From the artist's website
Nancy Catandella ’85g
Adjunct Lecturer of Art History Nancy Catandella ’85g (Painting) announced an upcoming two-person exhibition at Green Kill—a peer-to-peer art and performance space in Kingston, NY—opening September 6 and closing October 25. Catandella says the artworks presented at the show will portray spirit animals with portraits of the people they are affiliated with.
The artist’s reception will take place 5-7 p.m. Saturday, September 6 at 229 Greenkill Avenue in Kingston.
Learn more about Catandella at the artist's website.
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William Rhoads
Professor Emeritus of Art History William B. Rhoads will be an honoree at Art Mid-Hudson’s 13th Annual Ulster County Executive’s Arts Awards event on June 11. Rhoads will receive the award in the Impact in the Arts category to acknowledge his ample, meticulously researched, and beautifully written publications on the architecture and other arts of the Mid-Hudson Valley and his generous support of museums, historical societies, colleagues, and other institutions and individuals.
Learn more about the Ulster County Executive's Arts Award and the event at Arts Mid-Hudson's website.
Wolf at the CAA conference on Benjamin Wigfall. Photo by Penny Dell
Reva Wolf
Professor Reva Wolf organized and chaired a session of the College Art Association (CAA) annual conference on the artist and community activist Benjamin Wigfall on Feb. 13. The session also included the Dorsky Museum's Neil C. Trager Director Anna Conlan and Manager of Education and Visitor Experience Zachary Bowman. Learn more on the SUNY New Paltz News website.
Wolf gave a paper at the 55th annual meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, held online in March. Her paper, “Pitchforks and Fans: The Motín de Aranjuez in Visual Propaganda,” was about visual representations of political upheaval in early 19th-century Spain, focusing on the symbolism of social class contained in them. It was presented in the panel “¡Basta ya! Citizen Protest in the Iberian Atlantic and Pacific Worlds,” sponsored by the Ibero-American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.
In April, Wolf gave a presentation on campus with Victoria St. George of the Department of Communication Disorders, titled “Visual Sound and Deaf Artists: Goya to Grigely." The presentation was part of the student-run Art History Association’s annual lecture series, which in 2024–2025 focused on the intersections of Disability Studies and Art History. Wolf and St. George discussed the fascinating phenomenon of deaf artists creating “visual sound.” Their conversation included works by Francisco de Goya, Christine Sun Kim, Nancy Rourke, and Joseph Grigely. They also explored connections of this art to the histories of sign language and of hearing artists’ conceptualizations of sonic imagery.
