Current and Upcoming Exhibits

The two-story, 2000-square-foot Teaching Gallery presents work in all media by professional artists and is open to the public as well as the campus community.

How We Get Here

On View: Feb. 6 - March 1, 2025
Opening Reception: Thursday, Feb. 6 from 4 - 6 p.m. in the Teaching Gallery
Gallery Hours: Tuesday, Thursday and Friday, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.; Wednesday, 1 - 7 p.m.; Saturday, Noon - 4 p.m.

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.

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.

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).

Garden: A site specific installation by Thomas Lail

Ongoing in the Administration Building Atrium

Garden, Professor Thomas Lail’s oversized rendering of a William Morris wallpaper pattern, scales the trellis of the Administration Building’s glass atrium, reflecting on the history of glassed-in winter gardens, cultivated nature, and the dream of Utopian architectures of transparency. The installation project is supported by the Hudson Valley Community College Foundation’s Stephen L. Hyatt Fine Arts Fund and installed with assistance from the college’s Graphics Department and Physical Plant, and NoName Graphics, Troy.