prizes to seniors for distinguished projects in all disciplines.  Periclean Scholar Awards recipients share the honor of this achievement at a ceremonial presentation of the project open to the College community.  Following these presentations, Honors Forum members who are graduating seniors will receive their recognition medals. A reception will follow to celebrate graduating HF seniors and Periclean Scholar Awards recipients.

Senior Varsity Athlete Recognition Luncheon

Intramural Gym, Sports Center

By invitation.

Phi Beta Kappa Initiation

Gannett Auditorium

Induction ceremony for new members. Faculty, staff, students, and their families are welcome to attend. Reception follows.

Class of 2013 Parents Fund Brick Dedication Ceremony

Case Center Plaza (Rain plan - Case Center)

A brief ceremony for seniors, families, and friends to dedicate the Class of 2013 brick pathway, given by the families of the Class of 2013 in honor of their graduating seniors. Each brick is engraved with the name of the student whose parents participate in the Class of 2013 Parents Fund.

For more information about Class of 2013 Parents Fund, call Ann Dejnozka, Director of Family Leadership Giving, at 518-580-5635 or visit cms.skidmore.edu/parents/project.cfm. 

Friends of the Presidents Student Reception

Scribner House, 791 North Broadway
By invitation only.

The Friends of the Presidents Society (FOP) was founded in 1966 to honor the College's most generous supporters, who set an example of leadership in annual giving.  The Society honors Skidmore's founder and presidents with six categories of membership.  An FOP wall of honor is located in the Class of 1967 Lobby in Palamountain Hall.

President's Reception

Scribner House, 791 North Broadway

President Philip A. Glotzbach and Marie B. Glotzbach greet seniors, their guests, trustees, faculty, and staff at their home, historic Scribner House.

Breakfast

Murray-Aikins Dining Hall

Families, friends, and seniors are welcome as guests of the College.

Commencement Procession Formation

Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Spa State Park

Faculty members and platform party members form processional.

Audience members are asked to be seated by this time.

102nd Commencement Exercises

Saratoga Performing Arts Center