Hartwick X SUNY Oneonta Student Show 2025
Hosted by CANO (Community Arts Network Oneonta)
Wilber Mansion, 11 Ford Ave, Oneonta, NY 13820
On view: October 4-24, 2025
Reception: Friday, October 24, 2025, 5-7 p.m.
The Hartwick X SUNY Oneonta Student Show is an ongoing collaboration between Hartwick's Foreman Gallery and the Galleries at SUNY Oneonta on view at CANO in downtown Oneonta. SUNY Oneonta is showing the work of the eight students who were awarded the 2025-2026 Jean Parish Scholarship: Symon Andriyevsky, Sydney Creason, Sean Eaves, Abigail Fish, Jessie Reed, Mordue Reinhardt, Alexis Rockefeller, and Zoe Zappala. Hartwick is showing the work of art students from the Hartwick Senior Class of 2026.
Poster design by Connor Mead.
Voids in Humanity | Nicholas Stein
Project Space Gallery
On view: September 30 – October 25, 2025
Reception: Thursday, October 9, 5-7 p.m.
Voids in Humanity is a solo show of physically manipulated film photographs by Nicholas Stein (SUNY Oneonta ‘25) selected from the Gallery's semesterly Project Open Call. The exhibition consists of a series of twenty-one conceptual photographs that explore the shared human experiences of absence, loss, and emotion. Through the use of vague silhouette figures burnt into the photo negatives, the human form is presented both as a symbol and a personification of memory or trauma. These images act as a conduit for memory and meaning, referencing the emotional weight that various experiences can carry within us. The exhibition will encourage viewers to reflect on how society and they themselves create and neglect these so-called voids.
Poster design by Connor Mead and Nicholas Stein.
Carving Out a Life | Mary Michael Shelley
Martin-Mullen Gallery
On view: August 26 - October 11, 2025
Reception: Thursday, September 25, 5-7 p.m.
Mary Michael Shelley is a self-taught artist based in Ithaca, NY, who has been making acrylic painted bas-relief wood carvings since the mid-1970s. Her meditative scenes, including barns, farmers, and barnyard animals, harken to her childhood on a dairy farm in rural Pennsylvania. Her perceptive diner scenes with depleted yet friendly waitresses and familiar regulars reference her first job as a waitress but are more symbolic of the food for the soul that her art is and depicts. She also carves out scenes of family vacations, pets, and hobbies like sailing. Her time as a social worker, which began in the 1990s, can be found in the empathetic and subtle expressions on the figures’ faces, both human and animal. Despite the personal references that fill her work, Shelley’s art has the significant capacity to reflect moments and feelings that are universal. The scenes she depicts are everyday, sometimes bordering on the mundane, but they are attentive to the fresh and necessary details that make life real in the truest sense of the word. These are the moments that make life worth living: coming together with your various communities, be they family, friends, pets, or coworkers, enjoying a beautiful day with a wide-open sky and perfect clouds. It’s in these moments that we carve out a life, and weather life’s storms. By documenting happy times, Shelley cements them forever in a picture, like a good luck protective amulet, a diary of good times.
Image Credit: Mary Michael Shelley, Leaders of the Flock, Mischief on the Wind, 2022. Courtesy of the artist.
Jean Parish Scholarship: 2025-26
Project Space Gallery
On view: August 26 - September 20, 2025
Reception: Thursday, September 4, 4-6 p.m.
A group exhibition by the student recipients of the 2025-2026 Jean Parish Memorial Scholarship featuring work by Symon Andriyevsky, Sydney Creason, Sean Eaves, Abigail Fish, Jessie Reed, Mordue Reinhardt, Alexis Rockefeller, and Zoe Zappala. It includes multidisciplinary artwork such as photography, painting, sculpture, book arts, and digital art. A selection of work will also be on view alongside work by Hartwick College upperclassmen at CANO (Community Arts Network of Oneonta) from October 4-25, 2025, for the Hartwick X SUNY Oneonta Student Show 2025.
Poster design by Connor Mead.
THE ARC OTSEGO'S VOICE! 21
Martin-Mullen Art Gallery
On view: July 10 - 25, 2025
Summer hours: Monday - Friday, 10-2 p.m.
Reception: Thursday, July 10, 2025, 5-6:30 p.m.
VOICE! is an annual juried art exhibition featuring art from across New York State. It celebrates the creative voices of artists with intellectual and other developmental disabilities. VOICE! reminds us of the power of art to transcend disability and stereotypes to reveal our common ground and celebrate our unique abilities. Learn more about the Voice! 21 event and The Arc Otsego