HVCC Fine Art & Digital Media Students Explore Their Daily Commute

February 4, 2025

“How We Get Here,” a collaborative, all-media exhibition, opens Feb. 6

Members of the Student Art League, Graphic Design Club and Darkroom Club at Hudson Valley Community College are working together to present “How We Get Here,” an exhibition featuring work in all media that opens Thursday, Feb. 6 in The Teaching Gallery on the Troy campus. An opening reception will be 4 to 6 p.m. in the gallery on the ground floor of the Administration building.

For “How We Get Here,” club members were invited to explore and document their daily commute to HVCC, capturing the experiences, emotions and routines that define travel to and from school, according to Professor Tara Fracalossi, director of The Teaching Gallery. The Student Art League and Darkroom Club members will exhibit personal works ranging from poetry to video, drawing, painting, photography and other media, while Graphic Design Club members have undertaken a reinterpretation of the ground-breaking and popular Volkswagen Beetle ad campaign of the 1960s. The students’ ads aim to retain the wit and simplicity that made the original ads memorable.

“How We Get Here” will remain on view through Saturday, March 1. Gallery hours, open free to the public, are 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Tuesday, Thursday and Friday, 1 - 7 p.m. Wednesday and noon - 4 p.m. Saturday. Please visit www.hvcc.edu/teachinggallery for more information.

Student Art League members A.J. Robert and Sara-Anne Blackwell are co-coordinators of the exhibit. Officers are Mathias Mojallali and Perci Denley, co-presidents; Iris Robert, secretary; Meredith Bingham, treasurer. Graphic Design Club officers are Aujai Tomlinson, president; Summer Brookover, vice president; Aries Raphael, secretary; Jeanine Mahony and Erin Sweeney, co-treasurers. Darkroom Club officers are Ava DelVecchio, president; Estelle Ayotte, vice president; Anthony G. Burt, treasurer; Marlowe Cilia, secretary. Faculty advisors are Assistant Professor Justin Baker (Darkroom Club), Assistant Professor Jason Kates Van Staveren (Graphic Design Club) and Professors Thomas Lail and Fracalossi (Student Art League).