Tour the BU Art Museum with ISSS

Join ISSS for a tour of the BU Art Museum!  Participants will meet the tour guides outside the Museum (Fine Arts Building, Room 219) in the hallway promptly at 2:00pm. 

If you have any questions about this event, contact Christina MacDavitt, ISSS Programming Coordinator, at cmacdavitt@binghamton.edu. All are welcome!

Information related to the art exhibitions on display: 
The Binghamton University Art Museum will present the exhibition Bonds…Glass Bonds as the main gallery exhibition for Spring Semester 2023. This exhibition, curated by Dr. Marvin Bolt (Curator Emeritus at the Corning Museum of Glass and Research Fellow at Technische Universität Berlin), Dr. Gökhan Ersan (Associate Professor, Art and Design), and Dr. Pamela Smart (Associate Professor, Art History and Anthropology), emerges from their collaborations in Dr. Ersan’s advanced graphic design course and from the collaborative interdisciplinary Materials Matter initiative. Bonds…Glass Bonds will present an array of objects manifesting the atomic bonds that constitute glass and the social bonds that glass enables. Throughout the exhibition space, assemblages of objects will explore the art and science of glass, exemplifying the chemical bonds out of which glass is formed, and the social bonds within which it is enmeshed. 

The exhibition will feature approximately 70 objects, a video component, and text and graphic panels for each group of objects. Visitors will encounter the composition, structure, and properties of natural and artificial glasses, view some glass production techniques, and actively engage with the diverse ways in which glass objects can be used to create social bonds. Throughout the exhibition, visitors will be encouraged to reflect on the role of glass in culture, past and present.

Also opening on February 2 are four exhibitions in our lower galleries. Rhetorics of Documentary was curated by Tom McDonough, Professor of Art History and Adjunct Curator, in honor of the retirement of SUNY Distinguished Professor John Tagg. Also, three exhibitions curated by students are on view: Infinite Interpretations: A Multiplicity of Truths; Picturing the World in Early Modern Europe; and Watching the Clock.

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