Grid Rings by Lynn Batchelder
Lynn Batchelder ’13g
Associate Professor of Metal Lynn Batchelder ’13g was unanimously approved by fellow faculty members as the new chair of the Department of Art, effective fall 2024.
"As chair, I will do my best to be objective and fair in my assessments and communication, be supportive of all faculty, staff and programs, and be organized in the administrative duties and directives as required," said Batchelder. "I see the role as an opportunity for growth in many senses, and a chance to deepen my commitment to the big-picture goals of our department as we look to the future."
Additionally, Batchelder was one of dozens of alumni to be named a 40 Under Forty honoree by the Office of Development and Alumni Relations in 2024.
Earlier this year, Batchelder's work was accepted into the prestigious and highly competitive global exhibition, "Schmuck (Jewellery)," featured at the Internationale Handwerksmesse in Munich, Germany.
Suzanne Stokes, James Fossett, and Adam Mastropaolo
Cave Dogs—a multidisciplinary performing arts group that includes professor and Foundation coordinator Suzanne Stokes, professor and BSVA degree coordinator James Fossett, and Metal instructional support technician Adam Mastropaolo—gave two performances of their latest production, "Liquid States," at the Stissing Center in Pine Plains, NY, on April 27.
Per the group's website, Cave Dogs' performances "consist of innovative, large-scale shadow projections cast onto a screen from props, costumes, puppets and the human body. Cast shadows move in concert with projected video imagery, spoken narrative, and an original soundtrack."
According to the group, "Cave Dogs presents a startling original way of telling a story. Fluid shadows and video images dance in wild imagination across the screen. Each performance promises a healthy dose of the sublime, the exciting, the absurd and the downright fun that results in something infinitely compelling."
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Eunkyung Hwang
Eunkyung Hwang has joined the Art Education program as an assistant professor. According to her faculty profile on Penn State University's website, Hwang "is a dual-title Ph.D. Candidate in Art Education and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Her research focuses on critical disability studies, Asian critical race theory, and feminist art pedagogy. She is currently delving into the stigmatization of women's scars and anti-ableist feminist art pedagogy."
"Freestanding Skillet" by Myra Mimlitsch-Gray
Myra Mimlitsch-Gray
Metal Professor Myra Mimlitsch-Gray's work is included in the international exhibition, "Gone Astray – Hollowware, Jewelry and Utensils on the Edge of Reason," currently at CODA Museum in Apeldoorn, the Netherlands. The exhibition opened on May 17 and runs through September 2024.
According to the museum, the show features works by 29 artists from both the Netherlands and abroad. "In more than 150 objects," the museum stated, "it shows how these makers expand and adapt the traditional rules or clichés of jewelry making, at times diverging from them entirely. It plays provocatively on our expectations concerning objects, encouraging us to look at the world differently—sometimes with a smile, at others with a raised eyebrow, but always firmly shaking the dust from the familiar and comforting."
Read more about the exhibition, and check out more of Mimlitsch-Gray's works featured in the show.
Mimlitsch-Gray's work is also currently part of the exhibition "The Source of Everything," curated by Kate Orne of Upstate Diary. The show is on view at Russel Wright’s Manitoga in Garrison, NY until Aug. 19, 2024.
Jill Parisi-Phillips ’92 ’01g
Spring 2024 marked Associate Professor and Printmaking program head Jill Parisi-Phillips' last semester at SUNY New Paltz, as the double-alum of the printmaking program announced her retirement.
Parisi-Phillips, who earned her BFA and MFA from New Paltz in 1992 and 2001, respectively, was celebrated on May 17 with an Ink and Dye Garden Seedling Planting party on the outdoor sculpture patio at the Fine Arts Building.
Parisi-Phillips began her career at SUNY New Paltz as a lecturer in 2006 before serving as an assistant professor from 2006 to 2007. She has served as an associate professor since 2014.
We wish Parisi-Phillips a well-deserved and joyous retirement!
Michael Asbill and Emily Puthoff
Sculpture professors Michael Asbill and Emily Puthoff teamed up to give a "Carving Community Cross-Pollination Workshop" for the inaugural MFA Composium in Fall 2023. They shared their expertise and research into wood carving, milling, pollinators, and community-engaged social practice.
Works by Amelia Tolke featured in "Charms from Charm City" (left) and Albany International Airport's "Knockout Gorgeous" (right)
Amelia Toelke
Visiting Assistant Professor of Metal Amelia Toelke’s work is part of the exhibition "Knockout Gorgeous" at the Albany International Airport. Her works will also be included in the show "Charms from Charm City," which will be on view during this year’s annual Society of North American Goldsmith conference in San Diego, CA.
Rimer Cardillo, "Luciérnaga fantástica (black and yellow)," 1971 / Lithograph on paper
Rimer Cardillo
Emeritus professor of printmaking Rimer Cardillo's "Moving Object Series," a collection of five lithographs, is currently included in the April 2024 exhibition "There is no there there" at the Museum für Moderne Kunst (MMK) in Frankfurt, Germany. Additionally, 20 other works by Cardillo are included in the show, which runs through September 2024.
