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Jeffrey Gibson, the artist behind the Wellin Museum’s latest exhibition, attended an Artist Discussion in the Barrett Lab Theater on Sept. 8 as part of the opening events. Accompanied by the museum’s curator, Tracey Adler, Gibson described his experience in pulling together the exhibition. “It was challenging for a number of reasons, and part of it is because of the high level of details being considered.” Gibson works with materials ranging from paintings and sculptures to garments and film.

Elaborately adorned helmets, large-scale sculptural garments draped on tipi poles, beaded panels, tapestries, weavings, abstract geometric paintings and a new film greet visitors in an outpouring of color to the Wellin Museum’s fall exhibition.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Art Max Ferro and his wife have been volunteering at a community project called Handshake.City in downtown Utica. They are painting a mural to be inaugurated at the first Handshake.City event on Aug. 25 called The Downtown Getdown. Handshake.City is a new park with shipping containers for vendors and events.

Participating in the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art docent program has opened quite a few doors this summer for Hamilton students including at the Smithsonian, Guggenheim, American Museum of Natural History, Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Institute of Contemporary (ICA) Art in Boston.

The Art Department recently presented a panel discussion on “Graduate School in the Arts.” The panel was moderated by Professor of Art Rebecca Murtaugh.

The work of 21 senior art majors will be featured in an exhibition at the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art, May 3-20. An opening reception will take place on Thursday, May 3, from 4 to 6 p.m. The exhibition and reception are free and open to the public. “After Image” will exhibit the work of Caitlin Becker, Natalie Burkardt, Claire Callahan, Rachel Cooley, Tulia Day, Saige Devlin, Sung Hwan Hong, Cassie Howard, Hanna Jerome, James Larson, Ella MacVeagh, Mackenzie Morshead, Paula Ortiz, Marisabel Rey, Kevin Rodriguez, Julia Smith, Elizabeth Spangenthal, Julie Suk, Maura Torres, Catherine Weppler, and Charlotte Zee. The students’ work includes drawing, painting, printmaking, photography, sculpture, video, and installation-based work. The Wellin Museum of Art is open Tuesday through Sunday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is free.

Raye Leith ’78 will exhibit her work at the Georgetown Spring Art Walk in Washington, D.C., on Saturday, May 5.

Paula Ortiz ’18 will explore practices of active meditation in India, Japan, New Zealand, and Bolivia next year as the recipient of a Watson Fellowship.

An exhibition of work from Associate Professor of Art Robert Knight’s Transnational are on display at Millbrook School in Millbrook, N.Y., through April 27.

Alumni have two fellow alumni to cheer for as they watch this year’s Academy Awards presentation on Sunday, March 4.