Senior art students prep final campus exhibition
A tradition continues as Skidmore’s annual studio art major Senior Thesis Exhibition is scheduled May 8–16 at the Tang Teaching Museum. An opening reception is scheduled from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday, May 8. The Department of Art is sponsoring the exhibition.
A total of 44 senior studio art majors will display their work as a capstone to their studies at Skidmore. The department provides courses in numerous studio art disciplines including ceramics, communication design, drawing and painting, digital media, fiber arts, metals, photography, printmaking, and sculpture.
Students whose work will be exhibited are as follows: Jacqueline Avellar, Peter Benson, Samantha Berman, Lucia Bernard, Katherine Biel, Joshua Bird, Shane Boissiere, Madeleine Burkhart, Victoria Byrnes, Calyx Chang, Sarah Dean, Crystal Dicks, Ashley Dolan, Megan Duffy, Alexandra Eldridge, Alec Ezratty, Adam Fisher-Cox, Aria Goodman, Cleo Gordon, Anne Gormley, Zoe Gross, Jonathan Harwood, Emily Iannarilli, Logan Jones, Julian Klein, Anne Kleinbaum, Alexandra Kohl, Elyssa Kohlhagen, Margaret Lefton, Margaret McEachern, Kelly Mulvihill, Jake Musich, Farwa Naqvi, Whitney Packer, Nicole-Kimberly Price, Jean Prounis, Lauren Reilly, Elizabeth Reinhold, Meredith Simonds, Laura Spellman, Lyle Stephenson, Devin Sullivan, Logan Tsugita and Benjamin Turnball.
Student awards in the Art Department this year were as follows: Lyle Stephenson received the John P. Heins Outstanding Senior Thesis Exhibition Award, Adam Fisher-Cox was awarded the Miller/Reed Prize in design, Zoe Gross was awarded the Barbara Greene Wild Award in ceramics, Juan Cardozo was awarded the Pamela Weidenman '72 Memorial Prize in printmaking, Farwa Naqvi was awarded the Dorothy Dryfoos Olsan ’41 Prize in jewelry and metalsmithing, and Logan Jones was awarded the Jesse Solomon Memorial Award in painting.
The studio art faculty selected Jacqueline Avellar, Adam Fisher-Cox, Anne Kleinbaum, Alexandra Kohl, Farwa Naqvi, and Lyle Stephenson to receive senior thesis exhibition honors.
The exhibition and reception are free and open to the public. The hours at the Tang to view the Senior Thesis Art Exhibition are as follows: Friday, May 8, 9 a.m. to 8 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday, May 9 and 10, noon to 5 p.m. Hours during the week of May 11 hours are Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Thursday, 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Friday, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.; and Saturday, noon to 6 p.m.
