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First Friday: The Voracious Eye

November 1 @ 12:00 pm - 7:30 pm

WHEN: Friday, November 1, 2024, 12 – 5pm

WHERE: Opalka Gallery, Sage Albany campus

COST: FREE

BUS: #114–100, 10–100, 106–13

Curated by Joan Grubin with artists Molly Heron, Nancy Shaver & Wolf, Ilene Sunshine, Christopher Werner, and Allan Wexler. Through discrete installations, each artist’s work is presented in dialogue with artifacts rich with personal meaning that they’ve curated from their private lives, offering a glimpse into each artist’s visual thinking.

The Voracious Eye

FRI Nov. 1 FIRST FRIDAY, Walkthrough at 5:30, Reception 6:00 to 7:30pm. With jazz from the Alan Thomson Trio. In conjunction with the Russell Sage Department of Visual and Performing Arts’ Fire/Light Night. Students and faculty from the Department of Visual & Performing Arts at Russell Sage College will present the 9th Annual Fire/Light Night outside the gallery on the Albany campus. The event will include a demonstration of ceramic firing techniques, and 3-story animation projects shown on buildings around Opalka Gallery.
THU Nov. 21 7pm Stage & Stanza, hosted by Carol Durant with RSC Theatre Institute Director David Baecker. Conversations with regional creatives. Guests: Amelia Paul, actress, poet, Underground Railroad Education Center and David K. Wilson, author/screenwriter
FRI Dec. 6 FIRST FRIDAY, Gallery open until 8pm, Live music in the gallery from 6pm to 7pm with Nancy Donnelly Duo!
SAT Dec. 7 2pm, Conversation and closing reception with The Voracious Eye curator and artists

Details

Date:: November 1
Time:: 12:00 pm - 7:30 pm